@joefromchicago,
Christ saying to take care of others is not saying go socialist and let a government administer it. EVERY place where socialism has been used has been an utter mess. It has never lifted up any population anywhere, anytime.
If someone needs food and you offer a sandwich and they accept, that is a moral transaction. But that is not what socialism is. Socialism is a leader, Obama, riding up on the scene on his mount, the government, and Telling the person with the food to give food to the one without, or he, Obama, will shoot the one with food with some sort of weapon like the IRS, EPA, FBI, and/or any other bureaucracy he can lay hands on. Thus, the utility functions of the government are turned into political apparatchiks, the one without food gets the stinking thinking of entitlement, the one threatened gets the stinking thinking that there really is no point in working or being productive since some government pig will take it away, and the bureaucracy gets the stinking thinking that they are vital in the wrong ways to the country.
That's why.