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What kind of president will Obama be?
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>>>Should be whole social policy downgraded to crowd pleasing due to 'pragmatic consideration'?
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>>>I've not seen anybody suggest that.
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>>>If you drop piece of meat here and there then at the end you will be out of meat and ever-hungry crowd (fostered to expect free meat only) will eat you anyway.
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>>>Feeding zoo animals carries an expectation that a) the supply of food is inexhaustible and b) the animals are contained so they can't get at you. Of course that is a completely different proposition from large numbers of marginalized people who are legally entitled to roam your street and may be feeling like Robin Hood.
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>>So? If you provide free food to large number of free roaming people, would not their number increase to unsustainable (in food terms) levels capping the idea with inevitable end?
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>Example - Many so-called countries in Africa that are in the constant state of begging/stealing/killing. Charitable organizations only increase the suffering.

Absolutely. By providing them free food and health service they give native governments free hand to wage wars and enrich themselves through corruption with no regard to people needs. The latter must be cared by West.
Edward Pikman
Independent Consultant
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