Priests and religious in poor barrios operate soup kitchens, drug rehabilitation programs and vocational training schools, among other projects. Some involve government cooperation — such as an agency for drug addictions providing funding for employee salaries.
“We work with the state. But we don’t let them domesticate us,” Buruchaga said, taking an independent stance from others in the church.
“We’re doing a job that the state should be doing. It should be supporting it,” she adds, though with Milei’s austerity, that support remains to be seen.
Agree?
“We’re doing a job that the state should be doing.”
Agree?”
No, charity is not the role of the state. Charity should be private.
When you delegate compassion to the state you end up with fraud, abuse, a sense of entitlement, destruction of personal responsibility, etc... it’s a cancer to civil society. And we’re living it... and dying from it.