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Old 01-06-2009, 08:34 PM   #1
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Originally Posted by camper View Post
Quite the opposite. Churches & charities have done more than government programs have. Government is completely and totally inneficient when it comes to providing aid and assistance. Ask anyone who went through the katrina where the main source of aid came from, and you won't hear government.
Some of the first rescuers into New Orleans were Vancouver BC firemen.

VOLUNTEERISM.

The government sets up a bureaucracy and siphons on a considerable percentage of the funds to pay the employees administering the funds and spending. A proper charity is using volunteers and is stretching every donated dollar to the limits.

Gary
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