Jamo is the resident colorful commentator so he gets a pass. 
Don't presume I was being entirely funny.
You seem too dismissive of what folks are telling you from the conservative side of the aisle. You seem to presume that social programs run by the government are needed.
As Ronbo noted..."charities" have always done their part...more so before FDR and his fellow travelers started mucking it up with government-forced entitlement programs. Whether faith-based or leftovers from the Knights Templer, given the freedom to do so without tax and regulatory requirements, stuff can get done just fine. You wouldn't believe the crap non-profits have to go through these days, and grant-applications have forged a whole new industry, despite the fact that local groups know better where the needs are than morons back in HUD offices.
Case in point...ten or so years ago under the Clinton Administration, the California orange industry suffered a freeze that immediately put thousands of farmworkers out of work. I'm not talking about illegals or folks who rely on welfare...I'm talking about people with mortgages, credit balances at Sears and kids in school. An organization I was on the board of...a non-profit credit counseling service (not the bullsh!t for-profit companies you see on late-night TV ads) was in there within a day to help folks deal with their creditors. The United Farm Workers (I have no problem tipping my hat to one of my enemies for what they were able to do) got Safeway to deliver food and household goods in semis within 2-3 days. Farmers brought in food that was already designated for market. Local church groups were right there beside them. It wasn't until a week later that anyone from the State (Gray Davis admin.) or federal governments even turned up, and then it was to "assess the situation." Same damn thing happened this last summer when farmers couldn't even plant crops due to lack of water deliveries...Obama sent Salazar to tell us he was turning on the pumps...after the season was over. Farmworkers went out and did what they could with a helping hand and found whatever work they could. Few foreclosures or bankruptcies happened. They don't rely on the teat.
Then we have the morons down in New Orleans...same thing, government got in the way or didn't show...and folks who forgot how to do things for themselves start b!tching at everyone else. Remember all of the buses that just sat there because the mayor didn't think people needed to be evacuated, and then the pictures of the thousands sitting around the Superbowl? Once the water went down, they went around stealing each other's TVs. And liberals howled at Bush instead of dumping that dumb son-of-a-b!tch as mayor. Then we have one of the loudest liberals (jefferson) screaming while he cooled a wad of cash in his freezer.
Bullsh!t...that's what entitlement programs do. Government puts the entitlement drug out through its teats, and we end up with lazy addicts.
Liberals/socialists/communists...whatever label you choose...simply need to get the hell out of the way and let folks get back to working their own problems out.
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