- 07 Oct 2009 19:11
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Let me ask you Ninurta. Do you want to give the poor food, a home, clothing and everything they need?
Breaking the cycle of poverty requires time. When someone is homeless, sick or hungry they have no time. Their needs are far to immediate for them to seek any long term solution. That is why liberals realize that first you have to stabilize their situation and then go after the cause. Or more directly, there is no value in sending a hungry man to school. He can't learn.
So when you look at the libertarian position that all of this help should come from private sources please realize that some of it already does. Tons of it. But the government's social safety net is keeping people alive in the US who would otherwise starve. The cold hard fact of life is that as generous as Americans are (and we are the most generous people in the world) private charities still do not have the resources to accomplish the mission. That is why we are relying on the government to do so much.
Breaking the cycle of poverty requires time. When someone is homeless, sick or hungry they have no time. Their needs are far to immediate for them to seek any long term solution. That is why liberals realize that first you have to stabilize their situation and then go after the cause. Or more directly, there is no value in sending a hungry man to school. He can't learn.
So when you look at the libertarian position that all of this help should come from private sources please realize that some of it already does. Tons of it. But the government's social safety net is keeping people alive in the US who would otherwise starve. The cold hard fact of life is that as generous as Americans are (and we are the most generous people in the world) private charities still do not have the resources to accomplish the mission. That is why we are relying on the government to do so much.
"The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages." -- Jim Hightower