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Rebecca Smit's avatar

Cut the bureaucracy, he urged, so that “transparency and accountability serve people rather than impede assistance.” What a wonderful concept!

Nancy Stone's avatar

It sounds like MAGA people don’t understand treating people with dignity and providing aid as needed. MAGA people don’t understand the so called wealth of the Vatican.

Mark terrell's avatar

Acess to food and clean water is a human right. So too is access to real health-care when needed and housing when needed.

Jonathan Jacobson's avatar

Hmm, so Pope Leo's libertarian critics argue that "'access' to anything is not a fundamental human right when it depends on the labor of others to be provided." But wait, doesn't our "access" to life outside the womb depend on the labor of our mothers? The notion that we can live independently of other humans ignores the dependence of young children on their parents, and sometimes elderly parents on their children. Systems of social solidarity broader than the nuclear family are justified by the reality that the nuclear family isn't always sufficient to provide for the well-being of its members.

Virginia's avatar

Someone, probably the only someone who would be taken seriously, said this.