When it's staring us in the face on the corner of the street, the problem or the solution seems obvious. When you peel back the layers of our economics, and policy, it's somewhat mind boggling....we call it welfare for people, but "incentives" for businesses....we proclaim free markets etc, but we are a heavily "subsidized/incentivized" economy. You can't have your cake and eat it too, so in general the US has leveraged obtaining goods and services from outside our borders, not over used extractive industries on our soil, and propped up our economy to be a very wealthy nation, but to that end, corporate profits drive numerous policy decisions. Hell, as much as I might take issue with wall street, gone are the days of company pensions and most of us are counting on some IRA/401k etc which means you need the total market to succeed if I ever want to see the daylight of retirement...So whether it's the health care industry, the banking industry, the energy industry, the agriculture industry, the real estate industry, construction industry, the auto industry, the airlines industry etc, you can find policy/incentives/subsidy/tax breaks etc that help that business, and our economy is so interconnectes that you risk the domino effect if you let something fail....so whether it's welfare for people on the corner or welfare for an industry, our economics are so complex, and currently the tax and political system is so complex a major overhaul is not going to happen. The degree of mental health issues in the homeless population is so pervasive yet no one wants to "invest" in that. Yeah, when you can make $22 bucks an hr at a fast food place it's hard for me to wrap my head around why someone can't go start working. But we must at least acknowledge that a large portion of our tax dollars go to industry, and we decide to "value" that and not call it"welfare for a business". I work in 3 different industries that derive benefits from the current economic system, and I am thankful it has worked for my family in an honest, above the table fashion, but I won't pretend that it's not an "entitlement" that industry lobbies and defends with vigor in the political system.....it's a very complex social and economic system, and so I just don't buy pointing at homeless people as "the problem", they may not be helping their situation and they have to take responsibility for decisions, but the whole thing seems much more complex than what we see on the street corner.