peter12: 'I think it's a sad sign of our culture's spiritual decay when things like charity, love and hope are replaced by bureaucrats and politically-motivated welfare schemes. Even worse is that people defend it.'
Yup, all support programs are politically motivated. They have nothing to do with trying to improve society or even just make the best of a bad or undesirable situation. Nothing at all with the vision of a country and how to deal with it's problems. Trying to come up with solutions to complex probelms even though ideas and values differ. It's all politics.
What a silly thing to say. Yeah, situations like that are used politically, but only because those situations already existed.
I'm not sure there would be enough love and charity to go around without them. Maybe there would be, and I'd like to hope so, but I'm not so sure. Either way I don't mind if my taxes go that road.
And don't even get me started on he spiritual decay comment. I don't even know how that makes sense for your point, never mind the fact that your point is already taking a complex situation and boiling it down to hyperbole to fit YOUR politics.
Speaking of politics... lol
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