Who can best help the poor?

I do not know how many of you have been in the "poor" class but I have been and as easy as it seems it is not. Funny thing is I realize what the poor recieve monetarily is both not enough and too much. Hows that for a cunundrum? lol It is not enough because it will not really cover basic needs, cash allowance in my state would not even pay rent let alone any other bills, also our state does not cover parents on any kind of medical. (there are exeptions but they are few) Add to that the fact that the moment you get any kind of job cash is gone! I could go on and on about how this system works but suffice it to say the system is broken. It is too much because you become dependent on the little that you get and trying to figure out ways to keep it. For example you get offered a good paying job but there is little or no medical, well you can not take it because what if the kids get sick? You have lost your state medical and have none available at work. Plus in some areas it takes so long to get the help people would rather not risk losing what they have. My take on it all coming from public assistance to nearly completely self sufficient? More than job training poor people need training in finances and credit, and a shot of mentoring from someone who has made it would not hurt either!

"Would they have been better off with no government help?" Yes, because government help weakens people by making them dependent without any incentive towards independence and self reliance. The time comes when a person needs to become able to take care of themselves. So far, government programs have not learned to do this.

The US poor has it very well off compared to other nation's poor. Through all of those government program more people have become poor instead of doing away with the poor. Let us gleam something the our Master taught us, "The poor you will always have with you." Remember what was going on, Mary Magdalene broke the box of perfume and poured it on the Christ, Judas said that we could have sold the perfume and given it to the poor. Even back then their were people that wanted to take from the rich and give to the poor. The Christ wanted some luxery before his sacrifice, Judas could only see money that could in away be taxed. When was the last time anyone every heard of a government program recieving a cut, except of the military. Government cannot do without, but the taxpayers that pay for all of these programs have to. If there was no government programs would lighten the tax load on the taxpayers. More job could be created because there would be more money avialable to create these jobs. Since people will have more money they would have more money to spend, or save. Spending will create jobs because products have to be made. Saving create loanable money so more small start up businesses could be created. Make sense to me, I wonder why some do not understand it.

I don't think that poor people would have been better off with no government help. What they would have been is starving and destitute on the street. Although your example about giving them fish is true and we do need to teach people how to fish for themselves. In most cases this means making sure colleges and other post secondary educations are available and affordable. However there will always be some people, like me for example I'm in a wheelchair I require $3,000 of medicine per month. I have two jobs but don't make much money and even if I did I need $80,000 minimally to support my survival needs, wheelchair, PCA care, medicines, doctor visits, and so on. As no insurance company will accept me, due to my pre-existing conditions I have to stay on state health insurance until I die. This doesn't mean I am a lazy person, it just means I am a person interested in survival.

There are a few you mite of left out section8 where you pay only part or no rent at all. Then there are the churches that help. I'm just upset. I own my own home in not a good part of the city. My sister get section8 and live's by a lake. out in the burbs. Med. paid. Got a free van. got free clothes funiture and food. I mean it make's me think why do I work 40 plus hours a week. Yes sometimes I think if she got no help she would get a job and stop whinning about poor me. How she has nothing. I have used clothes used furniture bought at a thirt store. garage sales. There are time I really dislike her and the goverment. So yes stop most programs and make them work. She thinks that she is worth more like won't get job unless she get's over $15.00 a hour. well, you have to sart at the bottom I did $7.05 a hour. So Yes I agree.

It is reality happy to live in American. People can enjoy so many social welfare that being a American is the dream of a lot of people of other nations. But in a way I suspect the effect of welfare that the poor enjoy. we can't certain if it help the poor to seek a better life or indulge them give up their efforts.

"all we are doing is giving then the Fish" I think that summarize it all. We really can't blame the government in totality for poverty. This applies to all nations. We have to help ourselves to overcome this poverty and I think government is there to support (that would be good if they will really going to support the mass people).

For me, to answer this kind of question, it should come to themselves. More or less, the government should help them if they didn't have any facilities.

Ex-poor people but it depends on theri characters. Anyone with sympathy can help the poor so why limit it to some organizations?