Is the city in such perilous fiscal condition that the mayor and the Department for the Aging must abandon our oldest, frailest and neediest fellow citizens?
Moreover, government assistance programs exist because we've decided, as a country, to help our neediest fellow citizens.
Plus, Michael C. Hall is a terrific actor but somehow I confused the actor with the role yet again and wasn't certain if the needy, wimpy fellow from Six Feet Under could freak me out.
Equally funny is the song performed by Lady Hyacinth D'Ysquith (Mr. Mays as well), a doughty, relentless do-gooder bent on finding a population sufficiently needy to astound her fellow philanthropists.
Elsewhere, the Torah equates a worker's wages with his very life: "You shall not abuse a needy and destitute laborer, whether a fellow countryman or a stranger in one of the communities of your land.
However, there is more to that passage -- something they conveniently leave out all the time: "Therefore I command you to be openhanded toward your fellow Israelites who are poor and needy in your land".
Ms. Lorusso and the four girls were learning that fulfilling the wishes of needy children who penned letters to the fun fat fellow through the United States Postal Service's Operation Santa Claus was not as simple as it used to be.
In his Thanksgiving proclamation, President Harry Truman called on his fellow-citizens to share their bounty with "needy people of other nations," and they did, through the Marshall Plan and other acts of generosity.
We intend to prompt the global conscientiousness regarding the need to help the needy as well as confront those committing crimes against their fellow man and our shared earth.
It is inspired by our focus on bettering the lives of our fellow citizens, particularly those who are most vulnerable and needy.
