{"id":7479,"date":"2010-02-14T17:04:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T22:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=7479"},"modified":"2010-02-14T17:04:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T22:04:06","slug":"poverty-reduction-in-the-diocese-of-niagara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/poverty-reduction-in-the-diocese-of-niagara\/","title":{"rendered":"Poverty reduction in the Diocese of Niagara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.peacockpoverty.org\/2010\/02\/14\/blueprint-for-poverty-reduction-legacy-for-an-inclusive-ontario-25in5\/\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a> is a letter from Bishop Michael Bird to the Hon. Deb Matthews, June 2008:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bishop Michael Bird, Anglican Diocese of Niagara<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the short term, we realize that charity and compassion are essential when people are suffering and we will continue to respond to the needs of our neighbours. But for too long, faith and community groups , individuals, volunteers and social service agencies and ministries have carried a disproportionate load in meeting the needs of individuals at the local community level . . .<br \/>\nWe recognize that we all have a role to play to reduce poverty, however, only government can accomplish the structural change to law, programs and policies that are essential for a successful poverty reduction strategy. <strong>Only government can re- allocate the resources of society more equitably through its regulatory and taxing powers and increase its funding of social programs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please hear our communities call for social justice.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There you have it: the Diocese of Niagara\u2019s plan to reduce poverty is government enforced wealth redistribution. Hasn\u2019t that been tried before?\u00a0 Oh yes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tbray.org\/ongoing\/When\/200x\/2005\/05\/01\/Hammer_sickle_clean.png\" alt=\"Add an Image\" width=\"413\" height=\"413\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a letter from Bishop Michael Bird to the Hon. Deb Matthews, June 2008: Bishop Michael Bird, Anglican Diocese of Niagara \u201cIn the short term, we realize that charity and compassion are essential when people are suffering and we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/poverty-reduction-in-the-diocese-of-niagara\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[2111],"class_list":["post-7479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-niagara","tag-diocese-of-niagara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}