[Butch Cassidy Slept Here]

History has shown that the vacuum of extreme poverty, and a weak to non-existant government, is almost always filled. True, within the next ten years, the American flag could well be burned in the streets of Port au Prince. But the result of doing nothing now is the near certainty of having a Somalia-type "non-government," headed-up by drug lords or who knows what, near US shores.

As to the people living under bridges: Until those living to the east and south of Dallas County stop voting Republican that will continue.