← 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