Costa Mesa Mayor Proposes To Shut Down Soup Kitchens To Deal With Homeless Problem

CBS Local ^ | 10/5/2012 | Staff

[Longtooth]

If this idea should accomplish it’s goal in Costa Mesa how about trying it on a national level.

[chrisinoc]

I do dog adoption events in Costa Mesa and I can tell you the soup kitchens are drawing undesirables in that city.

[Carry_Okie]

This is the eventual result of the Church and citizens ceding their authority and responsibility to provide charity themselves directly and allowing the civil government to usurp such authority and responsibility.

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,

“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”

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 isn’t so obvious: Those on the receiving end have to ask for help, and possibly modify their behavior to get it.

That’s 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.

[GeronL]

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Just don’t subsidize them if you don’t like it.

Oh wait, they probably don’t