Is it not correct God could feed all the poor? He doesn't need the government to do so.
The Bible teaches for people to give of their own free will to the poor. It's all about the heart. The more liberals want to take from other people, the more of their own they should give away.
While I have nothing against a small local safety net, anti-poverty programs have proven to be an expensive failure in their own mission. Often counterproductive.
That picture should be big enough for you to read. If not, here is an article about Carter:
Jimmy Carter Invites the Money Changers Back to the Temple | RedState
I'll counter Gailbraith with a quote in my signature:
"I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money." -Thomas Sowell
Redstate, how'd I know
NO, WHAT THE MONEY BUYS IS 2 DAYS WITH THE CARTERS, IN PLAINES, WHERE THEY WILL ALSO ATTEND SERVICES. Horrible, I know
"Is it not correct God could feed all the poor"
HE/SHE DOES A HORRIBLE JOB RIGHT?
The right wing arguments against the War on Poverty always boil down to: See, these programs that we have underfunded or cut back or otherwise hobbled don't work now that we have broken them. So give more money to rich people!
Why Thomas Jefferson Favored Profit Sharing
By David Cay Johnston
The founders, despite decades of rancorous disagreements about almost every other aspect of their grand experiment, agreed that America would survive and thrive only if there was widespread ownership of land and businesses.
George Washington, nine months before his inauguration as the first president, predicted that America "will be the most favorable country of any kind in the world for persons of industry and frugality, possessed of moderate capital, to inhabit." And, he continued, "it will not be less advantageous to the happiness of the lowest class of people, because of the equal distribution of property."
The second president, John Adams, feared "monopolies of land" would destroy the nation and that a business aristocracy born of inequality would manipulate voters, creating "a system of subordination to all... The capricious will of one or a very few" dominating the rest. Unless constrained, Adams wrote, "the rich and the proud" would wield economic and political power that "will destroy all the equality and liberty, with the consent and acclamations of the people themselves."
James Madison, the Constitution's main author, described inequality as an evil, saying government should prevent "an immoderate, and especially unmerited, accumulation of riches." He favored "the silent operation of laws which, without violating the rights of property, reduce extreme wealth towards a state of mediocrity, and raise extreme indigents towards a state of comfort."
Alexander Hamilton, who championed manufacturing and banking as the first Treasury secretary, also argued for widespread ownership of assets, warning in 1782 that, "whenever a discretionary power is lodged in any set of men over the property of their neighbors, they will abuse it."
Late in life, Adams, pessimistic about whether the republic would endure, wrote that the goal of the democratic government was not to help the wealthy and powerful but to achieve "the greatest happiness for the greatest number."
http://www.newsweek.com/2014/02/07/why-thomas-jefferson-favored-profit-sharing-245454.html
Thomas Paine and Ben Franklin: You Didn't Build That
"All the Property that is necessary to a man, for the conservation of the individual and the propagation of the species, is his natural right, which none can justly deprive him of: But all property superfluous to such purposes is the property of the publick, who, by their laws, have created it, and who may therefore by other laws dispose of it, whenever the welfare of the publick shall demand such disposition. He that does not like civil society on these terms, let him retire and live among savages." BEN
Thomas Paine and Ben Franklin: You Didn't Build That - US News
