01-31-2006, 10:57 PM
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I'm sure your experience is different than mine
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Originally Posted by JavaBlack";p="
2) The conservatives prefer charity for the reason I mentioned above but generally don't want to give anything into it because they have an infinite number of rationalizations for how the poor deserve to be poor because they're lazy.
The lesson: Ideologies suck and as long as we have these two dumb views, the problem is never going to get better. The cons don't believe in helping people get out of poverty other than in fixing the macrostructure of the economy (and making themselves rich in the process) and libs trust too much in bureaucracy.
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Perhaps my experience is more anecdotal, but people that I know that are conservative tend to be more giving and not only advocate charity, but participate with donations as well as volunteerism. There was a study a few months ago that showed more red state participation in charitable giving than blue state. Blue/liberal states were already heavily taxed to the point of saying "let the welfare/social system take care of the poor. I gave at the office."
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