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Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

All for feeding the hungry- We spend a lot of money on feeding the hungry- there are very few people who WANT to eat who are truly hungry in this country- thankfully. Yes more can always be done but it's not a matter of money at this point- we need to manage food better. I went to NYC public schools- every day schools serve hundreds of thousands of free lunches. Every day many tens of thousands of free (tax payer paid lunches) get thrown around the lunchroom and/or thrown directly into the trash. Every day super-markets throw out food that would be perfectly acceptable to eat but for one regulation or another must be trashed.

Clothe the naked- Have yet to seen any naked people running around.

Educate the illiterate- You can't force people to learn- anyone who is illiterate in this country is so by choice.

House our homeless - I agree but like with food we already spend a lot of money to do this- People who I know over the years who were homeless were drug abuses and mentally ill. The single mother who couldn't pay her rent usually winds up in a shelter. I'm sure it could be better, of course, but in general we do not have a homeless problem in the USA, we have a mental health and addiction problem.

Provide for our veterans and elderly better - Do you think throwing a few million more dollars a year at the current system will change anything?

Revamp our education system- If we could do this we could probably spend half as much as we do on education and get twice the results. Money isn't the problem.

Really when I think about it? The Constitution doesn't call for any of the nonsense the dude calls for - THAT is the problem, we shouldn't be stealing wealth from the people, for this crap. I'll quote:

James Madison, author of the Constitution: "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."

"On objects of benevolence" is key.