We focus heavily on food stamps and TANIF in today's discussion, but what about the theft that limits the sustainability of your grocery stores? The limitations of business are directly correlated with the impact on how we care for our community. These issues arise from the cultural foundations we produce through our institutions, which structure our surroundings, and from the patterns the population uses to sustain itself. Both create their environment through each other; individual financial patterns produce the taxation that sustains our government's financial structure. In Colorado, services such as alcohol, drug usage, and mental/health services produce and are acts of deviance that are heavily regulated, taxed, and used by the individual to obfuscate the harms of their life. These are also primary producers of tax revenue in the state of Colorado. With over 400 breweries producing 13 billion in economic revenue, 61,262 jobs, and 4 billion in wages in Colorado (Kelseynistel, 2024). The production and sales of alcohol are a pillar of Colorado's financial structure. This is further offset by its association with alcohol and mental/addiction services within the state. From 16,000 DUI arrests (Colorado Department of Transportation, 2025) and .26% of the population drinking alcohol, and 19% of Colorado's adults binge drinking, let alone the countless demographic deaths and other issues from the Colorado culture of alcohol. With 55% of those classified as AUD having a presence of both mental health disorders and SUD (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism [NIAAA], 2022) sustaining the triangle of SUD, AUD, and mental illness. This makes Colorado second-to-last, ranking 50th of 51 states in the United States. With a ranking of 47 of 51 states with serious suicidal ideation, even with a high ranking of being top 10 in available health care workers and 17th in accessibility. Federal funds for mental health services in 2024 reached a high of 55% and in 2025, a low of 47%. Colorado has sustained itself through institutions that seek to support its population and function as acts of survival, while also producing these harms through the same structures that sustain it. This leaves the remainder to the state to fund its abundant social services, which place an increasing burden on taxpayers. This cyclical issue of state dependency on social hardship functions as a latent harm, draining funding from the population and from social prosperity systems. A mission to meet the needs of its people also arises from the harmful factors that lead to the moment's effects. Homelessness in Colorado is a result of complacency in the system, dependent on the harms and services provided. This includes an increase in the population’s ability to live, eat, grow, develop, and access food, wages, and education, rather than sustaining the state’s social development foundation. As the state takes on additional responsibilities amid an already heavy deficit of over one billion dollars, it places greater burdens on its population. Further bends the population's safety in the fight against businesses and institutions that fund fight. Making it more important for the individual and the systems of dependency to have introspection into the cultural patterns we produce.