Reply #264: This progressive person (not a D) opposes Gov't $ for AFM and has a big problem with hunger in US

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- hunger that is completely avoidable, and is a result of politics, not food supply. Charity is not the answer - real jobs with real wages and an adequate safety system are needed - but since we dont'have those, I quarell with no one who submits to prayers in exchange for some soup: people do what they have to do to eat. But I greatly object to the government funding religion, and don't understand why some here just don't get that? Do you really think it is OK for tax $$ to fund religion? What about the Constitution?

There are other ways - even other charitable ways - to make sure that people are fed. Which is not to say - again, and I think it is so of others here criticizing AFM as well - that I think in any way ill of any person in need who uses AFM or any other means available to them to feed themselves and their family.

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