Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.
Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. This reconciliation package fails that test as well.
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