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Tony Villari

Charity Begins at Home

  • I think we should give because it is the right thing to do, the moral and the humane thing to do.  It is what Jesus would do, right?  The question, for most of us and our government, is really how to go about giving.  I think Jefferson and Gates have eyes solidly on target.  It isn't about redistributing wealth.  Throwing money at poverty produces no long term gains for society or the individual.  As the Sephardic Jewish philosopher, Maimonides, said in the 11th century, "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."  

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