Article of the day: In the Past, Children Were Full of Life

Question... is it the government's responsibility to provide "a hope for [the Japanese people's] life in an affluent society" as the columnist concludes? I might agree that it's the government's partial responsibility to provide a hope in a poverty-stricken society and even then it's only partial. But in an affluent society? In an affluent society I'd have to say that personal lifestyle choices are the key factors.

Jeremiah 29:11