[Grovenet] Genesis 4:9

[Steven]

Let the government take it all over. That university in town for example.
And those apartments for farm workers. Heck all housing. Food supply. Take
over all farming and distribution. Why do we have free enterprise at all?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: grovenet-bounces at rdrop.com [mailto:grovenet-bounces at rdrop.com]On
> Behalf Of David Morelli
> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 10:39 PM
> To: Forest Grove local interests list
> Subject: Re: [Grovenet] Genesis 4:9
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> 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.
>
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