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I cannot agree at all. The federal government should not be in the charity business. Help for the deserving poor should be either private or local. The fedgov’s duties and limits are clearly stated in the Constitution.

Welfare has RUINED at least 3 geneations of black people and more than enough white people. Ruined their sense of personal responsiblity, humilty, willingness to work, to be thrifty, to get married and have an actual family.

Before AFDC 80% of black children were born to married parents. And 98 to 97% of white children were born to married parents. Now around 75 to 80% of black children are born to single mothers, and IIRC about 20% of white babies. Hispancs are in the middle. That is a national shame and tragedy.

When charity is private and local, there is immediate oversight, no layers of gov employees making their livings off of the entitlement racket and thus with a vested interest in keeping and enlarging the number of recipeients of the gov charity. With private and local charity freed from crazy unnecessary regulations (which needs to happen all across the board) people can use their creativity and think up ways not just to give poor people a hand out but help them get off of charity. Poor farms, for instance - so they can learn skills and learn to grow their own food. Industries set up to employ poor people, etc. The way it’s run now is ruining not just the poor people (and heck, I’m a lot “Poorer” than most people on welfare!) but the rest of us who have to pay for this crap and then live in the rotten society with so many feral ruined people our money has created!

THere should be no foodstamps, no energy assistnats, no free phones, no HUD and whatever else the gov has boiled up in the cauldren of entitlements.

The system of “helping the poor” has turned into a toxic stew that has ruined millions of lives.

The axiom that compassion without intelligence and wisdom is cruelty comes to mind; as well as the road to hell being paved with good intentions.