Posted on 10/06/2012 11:20:24 AM PDT by PieterCasparzen
COSTA MESA (CBSLA.com) The mayor of Costa Mesa proposed to get rid of soup kitchens to deal with the areas homeless problem at a city council meeting on Tuesday.
My belief is that if we manage to put the soup kitchen out of business that will go a long way to addressing the attractiveness in our city thats creating a huge negative impact, Eric Bever said.
According to Bever, the negative impact is homeless people who like Costa Mesa because of services that offer food to less fortunate individuals.
Clients at Someone Cares Soup Kitchen and the non-profit Share Our Selves were stunned by the controversial comments.
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If this idea should accomplish it’s goal in Costa Mesa how about trying it on a national level.
I do dog adoption events in Costa Mesa and I can tell you the soup kitchens are drawing undesirables in that city.
Absolutely correct.
Once people allow themselves to depend on a secular government for sustenance, it becomes their master and they it's slave. And what a cruel master is such a government that would have it's citizens begging it for sustenance; it provides and withholds according to the whims of politics.
Not quite. They become beholden to the agenda of the people who control the politicians.
When the Constitution was written, it was unthinkable that any government should be empowered to redistribute wealth. James Madison himself once said,
Charity and benevolence were to be the exclusive province of the people and the SOLE means of dispensing public welfare. Churches and civic organizations were the principal means.
The biggest distinction between government welfare and private charity is clear: most of the middle-men in private charity are volunteers. The second important aspect of voluntary benevolence isnt so obvious: Those on the receiving end have to ask for help, and possibly modify their behavior to get it.
Thats motivation in action. It builds a wealthier society. Lest anyone think that charity alone is inadequate, considering the alternative of a police empowered welfare state that causes the problems it is supposed to solve, should be enough to convince them otherwise.
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Just don’t subsidize them if you don’t like it.
Oh wait, they probably don’t
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