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He's not questioning your philanthropy, he's questioning your use of limited observation to dismiss well-documented phenomena derived from American socio-economic forces.Thanks for the reply, but you don’t know anything about my altruism and philanthropy. If you would like to come work at Our Daily Bread, I will happily get you an apron and a hair net if you so desire.
Also not sure why you are framing this as an either/or situation?
It can both be true that running a soup kitchen can be helpful to a poorer community, and more people should do it, but those people being served still need to see doctors, get medicine filled, have accessible jobs that provide a living wage, and have their children educated in quality schools to ensure we have ladders out of hereditary poverty. And downward pressures on those safety nets increase the rungs on those economic ladders one needs to climb to get out of poverty, not decrease them. And as nice as soup kitchens and donation drives are, they aren't a perfect replacement for those sorts of services and never have been.
It depends on what you are defining as growth. It's slowing the growth of government safety net expenses, sure, but it achieves that by putting more of the cost burden on the people benefitting from those programs you just cut in order to achieve those cost decreases for the government.I may have the terminology wrong, but slowing growth is not budget cuts.
Example, your budget is $10,000. Normally you get a 5% increase, this year you only get a 4 % increase. I may be wrong, but I’m not. lol