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brooklynite

(94,698 posts)
Wed Oct 31, 2012, 07:43 AM Oct 2012

Mitt Romney's "Disaster Relief event" is a perfect teaching lesson...

Set aside for the moment the bluntly obvious politicking that was going on, and focus on this simple lesson about people contributing clothes and canned goods:

1. People are personally generous and helpful.

2. Personal (and by extension, church) generosity is not enough for most disasters. That's why we have Government to step in.

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