Gary, your comments echo those of HUD Secretary Ben Carson as quoted in a vary recent column by Jason L. Riley in the Wall Street Journal. Too bad the R-G does not reprint columns by serious conservatives, especially black ones like Riley. Carson takes it one step farther by stressing that we need to find ways to help the people you mention who are capable of it to help themselves. He wants to make HUD an agency focused on enhancing human capital. There is plenty of common ground between liberals like you and conservatives like me and Ben Carson, a guy selected for his position by Donald Trump, of course. Too bad that seems to be enough reason for some to dismiss Carson.