To "help" people.

It must say so because to say what it's really doing – helping itself, to power, by reducing us all to a state of penury and dependence – would be . . . unwise.

But what am I babbling about?

It's the same problem almost all of us whose pockets aren't deep enough to leave money enough to help ourselves after the government has helped itself to our resources have.

I tore something in my shoulder – probably my rotator cuff. I don't know, exactly – because I can't afford to get an MRI, which costs about $1,000 if you aren't "covered" by health insurance, which I am not.

I am not "covered" because insurance has been made unaffordable by the government – which "helps" by forcing the generally healthy with only occasional and remediable problems to offset the cost of "coverage" of the chronically sick. The result is more chronically sick – my shoulder issue, for instance.

And, more need of  "help."

But it is a manufactured need. I could afford to help myself – to pay for an MRI out of my own pocket – were it not for the fact that my pockets are empty. Not because I haven't earned the necessary money – or because I spent it on some other thing – but because the government helped itself to my money.