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Originally Posted by sperbonzo
Nope. The context was specifically about people in the US that think that by voting to have their neighbors money be taken, and given to others, is not "compassion". If I come to your house and take half of your stuff under threat of force and give it to other people, am I being "compassionate"?
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compassionate no....seriously injured..yes. I AM still an American
and that is a gross misrepresentation of taxation and not even worthy of an intelligent response.
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meanwhile, I would like to see ANY study or research that shows that the government has a greater ability to help the poor than private charities. The fact that the government can take our money by force, or print more, is not an indication of their ability to do good works with that money in any kind of efficient, or even fair manner. Please show me a place that tells you that the government is better at this. I would be fascinated to read it.
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lets see, a study. Well I could spend a couple of hours researching this to try and win a debate on the interwebs or I could apply common sense... I'll take a swing at the latter.
How many people are on unemployment
how many people are still unemployed and off the unemployment statistics
How many people are on (yeah I call it this) welfare... all forms
how many people are on medicare/medicaid
what is the annual state and federal budget for unemployment, welfare, medicare/medicaid
I am assuming here that the difference between the sum total of all the above would greatly exceed the combined total of all domestic charitable and faith based organizations in the country based on what they give to help the poor in their communities. Why? because they do not have a budget of trillions. I would love to know (as a piece of trivia) what combined budget all the charities and faith based organizations have per year but I seriously doubt that anyone has those numbers.
having said all that my apologies to the OP for my part in hijacking a thread about Akin