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I'm confused, do you think the church and charity should be the only ones taking care of the poor? Should no tax dollars be spent on helping the poor?
Idealistically, yes. To love our neighbor as ourselves, I'd advocate to not see the fruits of their labors stripped from them via the 16th amendment; unless of course the US is to become a theocracy.
The poor in this country aren't really poor.
I agree, but there are times where people go hungry, or are fixing to lose their home, or get evicted, or have their power shut off, loss of transportation, etc. etc. We should help them directly and prevent those things, when they don't have the means to, from happening and encourage them to remediate whatever issues got them there in the first place. The government doesn't do these things already. A lot of health related issues can be resolved via a change of lifestyle. Gratification of the flesh can be construed as gluttony. What is the government doing to resolve this? Nothing. In fact, the problem is exacerbated in places like Oregon who just legalized many recreational drugs. How is that compassionate at all to enable people to destroy their own lives? Sure, it gives the freedom of choice, and at a fundamental libertarian/liberal (think libleft) level, that is viewed as a good thing because people aren't locked up for possession. The sword is indeed double-edged.
Most of the poor here have all they really need. And most of the poor are out of poverty after 25 years old. So there are some that remain poor after 25 sometimes due to no fault of their own. They may have disabilities or illness that prevents them from working and we should be doing all we can to help them.
On the contrary, our church has aided many who are in their 30s, many with children, who were on the verge of homelessness and that was avoided via God's Love and providential care. Instead of just handing them money, the church paid the past due bills (forgiveness of debt...as it could be seen) and helped with resume creation, better employment, and providing child care while the parent(s) sought better employment. God gets people off of welfare via His workers on earth. Secular government doesn't do these things.
To the point of the OP, A Nation is not its government, especially when the nation is made up of faithful people and the government is derided as being a faithless, secular institution (and by design).
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