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	<title>Comments on: Religious Groups as Alternatives to the Public Sector</title>
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		<title>By: Dan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hesitate to listen to right wing discussions of  poverty because they have such little experience with poor folk.  Its obvious.

Right wing think tanks-even less experience.  

So when a right wing thik tank labels tallies up the activity of religious charities with the point of saying, &quot;See we can do without evil welfare&quot; I am eager to hear the opinions of the leaders of these religious charities.  I suspect most are not at all eager to see any substantial cut in the already parsimonious &quot;safety net&quot; of welfare, food stamps, public housing, medical assistance, SSI/SSD, or medicare.  I suspect they are barely meeting current client demands and fear the crush of the right wing war on the poor, a seemingly acceptable form of class warfare according to Church heirarchy.  

The Republican Dream seems to always involve the eager inevitability of seeing homeless families on our streets.  Like the shoulder-shrugging acceptability of dead civilians as so much &quot;collateral damage&quot; in these wars of choice.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I hesitate to listen to right wing discussions of  poverty because they have such little experience with poor folk.  Its obvious.</p>
<p>Right wing think tanks-even less experience.  </p>
<p>So when a right wing thik tank labels tallies up the activity of religious charities with the point of saying, &#8220;See we can do without evil welfare&#8221; I am eager to hear the opinions of the leaders of these religious charities.  I suspect most are not at all eager to see any substantial cut in the already parsimonious &#8220;safety net&#8221; of welfare, food stamps, public housing, medical assistance, SSI/SSD, or medicare.  I suspect they are barely meeting current client demands and fear the crush of the right wing war on the poor, a seemingly acceptable form of class warfare according to Church heirarchy.  </p>
<p>The Republican Dream seems to always involve the eager inevitability of seeing homeless families on our streets.  Like the shoulder-shrugging acceptability of dead civilians as so much &#8220;collateral damage&#8221; in these wars of choice.</p>
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