Exactly. If the poor need something, compassionate people should provide it directly to them. A local government can even be involved as long as it is in the direct services side. If the poor need medical services, for example, there should be a local free clinic where they can go and directly get health care.
There are free clinics all over the USA where doctors freely volunteer their time and expertise to treat the indigent. And most of them are not run by the government, but by Christian and Jewish charities. But Obamacare is probably going to make them all illegal.
As I said elsewhere, I think all charity should be in the hands of individuals, families, and churches, churches, churches --- and nonprofits, philanthropies, fraternal groups, professional associations, community groups, trade organizations, foundations, and anybody other than the government.
The government has despoiled the Church of her proper role in society; and in doing so, has forced, lured, or seduced a huge class of human beings into a degrading state of perpetual dependency.
The evils that follow are almost intractable, unless one envisions the collapse of society itself as a cleansing episode. Our society has deep infection: infected to the bone.
But this video, I think, shows that people know the real deal when they see it: the real deal that comes from a compassionate heart.