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[QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [QB] Interesting that as a Christian, this reporter believes that the poor are best off when "helped" by the government, not by individials or church organizations. To argue from a difficult standpoint, being a non-Christian myself, and to make points that Omega will no doubt exceed in this matter, Christ did not say "render unto Caesar what is yours, his, and everybody else's" Perhaps Day believes, as many do, that tax cuts will lead to increased personal investments and spending, both of which can generate revenues for others. Perhaps tax cuts will allow more people to have the capital to begin their own business, which, if successful, will employ more people, thus getting them off the dole. Or perhaps they will result in less demands for salary increases (due to less stress on personal incomes), thus allowing companies, schools, and other organizations more funds to hire more employees as revenues grow. Thus getting still more people off the dole. Perhaps with more able bodied people off the dole, a greater proportion of funds for the dole can be used to assist non-able people on the dole (like my girlfriend) to make producers out of themselves (thus getting THEM off the dole as well, as my gf dreams of being) rather than stifling them because they just don't have the funds to help I would bet, as an reputed associate of fishermen, that Jesus would have known that a man who knows how to fish, and does so, will be better off than a man who does not or can not, and is simply given a fish by a friend. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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