Thanks for your welcome. And if my intent was to generate hits for my blog, my posts would be excerpted. And while I am a “Newbie/blogger,” my writings have been posted on FR for more than a decade, as my old friend Jim Robinson can attest.
Anyway, if you actually read my post, you would have seen that I laid blame for the unemployment crisis squarely at the feet of Obama and the Democrats, who passed a gargantuan economic stimulus that failed to deliver on its promises.
And, no, I don’t expect the government to support the jobless-by-choice. But, as a compassionate conservative, I don’t have a problem helping the temporarily needy.
“as a compassionate conservative, I don’t have a problem helping the temporarily needy.”
Exactly. And such a non-sequitur.
No Republican is against individuals helping others. In fact, Republicans give far more to the needy (of all kinds) than Democrats. To suggest otherwise is projection, a psychological disorder.
The premise of the lead post was of a “have you stopped beating your wife?” nature. The title is loaded with all kinds of baggage, equating “help” with “supports compulsory stealing from Peter to pay Paul”.
Fact is, legislation has so screwed up the act of assisting others that “will you help” is best met with “yes, and to do so we must first we must dismantle the welfare system and supporting oppressive regulation”. Compassionate Conservativism cannot thrive until we have dismantled the destructive laws devaluing, unto prohibiting, work via minimum wage, prolonged unemployment payments, and regulations making even mundane employment terribly expensive to create, and making living less than luxuriously nigh unto criminal.
Don’t equate “compassionate conservatism” with “supports the Leftist welfare state”.