"I'm a slovenly liberal and he's a fastidious conservative."
"I smell a sit-com!"
-Family Guy
Ok, so as I was commenting on Clara's blog, I decided to make this theme a blog of my own: Wanna know the difference between a conservative and a liberal? Examine the meanings of the words themselves: liberal means generous; conservative means, well, if you wanna say stingy, I wouldn't go that far, but you get it. It's self-evident that liberality is a nicer idea than conservation. Giving things away to the poor, to the needy, to the deserving- wouldn't life be great if it were like a giant birthday party where everyone gave and no one lacked freedom, material basics, or fellowship? Yes. Yes it would be. But it's not in the notion of government, especially a minimalist government like America's, to give willy-nilly. Two reasons (at least) that govt. "charity" is a bad, impractical idea.
1) Too much overhead. Waste. You pay a dollar in taxes and by the time it's processed it's 80 cents (gotta pay the IRS!). Then it goes to Congress. There goes another 40 cents, etc etc, until it goes into paving the damned road and it's only 4 1/2 cents.
2) Taxpayers have no way to direct their "charity" money if the guvmint has the fianl say. For example, condoms in public schools.
The truth is that liberality has no place in guvmint. Charity comes from an indiviual and must go, if not directly to the beggar in the street, at least to a low-overhead group, secular or religious, who distribute your money themselves. It counts as virtue for NO ONE if you give money to the poor b/c it's raped out of your paycheck. You don't get any brownie points b/c you were forced, the guvmint don't get any brownie points cuz they the guvmint, and the poor people begin to see their welfare as a right instead of what it ought to be, charity.
More on this next post, including an explanation of my title.
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I was just having this conversation the other day, and it makes me sick to my stomach when you reach the inevitable point where the liberal looks at you and says, "Surely you don't mean to say that this poor mother with 23 children should starve to death under a bridge and not be able to get medicine for her triplets with diabetes?" The conservative IS evil, because we only care about our wallets. The conservative is NOT Christian because we don't want to be charitable. And then, heaven forbid you reach the point in the conversation where you say to the liberal, "But that is NOT the governments job!" Because by then you're just talkin' nonsense. mknjbhvgcfxdzsaqwertyuilop...
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