Modern day welfare is designed to save the financial viability of the country, too. If it were taken away, you'd see how chaotic things got.
The New Deal was welfare. And, Italian-Americans didn't turn it down.
"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea
