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MrRodgers -> RE: Is every American is entitled to eat? (6/1/2017 4:45:14 PM)
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ORIGINAL: vincentML
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the question is who is better equipped to do it. government, or other entities.
the latter does it better and without the harm that the former does.
is it so frickin' hard for you godless lefties to believe that people are indeed charitable from their own volition and don't need to be forced by government to do whats good?
I would think that 43 million in need of help are beyond capability of volunteer kitchens. To think otherwise begs credulity.
There are other tasks for which we depend upon the collective. Security immediately springs to mind. You benefit from our national defense, or would you rather put the whole thing in the hands of some private charity?
We make a bargain as a society. We have obligations as members of that society. I have asked you before and you ignored me: if our chosen agents have decided it is to the collective benefit to reduce poverty and homelessness
would you refuse to pay taxes? If we have a public school system, would you refuse to participate with your taxes? If we decide to pave the streets upon which you do not travel would you feel you are being forced to participate? Fuck no, you wouldn't. Not the latter two. Only the first. Why is that? Our Constitution proposes we are banded together for the general welfare. Why is it you on the Right cringe at the thought of government helping people in need? Your position is absurd.
Well what is all but forgotten is that to the extent govt. fails to regulate business and especially the corp, and to reform against the ruse that corp. are people and that property is speech. to construct a level tax and economic field...creates the debt, inequality and poverty we are seeing now and continues on the rise.
What we notice instead is how the 1/2 century long propaganda that has taken hold that for govt. to ensure that economy serve all of society, is somehow socialism and that if there are no jobs or food or health care the modern moral sentiments of the right, now tell people, they can just go to jail or die.
That's why in fact Europeans are happier, doing better generally, get more time off, enjoy better health care and live longer where in many countries, enjoy a higher standard of living and BTW, are not coming to America.
Plus of course whether or not one believes in any of the gods as most Americans say they do while failing to enact policies that reflect that belief, simply demonstrates their increasing hypocrisy.
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