We need something else besides what has been proposed.
Were we in the 18th century, again, and in Europe, I might invoke a principle, noblesse oblige. It is long gone. We rejected it ab initio here.
Michael Lewis uttered those words, at the Princeton speech. They make no sense to Americans.
Once upon a time, the needs of the poor were ministered to, rather badly then as well, by the aristocracy, and by the church.
With the Reformation, the charitable work of the church in Europe was taken over by the state, or terminated. When it continued it, it did not do it even as well as the Catholic Church had... resources were diverted even more than before...
But we are not in the 18th Century.
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