DiamondDave
Army Vet
Its OK for churches to help poor people in the conservative mind but not for government to help them.
I have never understood why they make that distinction?
How they figure one social construct is good yet another is evil.
The only thing that seems to make sense is they want a certain level of humans in our society to be hungry and sick.
The church has NEVER in mans history been able to handle the problem of poverty.
Governments have historically done a better job at combating poverty.
What is their reasoning ?
it seems to me its political and not human concern driven.
I love how one day the Right is pointing out (with disgruntlement) that America's Poor are better off than the poor anywhere around the world (whether true or not is beside the point)
and then the next day the Right is ranting on how America's 20th century poverty programs have been a FAILURE.
Which is it? Which day is it I guess would answer that question...
How many of the 'poverty' programs have lifted people out of the given realms of 'poverty' that our government has arbitrarily labeled as such?? Have the numbers increased or decreased after these 'poverty' programs??