WHAT IS AN ADEQUATE CONCEPTION OF THE REALITY?

When there is no crisis, no war, you may get impression that the modern Welfare State can solve most of the problems. It can take care of poverty, of health, of education, of dwelling.
However, in the time of crisis, we see the State forgetting the poor.

Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005. The 2000 U.S. census put New Orleans's population at 484,674, but Hurricane Katrina in 2005 caused the city's evacuation. Population estimates as of June 2006 range from 192,000 to 230,000.

Today the people in the North of Israel can move to the South and escape from the rockets. If they have money to dwell in a hotel during several weeks. If they have not, the best advise they get from the government is to sit in the shelter.