See, you are an almost perfect representative of what most reasonably conservative/libertarian people think has gone wrong. You EXPECT the federal government to step in and just magically solve the problem. You BLAME them for not doing so. YOU are the problem. No one missed a step, I think we see through you perfectly fine. Just like individuals are accountable for their own decisions and actions, states are accountable for the shit they fuck up. The federal government does NOT have a mandate to go around solving every state and cities problems. That's why they have their own damn government.