{"id":1789780,"date":"2022-12-29T07:53:19","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T12:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1789780"},"modified":"2022-12-29T13:19:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T18:19:09","slug":"john-stossel-charity-better-than-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-stossel-charity-better-than-government\/","title":{"rendered":"John Stossel: Charity is better than government"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjohn-stossel-charity-better-than-government%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1789780&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>It&#8217;s the season to give.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll give!<\/p>\n<p>I will donate to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.doe.org\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Doe Fund<\/a>The charity, which helps ex-cons find meaning in life through <em>work.<\/em> &#8220;Work works!&#8221; They say. It does. Doe Fund graduates are less likely than others to return to jail.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll donate to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-qPSxp7Fy-g\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Student Sponsor Partners<\/a>The program is designed to help at-risk children get out of trouble. &#8220;public (government-run)&#8221; schools.<\/p>\n<p>SSP sends children to Catholic schools. I don&#8217;t consider myself Catholic but I give because Catholic schools are more affordable at half the cost. SSP has helped thousands of families break the cycle poverty.<\/p>\n<p>When I was young I believed that the government would lift people from poverty. &#8220;Government programs, a &#8216;war on poverty&#8217; will give a leg up to the poor,&#8221; said my Princeton professors. I believed. Then I saw the programs fail.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I realize that government actions can cause as much harm and good as they do. Sometimes, even more harm.<\/p>\n<p>This is what you should do &#8220;war on poverty.&#8221; Americans were able to lift themselves from poverty when it started. Each year, the percentage of families living below the poverty line has declined.<\/p>\n<p>Next came the government bureaucrats and their programs. They have spent $25 billion so far. <em>Trillion<\/em> Information about programs for the poor<\/p>\n<p>Some people received help from the money. For the first seven years, the poverty rate fell. &#8220;war.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, then the progress stopped. People were encouraged to become independent by government handouts <em>dependent\u00a0<\/em>Handouts<\/p>\n<p>It is called learning helplessness.<\/p>\n<p>Welfare <em>Created<\/em> An &#8220;underclass,&#8221; There are many generations of people who have never worked. They&#8217;d lose their benefits if that happened.<\/p>\n<p>Many generations of people have children, but they don&#8217;t get married. They would lose all their benefits.<\/p>\n<p>The government taught people to be passive. This was something new and terrible.<\/p>\n<p>This is why charity is so much better. Charities workers are able to make judgements about who is in need of help and who is pushing.<\/p>\n<p>Not all charities do good. Some charities can be just as corrupt as the government. Charity can encourage people to give back if they&#8217;re well managed. <em>independence.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>They don&#8217;t <em>Force<\/em> Please contact us<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the season to give. I&#8217;ll give! I will donate to the Doe FundThe charity, which helps ex-cons find meaning in life through work. &#8220;Work works!&#8221; They say. It does. Doe Fund graduates are less likely than others to return to jail. I&#8217;ll donate to Student Sponsor PartnersThe program is designed to help at-risk children &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1789783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[5458,6543,5045,4475,3819,9302],"class_list":["post-1789780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-bongino","tag-charity","tag-government","tag-john","tag-report","tag-stossel"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1789780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1789783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1789780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1789780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1789780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}