Back to Basics: Food, clothing, shelter

We may think that we need a lot of things. We may think we need cable TV, our morning coffee and bagel, a couple of pints at the pub each Friday, or a really big house with a mortgage that the lender had to “make work for our income.” These aren’t really needs when we get down to it, of course. They’re wants. The stuff we really need â€" after breathing â€" are (a) food (and clean water) in our stomachs, (b) clothes on our backs, and (c) cover over our heads. To this you might add basic medica