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re: Private charities do just fine.
Tom Brosz — (archived)

I remind you that, if private charities had had this problem under control, government would not have had any reason to become a player in this particular issue.

You really need to make up your mind if the government is a mass of corruption in the pocket of Big Money, or a benevolent entity with only the best interests of the American citizen on its mind.

The cynical view might be that government got into the business of "charity" because there is no political power to be had in private solutions. There is a long history in America of "crises" being manufactured, sometimes out of thin air, for which, surprise, the only solution is a massive government bureaucracy. Suddenly, a few years later, a huge program that Americans had somehow managed to survive without for decades is declared to be the life blood of entire segments of the population.

As just one of many examples, we somehow put a man on the Moon without a Federal Department of Education. Now, if you suggest that it might not have been necessary, well obviously you just don't want little kids to have an education AT ALL, do you!

Remember, if you gain political power by election, dependency on the State is a GOOD thing.

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