Comics, 6-25-21: Charity & Poverty

​How To Fix Poverty: Why Not Just Give People Money? 

​The Subtle Problems of Cash Charity
In modern society too often the man has lost his place in the family and the woman is the new bread winner. He is able bodied but lazy and willing to accept government welfare ... there's an old saying:

“If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.”

Practically all aid today is given as "in-kind" donations — whether that's food, an asset like a cow, job training or schoolbooks. And this means that, in effect, it's the providers of aid — governments, donor organizations, even private individuals donating to a charity — who decide what poor people need most. But what if you just gave poor people cash with no strings attached? Let them decide how best to use it? Very often they spend it on luxuries like cigarettes or alchohol... 

Georgia releases list of 102K obsolete voter registrations to be canceled
6-18-21,  Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Georgia election officials released lists of 102,000 obsolete voter registrations that will be canceled this summer. Raffensperger said. “I fought and beat Stacey Abrams in court in 2019 to remove nearly 300,000 obsolete voter files before the November 2020 election and will do so again this year. Bottom line, there is no legitimate reason to keep ineligible voters on the rolls.”