Waffler~ you need to have more faith in human kind and less in the government. Just look at floods in Tenn...people helping people works WAY better than people standing around waiting for the government to step in and help (as in Katrina). People naturally want to help their neighbors and fight for causes they believe in...when the government takes a chunk to do it themselves it just makes people have the Scrooge attitude that people in need will be taken care of and they feel they don't need to help anymore than that.