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The Wonderful Life of Private Charity - YouTube

Channel: Foundation for Economic Education

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Oh golly I just can't go on living I

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tell you what Oh No

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what's wrong sir the world would be

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better off without me I'm selfish I've

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done nothing for the poor why would you

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say that no I don't work for the

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government come again

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according to your record you've done all

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sorts of good things for the community

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volunteered at soup kitchens cleaned up

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litter looked after family and friends

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you even ran a small business which

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employed people I'd say you've had a

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pretty positive impact but I have been

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able to do so much if I had just worked

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for a government agency it's smooth

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you'll never be as good a person as me

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hmm I don't know about that what if the

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best way to contribute to the well-being

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of the community is without government

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Oh golly this is where I used to help

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feed to the needy

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sure is and you did a whole lot better

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than some public agency ever could

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volunteering for private charities is a

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great way for community members to help

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one another isn't that the best feeling

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in the world

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there sure is one of the most meaningful

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and personal things there is to feel

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that's right then a lot of times

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government programs that seek to help

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the poor create an ineffective and

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impersonal environment where it's

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impossible to put a face to who's

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helping you and who's being helped but

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charity is most successful when it's

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personal 71% of all contributions to

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charity are from private individuals and

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that number rises to 80 percent if you

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include all the money the deceased have

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left to charities and their will but

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private individuals are greedy the only

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way we can really act as a community is

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through government no in fact this last

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year in the US charitable donations

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exceeded 390 billion dollars which is an

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all-time high what the government spends

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roughly one trillion on the war on

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poverty every year how can the market

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compete how did who chip how did you

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know that who just knows that you have a

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lot of statistics it's okay I do too

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government programs are far less

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effective than private charities not

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only for the reasons laid out earlier

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but because roughly

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70% of all money budgeted for government

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assistance gets spent upholding and

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maintaining the bureaucracies charged

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with the task of helping the poor when

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you pay taxes for the war on poverty

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it's more likely that your money will

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end up in the pocket of a middle-class

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public sector worker than with a poor

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person in need well that doesn't sound

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good for the community at all they

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really only end up spending 30% of all

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the money they receive on the poor yep

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now compare that to private charities

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which only spend 30% on infrastructure

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and employees and the other 70% of well

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gosh it's almost as if communities will

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care for their own without being forced

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by the government I guess I am helping

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the community and I shouldn't jump off

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this bridge people have hearts you can't

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trust them to help each other on their

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own you should jump off the bridge you

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should jump off the bridge and you

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should do a backflip ah this guy well

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it's true that people are sometimes

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greedy but if that's the case what's to

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prevent individuals operating from

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within the state system from being

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greedy themselves politicians are people

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too you know that's a good point

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now at the end of the day every

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community is its own unique complex

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ecosystem which knows best how to

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fulfill its own needs and most

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importantly community is by definition

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voluntary you can't really force someone

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to be a part of your community through

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laws and regulations well gosh I guess

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you're right what I help the community I

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do so because I care about those around

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me not because the government bullied me

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into doing so oh you fools there are so

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many people who need your help I mean

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what kind of people would you be if you

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didn't contract bureaucrats hundreds of

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miles away to do the work for you good

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members of the community hey folks thank

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you so much for watching if you enjoyed

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