Entrenched system that hurts the poor

In Illinois you have one giant city, Chicago, Democrat controlled for years, and an expert at trapping people with patronage. We’re headed that way in Ohio, with a number of good-sized, major cities, all Democrat controlled; Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati are the biggies, then Dayton, Toledo, Akron/Canton and Youngstown. At one time these were all job producers. Now they are tax traps and sink holes for federal block grants, ringed by wealthy suburbs. I don’t know about the other cities, but in Columbus, The Ohio State University just keeps gobbling up the land and areas of deteriorating housing stock, tearing down residences, displacing the low income, and then calling it progress when the yuppies move in and the poor move out where there is no transportation for jobs. Really, liberals (there are very few academics who are not liberals)  have invented a crazy system of feeding off the less fortunate, poorly educated, mentally ill, and addicted. Many are pushed out of the neighborhoods where they have friends, family and social resources into surrounding areas, the rest just become homeless and then more grants become available to take care of them and more PhDs are written at OSU on the social problems. All the while, conservatives are blamed for a crazy system that keeps the academics, government bureaucrats and non-profits in cushy, well-paid jobs!