Quote Originally Posted by MikeyinBrooklyn View Post
Of course it's not. And Detroitnerd's original statement is preposterous in a city where a couple of hundred thousand people live in public housing and/or eat off of one aid program or another. The only two ways in which we have failed to provide for our neediest are 1) Providing terrible educational opportunities to a large amount of students and 2) Establishing low expectations for life accomplishments for a large number of people. We treat too many people as if they are weak, helpless creatures, no better than a starving stray puppy. The nanny state is wrong not because of the cost to those funding it but because of the dehumanization of those persisting on it. Sorry for getting off of the Belle Isle topic...
You mean things like this......

http://www.freep.com/article/2014021...day-incentives