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<li><p>One can go/see/help the poor closser to home (New Orleans, for example).</p>
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<li>I don’t think any of these posts are about church sponsored programs or adult service programs, both of which have a much higher service quotient that the expensive teen “service” programs.</li>
<li>As for the perfumed oil, that story teaches (1) nothing is “wasted” on the son of G-D and (2) the poor are always with us (isn’t that when Jesus ssid the poor are here even when I am not?); it has nothing to do with waste or efficiency in general.</li>
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