Wise Words on Wednesday: Why not you?

We like to hide behind our big institutional solutions to problems.

That’s why we’d rather elect somebody to clean up the streets than take a walk down our own street with some paint and a broom. That’s why we’re more likely to pay higher taxes to support the elderly than to spend time getting to know them. And it’s why we’re more likely to drop ten dollars in the collection plate than we are to take a homeless man to lunch.

We love to subsidize and outsource our charity and the fixing of our problems. 

– Matthew Warner, Messy & Foolish