Where can I find this book? Under the fiction section right?
Show me any evidence that government welfare has pulled anyone out of poverty, rather than made its recepients a slave to it, and then I'll agree liberals are actually compassionate. Until there is evidence that welfare doesn't maintain poverty, I won't believe that.
Ryan Mc, you think he made it up?
Well I wouldn't be the best person to ask that question. I still think I will be receiving a letter from Hogwarts any day now.
Ofcourse statistically conservatives give more money, they have more. But that does not mean that proportiantly they give more at all, also actualy volunteer work is essential to any charity which I would guess liberals surpass conservatives.
Ofcourse statistically conservatives give more money, they have more.
I don't think conservatives are necessarily richer than liberals. And if they are, why tax people at a higher rate if that money would go to charity anyway?
volunteer work is essential to any charity which I would guess liberals surpass conservatives.
Churches do far more volunteer work than any liberal organizations.
And not all churches are packed with conservatives, either. Particularly not economic conservatives. Cutting social programs while cutting taxes for the wealthy is a moral values issue, and many church-going people realize that such a platform is socially unjust. While they may still vote for conservative candidates for otehr "moral" issues, to simply say that conservatives do more charity work because they all go to church and churches do more charity work is a stretch at best. How dare "conservatives" try to monopolize christianity and religion?
to simply say that conservatives do more charity work because they all go to church and churches do more charity work is a stretch at best. How dare "conservatives" try to monopolize christianity and religion?
On the aggregate, someone who is a frequent churchgoer (and therefore probably more likely to be involved in the church's charitable activities) tend to fit the profile of a "Bush voter" more so than Kerry.
I'm not saying that only conservatives go to church, just that
# of churchgoing cons > # churchgoing libs
depends on the congregation, area etc. tho it is conventional wisdom the more religious(protestant) the more conservative. Jewish, Catholics and Muslims traditionally were very liberal being a minority but now are becoming more conservative. But anyways to generalize any of those groups is just silly.
The truth is that conservatives and liberals are equally compassionate and equally generous. The difference is that conservatives are generous with their own money, while liberals are generous with other people's money.
Bar none, Friedman was a genius. The repubs on this site should wake and realize that being a true fiscal conservative and being a republican are mutually exclusive. You want to live in the true individualist utopia? The real Galt's Gulch? Then embrace libertarianism. It's the ONLY party that has stayed true to Friedman's ideas of anarcho-capitalism.
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