When addressing the ongoing issues of homelessness, crime and filth in their cities, local politicians and bureaucrats will simply throw up their hands saying that these are extremely difficult problems bordering on the unsolvable… and so they persist. A recent book written by a team of career investigators and litigators provides evidence for the notion that homelessness, crime and filth are actually being actively promoted by government so that international drug cartels may flourish. “Report to the Governor” by John Thaler became available late last month and it provides evidence for the notion that things are the way they are in many American cities because international drug cartels are exerting a tremendous corrupting influence over American government and that these Third World-like conditions are a direct result of this influence. This entire article quotes heavily from Thaler’s book.