Reply #3: It's difficult to comprehend them, but from what I understand...

[Selatius]

it's not that they don't want to help them. They simply would rather leave the issue up to charity and the kindness of strangers to lend a helping hand. It's funny because if you go to their churches they have canned food drives and things of that sort to help the local poor and homeless, but when you get them on the issues, they vote against social programs to alleviate poverty. Anytime you mention government, they automatically think the government is bad news.

To be sure, some of them vote against social programs because they're of the business class and would lose out as far as money goes, but for the majority of them, they are simply trapped into their own belief system about charity as opposed to taxation.