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Originally Posted by spazlabz
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.
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
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Like I said in my post, the fact that the government has taken control of so much money does NOT mean that it is more efficent or fairer at helping the poor than private charity is. In fact on the contrary it has been shown over and over again to be grossly inefficent and prone to all kinds of sway from special interests. Just because the government can take your money by force, or print it, and private charity cannot, does not make it "better" at helping the poor.
....also my apologies for taking away from the subject of that Akin asshat....
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