← 3) Get your hands dirty. Home 5) Pray for the public schools. → Mitt Romney does. Again, don’t use the state as a proxy. On the one hand, the taxpayers have no need to bankroll your personal altruism. On another hand, the “underclass” are, by definition, folk The System cannot reach; no state action has any real effect on their lives. Three sectors come to mind: employment; homeless shelters; and low-income housing. In “Obstacles to my prosperity,” I said, “The great need

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Kathleen Parker says Democrats are pushing the minimum wage increase in a “desperate” effort to boost turnout at the midterm elections, whereas the proposal stands no chance of passing Congress. As a policy of The William Tell Show, I’m more interested in an issue’s substance than in who will win. The minimum wage increase may not be a good idea, but relates to numerous issues of personal concern to me.