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Old 09-15-2008, 02:58 AM
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Default More Proof Conservatives Give More To Charity.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/0...n_n_93353.html


Seems Barry didn't see fit to live up to his Liberal Progressive Ideology until he sold a few books.

Then there's your boy Joe "cheapskate" Biden giving less than $400 per year.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/09...y4445194.shtml

The sad part is that in Congress their are more millionaires in the Democrat side of the isle than the Republican side, 3 to 1. Dems still give less of their own money.
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And proof that the USA is almost the most tight-arsed developed nation earth when it comes to giving aid to developing countries.

They just prefer to invade illegally and murder civilians.

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/ec...-donor-per-gdp
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Both parties are very corrupt. All politicians make more than you or I so what is the point in splitting hairs.

I say that politicians should earn what the town clerk earns.
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Both parties are very corrupt. All politicians make more than you or I so what is the point in splitting hairs.

I say that politicians should earn what the town clerk earns.
Well maybe not that little, how about they pay for their own health insurance?
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And proof that the USA is almost the most tight-arsed developed nation earth when it comes to giving aid to developing countries.

They just prefer to invade illegally and murder civilians.

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/ec...-donor-per-gdp
And the GDP of the United States is what? $13+ trillion? something like that. Now go back and compare it again to the other GDPs. Then most of the countries on that list are only where they are because of the United States. Wonder how that happened?

Fuzzy math tutor gave me this back, enjoy.
http://wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co..._GDP_(nominal)
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Well maybe not that little, how about they pay for their own health insurance?
No, healthcare should be universal. Really, if they only earned $25,000 a year, maybe they would be motivated to curb the rising cost of living.
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Democrats tend to believe that the needs of the People are a responsibility of society instead of a responsibility of the individual and that is their excuse for not giving more. Basically their belief is that the Rich should pay but not the average individual.

The Republicans tend to be selfish and while giving lip service to the personal responsibility of the individual they tend to look to "faith based" initiatives which, while helpful, are grossly inadequite in addressing the needs of the People so they don't give enough to charities. They believe that God will provide and not the individual.

The focus needs to be on the individual's responsibility in providing assistance through sectarian charities and that it is an individual responsibility and not a responsibility of the government or of God.
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Democrats tend to believe that the needs of the People are a responsibility of society instead of a responsibility of the individual and that is their excuse for not giving more. Basically their belief is that the Rich should pay but not the average individual.

The Republicans tend to be selfish and while giving lip service to the personal responsibility of the individual they tend to look to "faith based" initiatives which, while helpful, are grossly inadequite in addressing the needs of the People so they don't give enough to charities. They believe that God will provide and not the individual.

The focus needs to be on the individual's responsibility in providing assistance through sectarian charities and that it is an individual responsibility and not a responsibility of the government or of God.
When the Tax Structure is set up in such a way, charitable donations went up 400%. It did in the 80s, the Dems don't like it when people do the job they think they're supposed to do.
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Democrats tend to believe that the needs of the People are a responsibility of society instead of a responsibility of the individual and that is their excuse for not giving more. Basically their belief is that the Rich should pay but not the average individual.

The Republicans tend to be selfish and while giving lip service to the personal responsibility of the individual they tend to look to "faith based" initiatives which, while helpful, are grossly inadequite in addressing the needs of the People so they don't give enough to charities. They believe that God will provide and not the individual.

The focus needs to be on the individual's responsibility in providing assistance through sectarian charities and that it is an individual responsibility and not a responsibility of the government or of God.
19th Century Britan, same mentality. It existed in Britain in that way up until WWII when after the war the Attlee government was sworn in and Britain saw its first socialist government which corrected that situation. It seems a bit bizarre that that ideal, faith based charity, should be abroad in such a technologically advanced nation as the US in 2008.
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And proof that the USA is almost the most tight-arsed developed nation earth when it comes to giving aid to developing countries.

They just prefer to invade illegally and murder civilians.

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/ec...-donor-per-gdp
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