[Grovenet] Genesis 4:9

[David Morelli]

This is a difficult area.  Our brothers and sisters have a wide  
variety of needs.  Some, such as a hot meal, may be covered by  
individual personal action.  We all have seen the outpouring of  
public support for Thanksgiving meals for the poor.  It is much  
harder to get support for meals in May.  To that end we establish  
organizations to collect and distribute resources.  They cover a wide  
range of support services and goods.

Private non-profit organizations share two common problems.  Overhead  
and accountability.  The organization pay for the fixed  
organizational staffing costs and it must pay to advertise in some  
fashion to attract donations.  And the public has difficulty knowing  
which ones deliver the goods as promised.  There may be a hundred  
private organizations trying to raise money to support our troops and  
their families, so we may not know which ones only deliver to the  
troops 1% of the money raised.  Also, some needs are not as sexy as  
others, they fail to produce the "poster child" that attracts the  
money they need.  That doesn't mean the need doesn't exist, it just  
doesn't sell well against other flashier issues.

Private industry produces the profitable medicines for diseases and  
conditions.  Orphan drugs don't make it to the market.  Who should  
care for those who need those drugs?

David

On Sep 4, 2008, at 9:27 PM, Carol Morgan wrote:

>
> Sorry, meant CAIN, was referring also to another similar scripture  
> that I amalgamated.  CAIN was the epitome of a bad brother. And the  
> answer for the rest of us, is that we are our brother's BROTHER.   
> Otherwise you have service rendered impotent by being mandated by  
> the government.