Christine, please understand that I don't disagree with anything you said. And if you don't want to argue, I am more than happy not to do so. The difference between you and me, IMHO, is that I don't think government should be in the business of saving those poorest citizens, those poor who prey on the rich in their desperation, the children, and so on. I am not FT, I am not a disciple of Ayn Rand, I think that the people you talk about should be saved, but I think not by government. Not nameless, faceless bureaucrats funded by tax-payer dollars.
They should be saved by you. By me. By churches, by civic groups, by associations, by humanitarians, by their families, by their neighbors, voluntarily.
My husband and I paid about $200,000 in taxes this year. So, I am not giving any money to charity this year. I recycle more than anyone I know. We give all our old stuff to the Salvation Army. But I am not donating to charity. Nor is my husband, who used to donate to Mediciens sans Frontiers (sp?). We gave at the office, so to speak. That's what liberalism has done to our selflessness. |
