On The Social Safety Net

Life is like climbing a ladder. To clime a latter you need a place to stand, a foot to step up, and a helping hand. Without a place to stand you need to step up, but you will need the helping hand to steady you. Without a foot to step up you must stay in place, but you will still need the helping hand to keep from falling. However without a helping hand you can not climb safely and moreover you would be useless if you ever got to the top.

Each of us was given a place in this world that we did not earn. Each of us was given various amounts of talent and various amounts of help developing that talent. Some of us have been given the talent and the help for us to develop on our own. But none of us can truly claim to be self made.

It is my belief that we all have the potential for something greater then we are and that that potential is squandered on this planet at a staggering rate. In the pursuit for the highest rung on the later we have left many behind who are still in need of a helping hand. We have put our vessels up on stilts when what we are in most need to get on our way a rising tide: A rising tide to lift all ships.

Some of the most creative minds are labeled retarded or mentally ill. And I should not see a smile on the faces of the wealthy before every last child on this planet is fed, yet alone educated. The human mind is faster then the fastest super computer built to this date. To allow one brain to go undernourished and uneducated is to waste a resource grater then any handy work of man.