Expensive, unintentional daycare

We all know that that chronically homeless must be someplace during the day; here's an expert reporting on one preferred location, the public library. In the midst of this article, he says something that I wish were engraved on the back of the president's hand: "The belief that we are responsible for each other's social, economic, and political well-being, that we will care for our weakest members compassionately, should be the keystone in the moral architecture of a democratic culture."