Want to know why Alabama is so screwed?? See below one single comment out of the many on that article
http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/..._most-comments
We could try this thing called societal evolution and let nature take its course by allowing the fittest to survive.
What do I mean? Cut off all social welfare programs from the state's rolls. If you want to eat, you'll either rely on private charity, dumpster dive, or actually produce.
Sure, a few useful people and some kids will perish, but hell, that's been the story in Africa for years.