I would just like to respond to what you said before about the deserving poor. Yesterday I was at the women's correctional facility. I was doing some self-esteem work with women. If people have been abused, if people have been assaulted, and if people have been through the system, they feel pretty bad about themselves, and it becomes hard to expect something different. You become much more vulnerable to an assault, to an abuse.
You could treat, for example, an addiction for someone like that, but if you don't treat the trauma that led to the addiction, it will happen again. Anyhow, I had some quotes for the women to pick, maybe about twenty quotes or so, with five women. One of them picked one and tears were rolling down her cheeks. She was so struck that this quote should say that all people have human rights. It wasn't that she, by virtue of being jailed or by virtue of having used, was now somehow no longer meriting decent treatment. Just the thought that being a human being accorded you a certain preciousness, that if you made mistakes you still kept that preciousness, was overwhelming to her.
When we talk about deserving, we must say that all human beings are deserving. Even when you make mistakes, it doesn't mean you fall out of the category of deserving a meal or a house.