Money getting hard to get for charities

This morning I was looking at the schedule of delivers of Meals on Wheels when Charlie Walker came in and said  the program is over.  He said the program is out of money and cannot raise funds to keep it going.  That is a shame as shut-ins and elderly have received meals delivered to them Monday through Thursday each week.  For some people that is the only hot and  balanced meal they get.

This is an example of what happens when the economy is bad.  Needs are greater while funds to meet those needs get scarcer and scarcer.  For some reason my name is on the lists of many charitable organizations and, while many requests often sound urgent, I have noticed recently a note of desperation in some letters.  And now our president wants to spend billions repairing bridges and  playgrounds, while to pay for this he wants to tax charitable groups like soup kitchens.  We need the government to get out the way and let the private sector grow and create jobs for the millions now unemployed.  Getting people back to work and paying taxes instead of them costing money will give us a healthy economy again.  Turn the oil and gas industry loose to produce all this country's energy and eliminate the stupid regulations imposed upon us by EPA and other government bureaucracies.