Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes

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16. But, but, but the TAXES to PAY for all this!!!!1!!!11

Why should I help you to pay for your kid? That's socialism. People's gotta learn to be self-sufficient. How do ya expect other people to be self-sufficient if their government keeps helping everbody, instead showing'em who's in charge by droning an bombing'em?

That said, I think this gift box is a wonderful idea. The sorry part is, it wasn't invented here and to get our own government to implement something like this would be just as hard as passing a law for Single Payer, Universal Health Care in this country. It would help too many people. Too many people think as in the first paragraph above. Billions for bombs and we have to continually fight to keep the crumbs from being taken away and we depend on the generosity of others for what should be well woven government safety nets to prevent the poverty, pain and suffering of so many here.

A food bank here in Kansas City was empty the day before yesterday, not much hope of helping anyone for Thanksgiving this year. It took a news story, one news story, to fill it up to overflowing. A properly run government, responsive to the people, would all but eliminate the need for food banks in the first place.

PREAMBLE
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Section 8

1: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

You and I are a part of the "general welfare" mentioned in the Constitution. We do well, the country does well. In fact, "We the people" ARE the purpose of the government. To look out for our general welfare, as charged twice in the Constitution.
Our government is sadly deficient in that department and yet most of us accept that as normal and right.