[the invisib1e hand]

yessah, dey still po. an’ dey’s mo ovvem.

[ChrisInAR]

I love listening to him speak (what a great voice!)...& his trashing the “Long-Legged Mac Daddy” like he does. IMHO, Rev. Manning is terrifuc!

[Notwithstanding]

Give to the Po'

[flash2368]

“Removed due to terms of use violation”

Youtube has a problem with the truth.

[DannyTN]

Deu 15:11 For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land. "

Pro 30:14 [There is] a generation, whose teeth [are as] swords, and their jaw teeth [as] knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from [among] men.

Yes the poor are always with us. Yet God gave commands to both individuals and heads of state to give to the poor and consider the causes of the poor and needy. God also removed rulers because of their failure to do this. If "We the People" wish to continue to rule, we must try to help the poor.

That said, is just giving them money the best way to help them? Maybe not. Helping them find jobs and develop job skills would be far better. And hand up is better than a hand out. But a hand out is better than ignoring them and losing our rule of this land.

[econjack]

I used to teach the introductory economics class at a local university. Back in the 80’s, a family of 4 with $9600/yr or less were defined as “poor”. I used to tell my students that I could end poverty overnight. They were astonished and asked how. I told them: You get every household who makes $9600 or less, round ‘em up, and shoot ‘em.

After seeing their eyes turn into pie plates, and I got them settled down, I asked: How long do you think it would take before the guy making $9601 starts bitching that he's the poorest person in the system and needs to be helped. We then went on to discuss how, in any free market system, people are going to earn different incomes so someone will always feel poor...they will always be with us. Any war on poverty is doomed to failure...despite throwing billions of dollars at it.

[Erik Latranyi]

The only gov’t program that SOLVES problems is the military.

We spend very little money (portion of GDP) on the military, but when there is a problem, we deploy them, fix the problem and they go back to a maintenance account in the budget.

No other program operates like this because no other program is designed to SOLVE problems.

[Oldpuppymax]

In 1950 a bastard child was more likely to be white than black, whereas today... The left has accomplished exactly what it desired—create sloth, gross immorality, crime and utter dependency upon Big Brother. In other words, it made a thoroughly dependable group of democrat voters. And all it took was the destruction of an entire race!!

[OldPossum]

Someone once pointed out, there’s a very good reason why some people are poor: they’re not intelligent.