Obama tours storm damage, Romney mutes rhetoric

President Barack Obama, left, embraces Donna Vanzant, right, during a tour of a neighborhood effected by superstorm Sandy, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012 in Brigantine, N.J. Vanzant is a owner of North Point Marina, which was damaged by the storm. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

President Barack Obama, left, embraces Donna Vanzant, right, during a tour of a neighborhood effected by superstorm Sandy, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012 in Brigantine, N.J. Vanzant is a owner of North Point Marina, which was damaged by the storm. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

President Barack Obama is greeted by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie upon his arrival at Atlantic City International Airport, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, in Atlantic City, NJ. Obama traveled to the region to take an aerial tour of the Atlantic Coast in New Jersey in areas damaged by superstorm Sandy, (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney waves during a campaign stop at the Bank United Center, at The University of Miami, in Coral Gables, Florida, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Marine One, carrying President Barack Obama and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, take an aerial tour of the Atlantic Coast in New Jersey in areas damaged by superstorm Sandy, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Doug Mills, Pool)

Republican vice presidential candidate, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., holds up his camouflage covered iPhone while speaking during a campaign event in Green Bay, Wis., Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

BRIGANTINE, N.J. (AP) ? President Barack Obama soberly toured the destruction wrought by superstorm Sandy on Wednesday in the company of New Jersey's Republican governor and assured victims "we will not quit" until cleanup and recovery are complete. Six days before their hard-fought election, rival Mitt Romney muted criticism of Obama as he barnstormed battleground Florida.

Forsaking partisan politics for the third day in a row, the president helicoptered with Gov. Chris Christie over washed-out roads, flooded homes, boardwalks bobbing in the ocean and, in Seaside Heights, a fire still burning after ruining about eight structures.

Back on the ground, the president introduced one local woman to "my guy Craig Fugate." In a plainspoken demonstration of the power of the presidency, Obama instructed the man at the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, a 7,500-employee federal agency, to "make sure she gets the help she needs" immediately.

Despite the tour and Romney's own expressions of sympathy for storm victims ? a break on the surface from heated campaigning ? a controversy as heated as any in the long, intense struggle for the White House flared over the Republican challenger's new television and radio ads in Ohio.

"Desperation," Vice President Joe Biden said of the broadcast claims that suggested automakers General Motors and Chrysler are adding jobs in China at the expense of workers in the bellwether state. "One of the most flagrantly dishonest ads I can ever remember."

Republicans were unrepentant as Romney struggled for a breakthrough in the Midwest.

"American taxpayers are on track to lose $25 billion as a result of President Obama's handling of the auto bailout, and GM and Chrysler are expanding their production overseas," said an emailed statement issued in the name of Republican running mate Paul Ryan.

The two storms ? one inflicted by nature, the other whipped up by rival campaigns ? were at opposite ends of a race nearing its end in a flurry of early balloting by millions of voters, unrelenting advertising and so many divergent polls that the result was confusion, not clarity.

National surveys make the race a tight one for the popular vote, with Romney ahead by a statistically insignificant point or two in some, and Obama in others.

Both sides claim an advantage from battleground state soundings that also are tight. Obama's aides contend he is ahead or tied in all of them, while Romney's team counters that his campaign is expanding in its final days into what had long been deemed safe territory for the president in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Minnesota.

The storm added yet another element of uncertainty, as Obama spent a third straight day embracing his role as incumbent and Romney tried to tread lightly during a major East Coast disaster.

The president received a briefing at the Federal Emergency Management Agency across town from the White House before flying to New Jersey, where the shoreline absorbed some of the worst damage in a storm that killed 50 and laid waste to New York City's electrical and transportation systems.

Christie was waiting when Air Force One landed, and he and Obama, two figures in blue windbreakers, walked together toward the president's helicopter to begin their tour. It was a tableau that seemed impossible a week ago ? a president struggling to defend his economic record in a tight election, flying off to a non-battleground state to spend the afternoon in the company of the man who delivered the keynote address at Romney's Republican National Convention this summer.

Three hours later, the two men spoke of one another in glowing terms.

"He has sprung into action immediately," said Christie.

Said Obama of the governor, "He has put his heart and soul into making sure the people of New Jersey bounce back stronger than before."

The storm forced an abrupt change in Romney's campaign, as well.

In Tampa, the Republican challenger said, "We love all of our fellow citizens. We come together at times like this, and we want to make sure that they have a speedy and quick recovery from their financial and, in many cases, personal loss." His criticism of Obama was glancing. "I don't just talk about change. I actually have a plan to execute change and make it happen."

Romney was spending the full day in the state, campaigning with former Gov. Jeb Bush. It was an unusual commitment of time in the final days of a close race, and an indication that Republicans view the state and its 29 electoral votes as anything but secure.

The debate was ferocious over Romney's broadcast ads. The radio version said that after Obama's auto bailout, General Motors has "cut 15,000 American jobs, but they are planning to double the number of cars built in China which means 15,000 more jobs for China.

"And now comes word that Chrysler is starting to build cars in, you guessed it, China."

Biden termed the ads scurrilous. He said that executives from General Motors and Chrysler, which produces Jeeps, had said the claims were inaccurate.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the truth is, just recently in the last couple of months, in Toledo, Ohio, not only is the Jeep plant open and churning out Jeeps, they announced they're adding 1,100 new jobs."

Ryan's emailed response conceded nothing. "President Obama has chosen not to run on the facts of his record, but he can't run from them," it said.

His reference to a $25 billion cost to taxpayers reflected the Treasury Department's most recent estimate of the amount General Motors and Chrysler still owe the government from the financing it received during a managed bankruptcy in 2009.

Ryan didn't mention that the two companies have repaid billions more than that. Nor did he refer to Obama's frequent claim that the administration's bailout, which Romney opposed, saved large numbers of jobs and prevented the collapse of the U.S. auto industry itself.

Obama's aides said the president would return to political travel on Thursday with stops in Wisconsin, Nevada and Colorado. But for one more day, he was hands-on commander of the federal response to Sandy, and consoler-in-chief for its victims.

Obama's New Jersey itinerary included a community center in Brigantine Beach that is serving as a shelter for local storm victims. Officials said about 200 people were sleeping in the center's gym at the height of the storm, a number that has been reduced.

The political impact of the storm on the race was difficult to gauge.

Obama senior adviser David Axelrod told reporters it had "tended to freeze this race" in place because "people are focused on the storm. That's what's been in the news."

Not everyone, and not all the time.

In the race's final days, Romney's campaign aired ads in Minnesota and Pennsylvania, two states long considered safe for the president. Republican's allies are airing commercials in Michigan and New Mexico.

Obama's aides insisted the states were safe for him, but it dispatched former President Bill Clinton to Minnesota, and purchased airtime in the other three states to respond to the Republicans.

Both campaigns invested in get-out-the-vote operations in the run-up to Election Day.

Officials in Florida said more than 2.6 million ballots had been cast as of Tuesday night. Democrats voted in slightly higher numbers than Republicans, but nearly 450,000 voters were independents.

___

Associated Press writers Steve Peoples and Kasie Hunt in Florida, Philip Elliott in Eau Claire, Wis., Ben Feller, Charles Babington, Ken Thomas, Martin Crutsinger and Stacy A. Anderson in Washington, Matthew Daly in Sarasota, Fla., Brian Bakst in St. Paul, Minn., and Brendan Farrington in Tallahassee, Fla., contributed to this report. Espo reported from Washington.

Associated Press

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Best Laid Plans: Life Vs Home Improvement - Blogs | Babble

We have been planning for over a month now to redo the stairs. I?ve searched for ideas, bought the supplies, and scheduled no less than 3 work days. It seemed like a fairly simple process ? pull up the carpet, paint the stairs, choose a decorating scheme.

Then, life happened.

At first, we had trouble finding a free weekend. There was volleyball, soccer, Girl Scouts, and school activities. Once we made it through the sports? seasons, we had a little more time on our hands. I thought for sure we?d be able to tackle the project in just a few hours. Yeah, I?m hilarious.

On our first planned work weekend, the tween was diagnosed with scarlet fever (no, seriously) so the weekend was spent hauling her to the doctor, then the urgent care center, and then to the pharmacy. We spent the rest of the weekend nursing her back to health and keeping the children separated.

I can?t even remember what happened the next weekend, but I know the work day disappeared before I even knew it. Finally, I just started ripping out the carpet. I thought I could at least see what it would take to make it happen. The next thing I knew, I had ripped all the carpet out and was pretty much locked into the project.

I removed nails, pulled up carpet tack, and scraped old drywall mud. When the hubby arrived home and saw what I was doing, he didn?t even roll his eyes before pitching in and finishing the job. The stairs are clear ? and I already love it so much more than the old, ratty carpet.

That was when I realized the stairs needed a little trim work before they could be finished. There were a few gaps here and there, due to the builders not taking the time to finish them properly. After all, they probably never imagined an insane woman ripping out the carpet one random Saturday night.

By that point, Home Depot was closed so our project was on hold. And Sunday was already booked. The rest of the week was fall break, with family fun activities and kids underfoot all day. Today was supposed to be another work day, but I hadn?t considered the evening?s plans with this idea. The girls are having friends spend the night, which makes dealing with wet paint a little difficult.

Okay, so tomorrow, right? Except by the time all our visitors are home, we still have the problem of finishing the job and getting the paint dried before the girls need to go up stairs for bed. And, this is a problem every weekend ? the girls are around, the pets are in the way. How do we paint stairs in a busy house?

I think we?ll have to get started early one morning, right after the girls are at school. Even if the stairs are not dried before they get home, at least we?ll have a few more hours to bedtime. Now, who wants to keep 2 cats and a dog while we paint?

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We?ve heard it before, and we?re hearing it again. Europeans really, really, really don?t like the Patriot Act. The specter of an American cloud company turning data on European citizens over to the feds is slowing cloud adoption on the continent, said Christian Echeyne, director of IT infrastructure technologies and engineering for Orange Business Services.

?We see that fear in France and in all Europe ? probably less in the Anglo-Saxon world and more in eastern and southern Europe ? France, Italy and Spain,? he said, speaking at Structure Europe 2012.

Another gating factor on cloud: Europeans distrust outsourcing more than North Americans. ?There is a delegation process ? there?s less outsourcing in Europe than in the US and not just in IT by the way. Cloud is another form of outsourcing ? it?s delegating something you were doing yourself to someone who can do it better,? he said.

European companies are very interested in cloud but they?ll watch how the early adopters fare before trying it themselves.

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Energy Facts, And A Few Fibs, On Display At Presidential Debate

A question from a voter at Tuesday evening's town hall debate -- regarding whether it was within the purview of the government to control the price of gas -- sent President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney into a war of words over energy policy, and neither actually answered the question.

Instead, both candidates introduced some of the same energy talking points that have animated the campaign for months, though as presented, Romney's charges held the least amount of water. He blamed the Obama administration, for example, for the fact that gas prices have doubled over the last four years, and he hammered the president for stalling oil and gas production by curtailing leases on federal land, and for introducing policies that will run the coal industry into the ground. Romney also argued that he is a supporter of renewable energy -- just not to the exclusion of fossil fuels.

Obama, meanwhile, largely touted his record on both fossil fuels and renewable energy investments, though he sometimes took credit for things that aren't entirely in his control. Let's run down some of the assertions.

GOVERNMENT AND GASOLINE PRICES

The answer to the voter's original question, of course, is that, generally speaking, administration policy has minimal impact on gas prices. Oil is a global commodity, and its price is set by, and subject to the whims of, a global energy market over which an American president has little control. Increasing domestic drilling -- a key part of the Romney energy plan introduced in August -- won't significantly alter the price at the pump. As the Congressional Budget Office noted in May, more U.S. oil on the world market would almost certainly be offset by adjustments in production by other countries, all but erasing any price impacts.

A 2011 report from the Federal Trade Commission provides a useful primer on the factors that tend to influence gas price fluctuations.

Romney's charge that gas prices have doubled over the last four years is roughly true, and it has been a popular talking point since the Republican primaries. However, gas prices plummeted with the collapse of the economy in late 2008, just as Obama was taking office, and the doubling has really only restored prices -- though not quite fully -- to where they were prior to the recession, or more to the point, prior to Obama. As data from the Energy Information Administration shows, retail gas prices were also climbing steadily under the eight years of the Bush administration, hitting a high in the summer of 2008. Bush can't really be blamed for that increase any more than Obama.

INCREASED FUEL ECONOMY

The current president can very much take credit -- and he did so at this evening's debate -- for tough new fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks. Those standards may not impact the price of gas at the pump, but they do mean that by 2025, drivers will be getting almost twice as many miles per gallon, on average, than they are now.

Romney has come out in opposition to those new fuel economy standards, and has said that he would even roll back existing standards that would have cars reaching an average of 35.5 miles per gallon by 2016.

DOMESTIC OIL AND GAS

The question of domestic gas and oil production generally is bit murkier. Obama is fond of noting that oil and natural gas industries have surged under his administration, but he can't really claim full credit for the upswing. For starters, much of the increased oil production has come from the exploitation of previously unreachable stores of shale oil in the Bakken formation underlying Montana and North Dakota. The vast majority of this has been on private and state lands. The natural gas boom -- including in the contentious Marcellus shale region of the Northeast -- was also already well underway before Obama came into office, and here too, much of the development has been on private and state lands that Obama has little influence over.

As EIA administrator Adam Sieminski noted in Congressional testimony in August, "The geology is working in favor of non-federal landowners."

That said, Romney's charge that Obama is somehow choking fossil fuel production in the U.S. is demonstrably false -- and public lands are part of the picture. Roughly 241 million more barrels of oil were produced from public lands in the first three years of Obama's presidency, for example, than were produced during the last three years of the Bush administration. It is true that permitting on federal lands has dropped under Obama's watch, according to the Bureau of Land Management, which oversees oil and gas leasing. But Obama's Department of the Interior rightly points out that oil and gas companies are sitting on tens of millions of leased public acres -- offshore and onshore -- that they simply haven't developed yet.

"These lands and waters belong to the American people, and they expect those energy supplies to be developed in a timely and responsible manner and with a fair return to taxpayers," said Interior Ken Secretary Salazar last May. "We will continue to encourage companies to diligently bring production online quickly and safely on public lands already under lease."

It's worth noting that Romney's energy plan would give over control of the nation's public lands -- national parks, conservation areas, and the like -- to individual states, where they would almost certainly be more rapidly exploited by fossil fuel prospectors. Meanwhile, that energy plan has almost nothing to say about renewable energy. Romney, in fact, has called for the elimination of a wind production tax credit that is seen by most analysts as crucial for the fledgling industry's survival -- even as he continues to support tax breaks for fossil fuel producers.

FRIENDS OF COAL

Finally, the candidates continued to battle over who is a bigger friend to the coal industry, with Obama arguing that Romney himself has described coal as a scourge on human health and Romney countering that the Obama administration's policies, via the Environmental Protection Agency, will kill off the coal industry entirely. It's true that Romney did, as governor of Massachusetts, stage a photo-op in front of a polluting coal plant in his home state back in 2003. "I will not create jobs, or hold jobs, that kill people," he declared at the time. "And that plant, that plant kills people."

But while Obama has made pursuit of "clean coal" a key part of his energy platform, his attempt to appeal to coal country by trotting out that old chestnut of Romney's has earned him rebukes from both the coal industry and environmental groups alike. At the same time, Romney's charges that new EPA pollution standards are killing the coal industry are not quite true either. Coal production dropped with the recession, though it has been gaining ground again.

Still, the fuel source is no longer the dominant player in the country's energy portfolio that it once was -- not because of tougher regulations, but because the country has a glut of cheap natural gas.

Coal industry insiders argue that the regulations will make it impossible for the industry to recover once natural gas prices begin inching upward again -- but it's worth remembering that employment in the coal industry has been dropping off for quite some time, due to increased mechanization and the transition to less manpower-intensive surface mining.

WHITHER CLIMATE CHANGE?

For all of the back and forth over energy policy, one of the biggest issues that many voters wanted to see addressed, climate change, was all but ignored on Tuesday evening -- again.

?It?s preposterous that both candidates spent so much of the precious few minutes dedicated to energy policy tonight fighting over whose vague plan would fry the planet," said Maura Cowley, executive director of the Energy Action Coalition, a coalition of youth-led environmental and social justice groups, in an emailed statement. "Beefing up America?s reliance on oil, gas, and coal and doubling down on fossil fuels endangers our future, and it?s time the candidates recognized that and moved us past yesterday?s energy sources."

For her part, the debate's moderator, CNN's chief political correspondent Candy Crowley, said after the debate that she'd had a question on climate change prepared. As HuffPost's own Michael Calderone noted via Twitter, however, she just ran out of time.

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Report: Imprisoned Dutch killer to be father

FILE - In this June 4, 2010, file photo, Dutch citizen Joran van der Sloot is escorted by police officers outside a Peruvian police station, near the border with Chile in Tacna, Peru. A Dutch newspaper said on Monday, Oct. 8, 2012, that Joran van der Sloot, who is serving a 28-year-sentence for murdering a young Peruvian woman, has impregnated a woman while imprisoned in Lima. (AP Photo/Karel Navarro, File)

FILE - In this June 4, 2010, file photo, Dutch citizen Joran van der Sloot is escorted by police officers outside a Peruvian police station, near the border with Chile in Tacna, Peru. A Dutch newspaper said on Monday, Oct. 8, 2012, that Joran van der Sloot, who is serving a 28-year-sentence for murdering a young Peruvian woman, has impregnated a woman while imprisoned in Lima. (AP Photo/Karel Navarro, File)

LIMA, Peru (AP) ? A newspaper reported Monday that Joran van der Sloot, a Dutch man who is serving a 28-year-sentence for murdering a young Peruvian woman, says he is going to be a father. His attorney said the inmate does have a conjugal visitor, though he could not confirm she was pregnant.

The Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf said Van der Sloot, a suspect in the 2005 disappearance of U.S. teenager Natalee Holloway, himself told it in a telephone call on Saturday that "a test has proved" the pregnancy.

Van der Sloot's attorney Maximo Altez, told The Associated Press that a woman named Leidy Figueroa Uceda "is registered as a conjugal visitor of Joran. She is registered in the visitors books of the Piedras Gordas prison in Lima."

He denied, however, that he had told the newspaper he could confirm the pregnancy.

"I told them I didn't know anything in that respect," he said.

News media in Peru last year identified Figueroa as Van der Sloot's girlfriend, and said they had conceived a son together, but she denied it.

De Telegraaf said Van der Sloot told it that the woman uses the birth control pill but had apparently forgotten to take it and she would not have an abortion due to her Catholic faith. He said he didn't have DNA proof the child is his, but he believes it to be.

Recorded messages on Monday indicated that two telephone numbers registered to Figueroa had been cancelled.

Van der Sloot is a self-described liar, having confessed to killing Holloway and later retracting the confessions. He is the last person known to have seen her alive.

He was convicted for the 2010 robbing and killing of Stephany Flores in a Lima hotel room after meeting her in a nearby casino. He is wanted by authorities in the U.S. for allegedly extorting money from the Holloway family on the promise of revealing the location of her body.

He could resist extradition to the United States, where is wanted in the Holloway case, if he obtains Peruvian nationality. That would be a possibility if he becomes the father of a Peruvian child or if he marries a Peruvian citizen.

Van der Sloot is appealing his conviction.

___

Toby Sterling reported from Amsterdam.

Associated Press

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Why is there a Vincent dePaul Society? | FAMVIN News

?It is good when we are challenged to sum things up in a single idea. It?s hard, but it?s good.? Dr. John Falzon, CEO of the SVDP in Australia addresses the issue in his presentation to the Society?s National Youth congress.

?Recently I had the delightful experience of speaking at the Society?s National Youth Congress in Melbourne and I decided that it would be a good opportunity to try and present a very simple message about what the St Vincent de Paul Society is and why we exist.

I thought about the history of the Society, about our founding charism, our ethos, our mission, our vision and then about ?the tradition we have come from: the Greek Scriptures and then, going back even further, the Hebrew Scriptures.

I kept coming back, however, to the simplicity of the observation, quoted in the last edition of The Record by our National President, Anthony Thornton, made by the late bishop of San Cristobal de las Casas in Mexico, Samuel Ruiz Garcia:??The only question we will have to answer at the end of time is ?how we treated the poor.?

I love this simple claim. It says everything we need to know.?It tells us that, like Frederic and his companions, we must allow ourselves to be tipped over to the side, and the ?philosophy of those who have no bread..

For this is the core story of both the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures: that God is on the side of the poor and that to take the side of the poor is to know God:??He defended the cause of the ?poor and the needy; This is good.Is not this what it means to know me? It is Yahweh who speaks.? (Jeremiah 22:16)

It is a confronting message but it is also ?one of enormous comfort for it tells us unequivocally that our hope for a different kind of world is hope that is born in the heart of our social reality.This message finds its most human expression in the Incarnation, when this?message, the Word, becomes flesh and lives amongst us.Jesus, the Word made flesh, makes no bones about the radicalism of the message:

?Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.
Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you will be filled.
Blessed are you who weep now,?for you will laugh.
Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you, revile you, and defame you on account of the?Son of Man.
Rejoice in that Day and leap for joy, for surely your reward is great in heaven; for that is what their ancestors did to the prophets.
But woe to you who are rich, ?for you have received your consolation.
Woe to you who are?full now, for you will be hungry.
Woe to you who are laughingnow, for you will mourn and weep.
Woe to you when all speak?well of you, for that is what?their ancestors did to the false?prophets.?(Luke 6: 17-26)

The beatitudes, as Oscar Romero was fond of pointing out, turn everything upside down. but the tradition they are born from is one that has always sought to turn things upside down. The prophet Isaiah, for example, writes beautifully of the way that this tradition views the world. Isaiah 3:15 has God passing judgement on the wealthy ruling elite, condemning their exploitation and oppression of the people and directly linking this injustice to the accumulation of their wealth:
?It is you who have devoured the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses. What do you mean by crushing my
people, by grinding the face of the poor??

It is absolutely clear that the people that God refers to as ?my people? are neither an ethnic group nor a religious group; they are the poor.
It is then no surprise that Jesus should teach that our lives are to be measured only ?in relation to those with whom God has unconditionally sided:
?I was hungry and you gave me to eat.
I was thirsty and you gave me?to drink.
I was a stranger and you took me in;
Sick and you visited me;
Imprisoned and you came to see me.? (Matthew 25: 35 -36)

It is also no surprise that we should be told in the story describing the earliest beginnings of the community of believers that ?they recognised him in the breaking of the bread.? (Luke 24:35)

This is important. It is no coincidence that the act that is presented as the one in which Christ is consistently recognised is the breaking of the bread, the sharing of food. The resonance of this act is rich with the biblical tradition of bread being the basic stuff of human sustenance, the fair distribution of which is the measure of justice and therefore the measure of knowing God.

We continue to live in a time when the bread of the world is not shared by all the people of the world. To be tipped over to the side of the poor, to the philosophy of those who have no bread, is to truly recognise him in the breaking of the bread. The bread of basic sustenance and the wine of joy and delight in life are both essential in this transformative project of creating a new society in which no one is denied either the basics of life or the joys of life. This is why the St Vincent de Paul Society holds that all of our sisters and brothers have the right to appropriate housing, adequate income, employment, education and health along with the right to meet their not-so-material?needs such as: spiritual sustenance, cultural?activity, sport and recreation, the love?and support of other people, a sense of?belonging, and freedom from prejudice.

This is why we oppose measures such as compulsory income management that might meet the material needs of people but fail to meet their right to dignity and respect, ?grinding the face of the poor?.

It is also why the late bishop Samuel Ruiz Garcia nailed it when he said: ?The only question we will have to answer at the end?of time is how we treated the?poor.?

Sometimes we can make the fatal mistake of thinking that the love that is taught in the Scriptures can be practised by looking
down on someone and feeling pity for them. This is what gives birth to both the atrocious paternalism and the demeaning attitude of seeing people as belonging to the ?deserving poor? or the ?undeserving poor? who can expect nothing but punitive treatment and moralising judgement. Nothing could be
more offensive or contrary to the Gospel.

The love that we are called to is both compassion and solidarity. It means taking sides with the people who are devalued and demonised, the ?dangerous classes?. It also means learning from the people who have the most to teach us about what would make a just and compassionate society; the people who are living in the hope that another kind of world is possible; the people who cannot afford the luxury of defeatism or despair and who cannot live within the current status quo which rests on structures that destroy humanity and foster inequality.

To paraphrase Lilla Watson, our liberation as human beings is fundamentally bound up with the liberation of all who are crushed by the structures of injustice.

This is why the St Vincent de Paul Society was founded. This is why, to use Frederic?s powerful phrase, based on the parable of the
Good Samaritan, we seek to not only tend to the wounds but also to stop the blows. ?

Dr Falzon is the Chief executive of the St Vincent de Paul Society National Council.

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Source: http://famvin.org/en/2012/10/07/why-is-there-a-vincent-depaul-society/

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