[ianlippert]

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Some people, definitely. But most people would have nothing to do with charity if the government wasn't here to coerce us into funding social programs with our tax dollars.

At least IMO.


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You say we need the government to help the poor. The government has the resources to eliminate poverty in America and yet there is still poverty. Something doesnt add up here.

Although they do pump resources into charitable causes, they also take massive amounts of resources away from the working class. So the people that do care about the poor are no more (and I'd argue less) effective than if we lived in a free market and those that cared about the poor just voluntarily took care of the poor.

If people dont care about the poor why do our politicians always cloak every beauracratic program in the veil of morality? Why is it that they claim to be in Iraq helping the poor Iraqis build their country? Why dont they just say "Hey we are going over to Iraq to blow the [censored] out of them, murder thousands of innocent civilians, steal their oil, and give a bunch of your money to connected contractors"? Because it would never work, people are inherantly moral and this is why the government has to constantly pay lip service to the morals that society values.

Its just unfortunate that people cant see through the hipocrisy and come to terms with what is actually going on in their society.