Depends what you mean by working with what life throws them, craig. Most people live with an expectation of change for the better in their own lifetimes. I do and key is work, not whining, coming up with better ways to make healthier and happier communities, starting with small projects demonstrating more benefits, more competent and less expensive management for government to respond to. It's not government's job to make better social and economic infrastructure. Big government comes from saying you pols and bureaucrats come up with ideas and do it while it's commoners who have real experience living it with skin in the game. As for big-money funding drying up, a couple presidential candidates did really well crowd funding from the seat of their arse. Bottom-up, craig, not top-down.