A story to make you think

I came across this story today and I just had to comment on it (Click on title for link.) Here we have a gentlemen who openly admits making 25/hr by..........pan handling. The sign he holds says " OLD-TIRED-SICK-HUNGRY CREATIVE BROKE. "
Now I'm no financial genius but making 25/hr hardly characterizes somebody as "broke." Nor is he sick or hungry. This guy makes his money by deceiving us. Now I will give him credit for being brutally honest but this proves the problems with our welfare system. This guy isn't paying taxes, is receiving free health care and is able to eat for free via churches, shelters and food stamps. I would even wager that if this guy wanted to get a university education he would probably qualify to have a full ride grant. All of this while making 25 dollars and hour. WOW! I bring all of this up because (in my humble opinion) the government obviously can't control our welfare system so why would they be able to control our housing crisis. I'm curious to hear opinions on this.