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Originally Posted by gleem
HA! a good charity uses 75% to 95% of it's donations go directly to the people it's trying to help... Gov't has a 75% or MORE overhead on every dollar it gets from the taxpayer to pay for it's own existence, and bureaucracy... you couldn't be more wrong!
The best way to be least effective on any cause is to give the gov't the power and your money to do it.
Amazes me that most people have no idea it's THEIR money that the gov't uses to do all this crap and the only thing the gov't has ever proven to be good & efficient at is wasting tax money, paying themselves & their cronies, growing itself, and killing people around the world.
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I'll quote me too
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Originally Posted by spazlabz
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.
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sperbonzo brought up a good point, the government sucks at efficiency and oversight of the social safety net programs they provide... they suck at controlling cost in all areas of the budget and whose fault is that? Ours, the American public's fault for not holding them accountable. But to think the government does not have substantially more resources to help the poor and unemployed in this nation that far exceeds the ability of all charitable organizations here... well to believe that in my opinion is to just quit and say "the government is broke and aint nuttin can be done bout it"
I firmly believe we could do a tremendous amount of good for our citizens, poor, middle class, employed, unemployed, small business owners, all of them if the people we elected stopped spending money like a drunk rich whore on rodeo drive and started being much more responsible with how and where they spent the money. They need to negotiate prices for products and services and not just accept outrageous prices. They should hire my wife to look over what they spend money on and then have to explain why such-n-such costs so much more for them... that would learn them!