If you build it, they will come.

Remember the movie, The Field of Dreams? "If you build it, they will come." 

A few hobos set up an encampment under an overpass in Amarillo. Faith City Ministries began to donate to the group. Guess what? More and more hobos showed up. Now there's a problem with people demanding services and harassing donors. They've also been stealing and getting drunk. 

That's what happened with LBJ's War on Poverty. You provide programs for a few people who need them, and lo and behold, you get a mob with their hands out. The poverty rate when LBJ's war began was 10.5%.  Now it's 15.1%. We've grown a couple of generations who think taking a government handout is the norm, and now they're all "occupying" and demanding their "rights" to more and more largesse. I don't think what we're doing is working. Do you?

"Amarillo tent city prompts talk of ban." The Dallas Morning News; May 24, 2012; p. 3A.