I understand what he's saying in his article, but I still have the opinion that the problem IS the overreaching hand of the federal government. This country was founded on equal opportunity and not equal outcome. There are way way too many government services and too much meddling in the private business of private citizens. Less meddling, less taxes and more self-sufficiency is the answer to our problems and the legacy our founding fathers left us; a nation founded to preserve the freedoms of the "individual" with the a belief that these gifts were bestowed on us by God.