Re: Question on Charity

[Mike Ballard <classconscious@hotmail.com>]

1. Do you favor a privatized system which eliminates the current
system's redistributive benefits formula (which gives relatively
higher benefits to lower-income people)?


No.  Most of the wealth created within the economy is produced by the 
lower-income people.  That they do not receive it back in wages is no reason 
to punish them when they retire.  A privatized system of anything tends to 
serve the interests of those whose basic needs are already more than well 
satisfied.




2. Under the present system or some of the proposed alternatives,
will some people be forced to choose between food, lodging or
medicine in their daily budgets?


"Are there no prisons?...And the Union workhouses? Are they still in 
operation?...those who are badly off must go there...If they would rather 
die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."
-- Ebenezer Scrooge




3. Will charitable organizations be able to fill the gap between
the needs of the poorest sector of the population and the benefits
provided by government programs?  Should this be the solution to
this problem?

Has charity ever in recorded history been a solution?
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemened repeat it."
-- George Santayana

Mike Ballard


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