It always amazes me, while at the same time disappointing me (but somehow I guess not really surprising me) when someone takes a look at how our society's most vocal proponents of new government programs to ease the suffering of the zillions of homeless, hungry, or other wise downtrodden Americans actually spend their own money toward easing the suffering of humanity.
This morning I found this story from "The Hill" mentioning that Sara Palin's family gave more to charity in the past two years than Joe Biden gave in the past eight years combined.
Isn't that special?
What's up with liberals--even wealthy ones--that believe in coming to my front door and my office with a gun and police powers of arrest and forcing me to hand over thirty or forty percent of my money so they can put diapers and food in the mouths of minority and illegal alien's babies, while at the same time bringing home what's left of their giant paychecks and keeping all of their dough for themselves and their BMW's gaping gas tanks?
Of course when you think about it this story surfaces every few years with some regularity, but the media just downplays it as being in the category of the "ignorant christian rubes" versus the "highly educated elite," with the rubes fecklessly squandering their money because if the government doesn't decide how to do it then there obviously can be no positive effect.
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2005/11/generosity_inde.htmlBased on the stupidity and waste that is consistently found in every single government program, imagine all of the things that are not being accomplished because the government steals the money and wastes and spends it under the name of "Charity" when it almost always ends up being welfare for the inept and wealthy?
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