I was sitting at home a week or so ago, enjoying my day when my wife decided to watch a show called "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" with Tye Pennington. It was a very touching story about a family that moved to a neighborhood in Albuquerque, New Mexico with the express purpose of saving the crime-ridden area. This man, a minister of Christian faith, risked his life and the lives of his family to make a difference.
These people had given up most of their family time, money, effort and love in order to help their homeless, unemployed neighbors. A very moving story.
In any case, this TV show came in and refurbished their home, which had become a community living place for the needy, as well as this family's primary residence. They also cleared a dangerous section of the neighborhood, while building (from scratch) an entire new home for the family to live next to their old community living space/residence.
Anyway, the point in this long post is to emphasise that this project cost the family nothing, cost the community nothing, and cost the government nothing (local, state, or federal).
Hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent by individuals and businesses to accomplish their goal of helping people.
An entire community has been saved by the entire community and the sponsors of the show. As far as I know, all the contributors received no direct monetary reward for their contribution.
The sponsor's did get 'product placement' during the show and during the whole process of renovation/building.
Capitalism at its finest, as far as I am concerned.
No government mandated charity (Tax Dollars) were necessary. No government organizations had to spend your tax money.
No tax money was used ...
No tax money was used ...
No tax money was used!
People were helped. People were given a chance for pursuing their happiness, and your taxes were not used!
Welfare is unnecessary!
Charity is the right of the people to freely give, not the right of the government to take (without consultation or permission) your money and spend it on what they think you need to spend it on.
Like A.C.O.R.N. Like useless public education systems. Like entrenched welfare recipients that make more 'free' money from the government than they can at an actual job.
Consider this a call to end public welfare.
I wonder how many billions or even trillions (which is literally thousands of billions) of dollars we could put to much better use than the government can if we were to end the public dole.
Remember, Ending welfare also ends welfare fraud, waste and abuse of the welfare system.
Yes. End the Public Welfare System.
Phase it out, stop it abruptly, whatever is necessary, but end it and end it now!
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