Reply #86: True. But I would reply,

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government assistance is not necessary to ensure bank profits, yet, we somehow saw a great need to bail out banks and make sure their executives got their bonuses. On the other hand, hunger is a need that doesn't need to be devised or created - basically, if you are a form of life, you will get hungry for food and water.

I guess it boils down to where you want to direct your taxpayer resources - bombs, tanks, guns and weapons? Or food for hungry people and their children? It's not a mutually exclusive choice, but you are correct that righties make it seem like it is, or alternatively, that warfare is a better use of taxpayer money than feeding poor people.