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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

> Only when that notion is dislodged is there any hope of improving 
> the lot of the dependent.  It isn't, as you will hear suggested, 
> blaming the downtrodden for their lot.  It's more like pointing out 
> that to relieve the terrible pain in one's toe one should first stop 
> hitting one's toe with a hammer.

It is foreign to we homesteaders but I suspect many mired in helpless 
dependency don't know that there are boxes of different tools from 
which to choose to make a life. They think there are only hammers.