[JerryLove]

Originally Posted by nolidad

Wouldn't that statement, problematic though it may be, be interesting if we were discussing how to end a recession. Since we were talking about the failure of charity to save those destitute from the depression, you are tossing a red-herring.

And all your big socialist style programs couldn't help the millions who lost their homes in this current depression- so it seems socialism doesn't work either! Just ask Russians they know.

It would indeed be a huge problem if I had claimed that the government response was entirely sufficient to the task.

You have said "charities are enough", I have said "they are not".

I have not said "current government response is enough".

I have said that government helped many that charity had not. I used the 1920s as an example; though it's simple to look at the rest of the world today and see that despite charities existing there is death and disease and starvation. It's also easy to see that it's far worse in areas with bad government (say Hati, even before the earthquake) than those with good government; despite the number of charities involved.