[Salvation]

You will find out that Charity is a heavy burden to carry, heavier than the kettle of soup and the full basket. But you will keep your gentleness and your smile. It is not enough to give soup and bread. This the rich can do. You are the servant of the poor, always smiling and good-humored. ~St. Vincent dePaul

[Salvation]

Monsignor Pope Ping!

[mjp]

All the altruism in the world won’t solve the poverty problem. Survival and life proper to a rational being requires gaining and keeping values not sacrificing them. Finally non-sacrificial giving to charitable assistance is influenced by the law of diminishing marginal utility, just like any other activity. An individual stops giving when the importance that is attached to giving to the poor falls below the attachment that one gives to one’s own needs and desires.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

We have the fattest “poor” people on Earth.

“Wealth” is nothing more than money that you saved or invested instead of spending it on Escalades, bling and hoes.

Some people will never have “wealth” no matter how much of other peoples’ money you steal and give to them.

[cloudmountain]

Not always easy to do this, especially when some of the poor keep repeating the behaviors that got them poor:

They have sex out of marriage, KNOWING that the government will CONTINUE to fund their husband-less baby production. They ALL know that sex out of marriage is wrong but they still do it. Satan is busy with them.

They fail to get a job, relying on welfare all their lives.

They fail to keep a job for whatever reason.

They fail to even TRY to better themselves.

The poor will ALWAYS have the right to take themselves as far down the road to ruin as Satan can get them.