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What we are saying is that we oppose cradle to grave services when people can and should be able to provide for themselves.


yeah, that is reasonable. But who decides who is eligible for services? and based upon what or who's criteria?

Whether social programs are implemented by faith based organizations, or the federal govt., there will be people taking advantage of cradle to grave services; people in line for help when they shouldn't be. So the problem isn't so much that the govt. is implementing these social programs, but it's that too many people taken advantage of them, is that your position? Having faith based programs will not relieve fraudulent claims of need of the general public, IMO.

Faiths (religions) do good work with the needy, but it should not be their entire focus. It's the government's job promote the the general welfare of the public by implementing social programs that would include a degree of socialized health care for the elderly and infirmed.

It's religion's primary job to care for the spiritual needs of those related to them in the faith, and then to care for the physical and material needs of each other by determining there exists a genuine need.