3. Liberal politicians dupe you into feeling really good about handing
over your hard-earned money so they can spend it for you. And the Republican party fits squarely into the liberal camp as
well, now. “Republican” or “Democrat” - these are just labels that
really don’t mean anything anymore. Conservative ideals say you learn
how to be personally responsible for yourself, and you make your own determination about who needs your help and for how long. Conservatives believe
in helping others because being generous is just the right thing to do,
but they also believe that helping people doesn’t always mean throwing
money and material goods at them. Conservatives believe that the best
way to help others is one on one. Liberalism says, cede control to the
State and we’ll make your decisions for you, whether it’s about who to
give to, or what you need from us. We’ll take care of you. Yeah,
they’ll take care of me alright. The constituents of liberals are often
either the recipients of this government munificence, or they’re the
ones who would rather not be face to face with anyone needing love and
care. Conservatives consistently give more money to charity and a
larger percentage of their income than liberals, who would rather just
make everyone else do it via taxation (which is a mirage anyway - how
much of our tax money actually goes to helping people and how much goes
to overhead?). If I hand $5 to the disabled vet asking for money, he
gets $5. If I give $5 to the government to “give” to the disabled vet, he gets $.50. (This is only an
estimate - it could be much worse than that.)
Mar 09
Mar 05
I wrote this big long rant yesterday and then ended up marking it private. I get kind of blunt when I’m feeling passionate about something and while it’s totally the truth, seems sometimes there are better ways to word things. So I decided to break up that post in to snippets and re-word somethings. Here’s the first snippet.
1. One thing I want to say right now is that eliminating or reducing tax deductions for charitable giving is pretty much counter to the idea of taking care of the poor, hello? ‘Splain that one to me, Lucy. The government doesn’t really want us to be compassionate and charitable, it just wants us to feel good about giving the government our money.