text: For someone claiming "failures," you sure don't delineate what those "failures" are, nor do you propose to fix them, aside electing people from your own political party, which is both sophomoric and laughable.   I propose trimming the fat now:   we reduce all of "Social Work" to only and exclusively "protecting families and children," and you and I are in agreement.  Yes?
  
  ....But that's not what's going to happen, is it.  The ever-inflating self-mandate of the social worker grows every day.  They now charge themselves with "helping anyone, anywhere, with every segment of their lives."  Their rice bowl grows and their self-proclaimed "purpose" grows, much like other segments of government-run bureaucracies.  And once imposed- they will never be cut, else cries of victimhood arise and political finger-pointing, as you are now.