Maybe off topic, but things seems to be getting out of hand with these “entitlement” public assistance programs.
With food assistance and food stamps, more and more schools are feeding kids all their meals. There are summer feeding programs at some schools. Some schools send kids home on Friday afternoon with backpacks full of food for the weekend.
What gets me is that their families are already getting food stamps to feed these kids, yet they are also getting fed through the schools, even during school vacations and summer vacations.
I don’t want anyone to go hungry, but there need to be limits set on all these programs.
Private charity is better than government social programs because the latter are vulnerable to corruption both in the giver and the receiver.
I don’t believe the Lord utterly despises such programs in the absence of anything else, they do serve to help the “honest poor” (especially when it’s not chiefly their fault they are poor, which is more and more the case with this abusive government) — but when such programs were boosted as a substitute for charity that was asking for trouble.
The Dems were brilliant when they put the food stamp program under the Agriculture Dept rather than HHS.
That way they got a lot of ag state Republicans to support it.