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Al Bellenchia's avatar

Folks are going to find out real quick how much communities and individuals depend on nonprofit organizations and charities. Just as they are finding out how much good that government does for them. There is no argument that tax dollars could be more efficiently and intelligently managed, and that policies that underlie social programs could be better. But there also is no argument, at least a rational one, that can be made that there should be no government spending or support for charities and nonprofits. We have seen, at least those of us who choose to learn from history, that effective government protects and promotes good citizenship, and good works.

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REX SMITH's avatar

Absolutely right on target, Al. I'm very sorry for all the disruption and pain that the destruction of nonprofit organizations will cause; the lesson of their value will be a hard one. Keep us posted, please, on your work, via "What fresh...?".

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Al Bellenchia's avatar

Thank you, Rex. It would be nice if we needed neither government or charities but that’s as much a fantasy as what the right has been peddling.

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Hermes Ames's avatar

Well said!!

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REX SMITH's avatar

Thanks, Herm.

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Pamela Bentien's avatar

Schadenfreude. Petard. Good words!

When I encounter someone who is expressing anti-social, cruel judgements of others, I always wish that they will always be treated with the same compassion that they have shown.

Which is kinda your tone here too.

And as Gov. Mario Cuomo used to say, any jackass can kick down a barn. It takes a community to build one.

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REX SMITH's avatar

Thanks, Pamela. And Mario said this:

"We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses."

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Pat Jacco's avatar

We must " care for the least of us." I want to wake up from this nightmare. Thanks for all your commentaries.

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Pa's avatar

An interesting post from a SUNY Geneseo grad

PSA: I will be boycotting all partisan politics permanently for the foreseeable future.

As far as I'm concerned, they've been selling us a whole lot of useless outrage, division, distraction, and manipulation for far too long and I'm done buying it.

I'm sick of hearing it. I'm tired of being bombarded by it from every angle all day long every day. This is no way to live.

If you can come up with some actual actionable solutions that don't involve millions upon millions of people dying in a gruesome and violent war, I'm all ears.

If you think you're going to solve anything by angry virtue posting on Facebook all day every day that's your right.

I will be tuning you out, though.

I suggest anyone who still has a modicum of emotional regulation and self-control left do the same.

They're feeding off your lifeblood like vampires and you deserve better than this.

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Janice Airhart's avatar

I am just sickened by the cruelties that are met with joy and applause by those who claim to be Christian. And they appear to be the majority. It's very disheartening.

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