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We need our government to transition social welfare programs to private non-profit organizations that seek their funding directly from the people and the businesses of America,

Big government no solution to helping the poor



Big government no solution to helping the poor
Whenever there is lots of money in a centralized source, there is a need to take extraordinary measures to keep it from being stolen. Yet we have a federal government that is involved in the centralized collection and spending of trillions of dollars that is being run by thieves.
These thieves have a system of propagandists and compliant news media that have convinced millions of people that this system is working for the common good. Meanwhile, they are fleecing the nation, the poor and needy go without help, and their spending is totally unhinged from revenue, causing national debt to reach unsustainable levels. So what are these thieves now presenting as the keystone of their political campaigns? Dealing with unequal distribution of wealth - redistribution of wealth, if you will. To them, government always has to grow and ever more wealth has to be expropriated from those who have it. Never mind if their money-grabbing efforts cause the sources of wealth to be less prosperous and government bureaucrats become wealthy while the poor and needy receive very little help. The thieves know people are averse to their methods when they correctly describe them as socialism and Marxism, so they rename Marxist redistribution and call it a "living wage,” promoting minimum wage legislation as a way to make businesses pay wages based on what people need to live at some government-determined standard of living rather than paying people the value of their efforts on the job. It was articulated by Karl Marx in 1875 as “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.” (Critique of the Gotha Program) But with Marx’s version of the living wage it required all private property to be abolished and a “dictatorship of the proletariat” to be set up. Today’s living wage advocates conveniently leave out that part of the equation when they promote it.

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We are seeing the real results of wealth redistribution in the area surrounding Washington

While the anti-capitalist agitators March on Wall Street to attack the accumulation of wealth by business and finance, they ignore all the taxpayers' money being squandered by those elected officials who sell themselves to the highest bidding K Street lobbyist in Washington, DC. Shouldn’t those who squander the wealth concentrated in the federal government bear greater scrutiny, since much of that wealth is accumulated supposedly for the purpose of helping needy people, but is really being appropriated by those out to effectively steal that wealth? We are seeing the real results of wealth redistribution in the area surrounding Washington, as more and more people living there get wealthy making their living off of taxpayer money and the national debt, and the poor still do without. It is the area of our country that best exemplifies the fact that government causes wealth inequality rather than solves it. Walter Hickey at businessinsider.com pointed out on September 13, 2013: “Of the six counties in the United States with median income greater than $100,000, of course four of them are in the D.C. metro area.” The top three, Loudoun County, Virginia ($115,574), Falls Church City, Virginia ($114,409), and Fairfax County, Virginia ($105,416) As the socialists try to create their so-called utopia with its equal distribution of wealth by centralizing more government control in the capitol of our country, they actually help to do the opposite. The thieves also hide as purveyors of new "green" technology then run off with millions of dollars of grant money while their new technology company goes bankrupt. It’s important that we help those who are in need. It just shouldn’t be government’s role to provide charity. While Scripture quotes Jesus as saying we will always have the poor among us (Mark 14:7), that didn't at all mean we should not help the poor and needy. The Gospels are full of examples of Jesus helping those in need, and followers of Jesus, that is, Christians, have shown themselves to be very generous throughout history. We need our government to transition social welfare programs to private non-profit organizations that seek their funding directly from the people and the businesses of America, rather than through a moribund system that channels taxpayers’ money through government bureaucracies based out of Washington, D.C.


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Rolf Yungclas -- Bio and Archives

Rolf Yungclas is a recently retired newspaper editor from southwest Kansas who has been speaking out on the issues of the day in newspapers and online for over 15 years


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