by Cinda Smaagaard

Created on: February 22, 2012

Society and charitable organizations at large should help out the less fortunate, even if they are suffering from the pain of their own irresponsible or bad choices because we ALL make them and no one is perfect and some times people and events are the result of other peoples bad decisions which we all have to endure and fix.

The most prominent example of other people's problems being visited upon society as a whole would be those involving the current economic situation.  Businesses which "cooked the books" or families signing up for mortgages or other debt which on the very face of the documents would have been impossible to beieve, uphold or even negotiate due to the lack of any meeting of the minds, have now become part of our national debt.  While government scrambles to find the funds to bail these folks out, the taxpayer must now bear the burden.  This means that anyone with a tax-paying income, including those on Social Security or other government assistance including farm subsidies, will be seeing less of their piece of any government pie.

One of the biggest mistakes being made does not lie with an individual's accounting, but the oversight.  Big banks, corporate lenders, even charities and nonprofits may be guilty of mismanagement or at the very least overestimating their monetary value.  While home ownership used to be a sure bet to economic weath, many today owe more on their real property than estimated value in today's marketplace.  It is high time society and government got over their aversion to social programs, because we are quite literally our brothers' keepers now more than ever.  Not only in our own neighborhoods but across the globe.  This applies to those in foreign countries who simply do not and have never had access to proper health care, birth control, hunger programs, clean air and water - just to name a few.  Money does not buy everything, as even the rich can attest when they get an unexpected birth defect, multible birth or premature baby whose costs usually are astronomical.  What about the elderly widow, whose spouse worked all his life only to leave his wife with Medicare or Medicaid social programs to rely upon when her health fails her?  Even if one never smoked, drank or otherwise fooled around irresponsiblly, the environment and toxity caused by others less responsible would eventually do one in.

Let's stop playing the blame game as far as "wrong theologies" go and buck up to the realization that we all have to help our fellows.

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