re: #130 Barefoot Grin

My point was that the conservative view that helping the underprivileged leads to dependence so it should be cut off also leads to the vacuum that allows organized crime to come in and thrive.

The common assumption is that in a conservative government, ‘charities’ and churches are supposed to pick up the slack - to hear them tell it, anyway. But the churches and Trump-recognized ‘charities’ aren’t giving anything away or helping, either. Everybody’s raking in money, but none of them want to turn it loose after they get it.