Believe or not, I wasn’t commenting on the lending aid to our fellow men, but in the oddness of the manner of supposed aid given, the results it’s proven to give, and people’s seeming belief that was has failed elsewhere will succeed in America.

But…People can become less – or rather be lessened – from receiving aid when that aid becomes a dependency and provides no reasonable hope of returning to self-reliance and independence.

We are all called to help our fellow man, but sometimes we are not wise enough to know how best to do that.

Clearly, government is the worst possible avenue to effect social change, with few exceptions.

The failure of government intervention however, only really shows the inadequacy of this particular mode of action.

We all fail. No one is immune.

We all need a hand up from time to time. This does not mean that we are less than the one that gives us that hand, only that it is our turn.