Re: Question on Charity

["Currie Morrison" <currie@tic.ssd.k12.wa.us>]

QUESTION ON CHARITY



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)?
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Absolutley not!!!


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?
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It is already happening, so it is a fact of life now. Our inability to
institute health reform several years ago is already haunting us and
especially the poor and those on fixed incomes.



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?
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We are really just kidding ourselves if we think charity is going
to solve this problem.  The first sign of economic hard times will
hit the poor doubly hard because of the inadequate basic support
compounded by the drying up of charitable contributions. This idea
is a joke I think.


Sincerely,
Currie Morrison