When government funds a welfare entitlement by taxation, is that God's idea of loving a neighbor?

The welfare state is a bandaid on the cancer called capitalism. The government is only needed when markets fail. We have had many, many market failures.

The growth of government is directly proportional to the failures of free-market capitalism. If capitalism actually worked to promote a "general welfare" (Constitutional language for a thriving society that benefits all) government would be absolutely minimal. Even the founding fathers, however, realized that markets are not sufficient for promoting general welfare and explicitly assigned that duty to the Legislative Branch (removing it from the forces of laissez-faire economics and placing it WITHIN THE PURVIEW of government*).

Consider these programs and the market failures they ameliorate: Social Security- offsets low wages and the paradox of thrift Medicaid/Medicare- created to remedy the failed private health insurance market Antitrust Division of the DOJ- resists the monopolistic tendencies of capital FDA- created to watch for snake-oil salesmen FDIC- Insures bank deposits from the dangers of runs in a fractional reserve banking system OSHA- created to protect workers from employers who treat them as easily replaceable throwaway costs of doing business Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)- created to remedy failed Wall Street financial engineering Unemployment Insurance- well, you get the picture... Etc, etc, etc. Americans tried for a generation to keep failing markets going side by side with bailout government. We should now have learned the lesson that we need to reform our economy and abandon the failed market model. Unfortunately, conservatives have come to the erroneous conclusion that the government which bailed capitalism out from under its catastrophic internal contradictions is the problem.

Only total economic collapse will open their eyes to how the world has worked since the beginning of time. The New Testament Book of Acts; Chapter 4:32-35 (NIV) {All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they shared everything they had.

With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and much grace was upon them all. There were no needy persons among them. For from time to time those who owned lands or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales and put it at the apostles' feet, and it was distributed to anyone as he had need.

} "He who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth and he who gives gifts to the rich--both come to poverty."- Proverbs 22:16. Those ancient ethics have been lost to the re-emergence of selfishness and greed in the modern world. The irony is the same solutions used then to correct maldistribution of wealth are used today, but only to protect the gains of the rich.

The losses of the wealthy are socialized and their profits remains private. It is injustice on a scale future generations will look back on with surprise, amazement and disgust. "As to wealth, no citizen should be rich enough to be able to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself….

If, then, you wish to give stability to the State, bring the two extremes as near together as possible; tolerate neither rich people nor beggars. These two conditions, naturally inseparable, are equally fatal to the general welfare" - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, "The Social Contract" (1762).

It all depends on what you consider failure to be. If you define failure as an unsustainable stupid policy, it is. If you define it as a Progressive means to cause the Free Market system to collapse so they can step in and impose a Socialist form of wealth redistribution, it is succeeding or at least it was until 2010.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.