Good Intentions: Bad Results John Stossel

Government makes most things worse.

• Lyndon Johnson launched a War on Poverty; Richard Nixon a War on Drugs.

Both had good intentions, but their "wars" do more harm than good...
That's because the handouts encourage people to become dependent. 

Welfare even discouraged marriage because a single parent gets a bigger check.
As a result, welfare created something never seen before in America: a permanent "underclass" -- generations raised without fathers, generations who stay poor and passive...
The War on Drugs also had unintended consequences.
"When you launch a war on drugs ... you create huge profits for cartels because there's so much at stake," says Brook.
That led to more illegal drugs, and "massive corruption among police."...

• Brook's point is not that people shouldn't try to help the poor, the addicted and the planet; it's that individuals do it better than government ever will.
• "All these government programs that regulate and control, they institutionalize mediocrity at best."