Community must ask who needs charity?

Call me old-fashioned, but I have always believed that people should seek assistance not because it is an easier path to take, but because seeking public or charitable assistance is a last resort. This is much more than just a moral platitude, because I am concerned that our charitable resources are being squandered and abused. All the buzz over who really “deserves” charity brings up some issues that really need to be addressed in our community.