Inner Peace Dog

Why is "poverty" the government's job to solve?

It isn’t

Because it sets a minimum wage, and laws regarding who can access social programs and services.

The reality of poverty becomes a sociatal issue, and it's a question of weather individuals and churches, or nonprofits... Which received funding to fix or curve the problem, actually are capable or as effective as the government trying to solv

Solve the problem. If history has any say in the situation, our government has always failed miserably when trying to help with social issues.... Like asylum placement, then freeing people living in asylums. The creation of Japanese interment camps just because of a attack on us soil .. but it did create social security which lifted many out of poverty especially newly widowed women.

Thank you for answering honestly.

I agree that government is terrible at solving societal issues. Which is why I want the smallest government necessary.

Churches and charities are tuned in to societal issues much more closely than government, and in my opinion they should be. To me this is a good thing. This is where poverty should be treated, typically because there are emotional wounds alongside the physical needs. Government cannot solve those, and should not be asked to (or trusted to if they try).

The only problem is when nonprofits receive millions of dollars and have no accountability to answer where the money was spent, the whole refugee and immigration crisis was filed by church programs, and nonprofits. So I believe in a federal government that sets the law across all 50 states so smaller government can't create a law that goes against the law set across the land.

Agree the lack of accountability makes the organizations fraud-prone.

Laws such as obligatory open-records access to financial accounts would go a long way. Nothing to hide when you're taking care of those in need. No trade secrets there.

We use to have a federal government that worked along the lines of business ethics, when laws were set on how accountant practices and money could be lended out. Religious entities were the exception, and I do believe the government has failed in the who regulation of businesses, it's gotten so huge over the years that nobody could have imagined it would become this in the 1930s, before the government had a deficit and a bail out of banks, and car company problem. But as of right now it's the consumer that has always pillared the economy, and when people can't get or stay out of poverty, it will slowly draw the middle and upper class down into poverty.

Agree

He's trying but he's working against a system that's been in place for 100 years.