As Booker T, once said a long time ago, the measure of a man is not so much the position he reaches but the obstacles he overcommes. The one thing holding back the youth and elderly alike in this country is not the 1%, not the government, not the schools but ourselves. When we won't rise to the occasion we expect someone who does to break out their purse as if we deserve it. As Will Smith said in the pursuit of happiness, if you want something go get it. Only them will we see gangs, drugs, crime, poverty go extinct.