“So, you want people to starve in the streets?”
“I accept it as a necessary evil if we want a populace strong enough to deal with the threats represented by the Antaurans, the Ragnosians and anyone else who might want to encroach on our borders.”
Restraining her hot temper required a miraculous effort of will. This was the kind of stupidity that only a privileged Leyrian could articulate with any degree of sincerity. Anna had been to Earth; she had seen the horrors of homelessness, deprivation. She had witnessed the deleterious effect poverty had on the human soul. Destroying their social infrastructure wouldn't produce a generation of hardy Leyrians willing to defend their home against any threats; it would produce a generation of people so desperate for any kind of relief that they wou
