Here is one more reason why the government has no business being in the business of charity:

One year after Katrina, the government is still squandering tens of millions of dollars in wasted disaster aid, including $17 million in bogus rental payments to people who had already received free trailers and apartments, federal investigators said Wednesday.

At the same time, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has recovered less than 1% of the $1 billion it wasted on fraudulent hurricane assistance after the August 2005 storm, highlighting a need for stronger controls the next time a major hurricane strikes.

The report by the Government Accountability Office paints a picture of an agency still struggling — at substantial taxpayer expense — to find the balance between distributing quick aid to those in need while guarding against substantial abuse.

This is a primary reason why smaller, more plentiful, non-centralized charitable organizations are far superior to government bureaucracy.  Smaller organizations actually take the time to determine the needs of those it serves, while large government quickly gets overwhelmed, and just decides to give to everyone, which invites fraud and waste.  And if too much fraud occurs in a private benevolence organization, then people will stop giving to it, and it will disappear.  When fraud is uncovered within the government, you can't stop giving to it, or you are thrown in jail.  As I said before, and I mean it, government needs to get out of the business of charity.