Throwing all the bums in the Brother Francis Shelter and feeding them in soup kitchens may keep them breathing, but certainly not alive.  I want to see them with "a life".   What you call the "Red Nose Inn" model of welfarism has shown repeatedly (and in study after study) to be more successful at turning lives around than the hard nosed Right Wing pull yourself up by your boot-straps approach.  In total effect it is also far less expensive as those that become more self-capable rely less on the system.  A multitude of studies and real life examples in other large cities shows this to be true.  This success of compassionate care, is a real dichotomy for the Right Wingers and many Christians, who want to claim the mantle of righteousness and compassion when it doesn't cost them anything, but have a tough, by your nuts approach for the struggling.  A more effective use of your criticisms would be to attack the rampant and corrupt corporate welfarism teeming in our State Gov't.