>>>If you subsidize cheese production, you get more cheese.
>>>If you subsidize bad behavior, you get more bad behavior.
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>If you starve whole segments of population, they riot. You can bring in armed forces, but incarceration generally is more expensive than Welfare even if you put the whole ghetto into concentration camps. And since the army and Police often are drawn from populations not too dissimilar from those desperate rioters, you have an issue if the proposed answer is to shoot 'em up.

Nobody is suggesting starvation.
I was suggesting that maybe my dear cousin's lives would have turned out better if they had learned how to hold onto a job, instead of being "entitled."
Besides, our rioters seem more interested in big screen TVs than bread.

My father is a homeless guy who has had plenty of soup kitchen and Salvation Army meals.
He is mildly mentally ill - electroshock will do that to someone.
Not a danger to anybody, and not sick enough to put away.
Not a thing anybody can do to force him to live the life you and I live.
I give money to the Salvation Army, I don't know what else to do.
In any case - he gets enough to eat.