Responsibility Is Antidote to Poverty

Walking past yards and sidewalks full of trash, a visitor to England asked, Why don't they tidy up their gardens? Dalrymple explains that the tenants feel cleaning is the job of the landlord or the council (the local government); tenants would rather wade through garbage than clean.  Observing the items of trash, the visiting doctors formed the impression that no Briton is able to walk farther than ten yards or so without consuming junk food. Every bush, every lawn, even every tree, is festooned with chocolate wrappers or fast- food packaging. Empty cans of beer and soft drinks lie in the gutter, on the flower beds, or on top of the hedges.