Well, those things aside, the you have to admit that the pubbies have been working to be more "compassionate" than "conservative" since we've held both the legislative and executive branches... I think that they've done it to take away a lot of the dems "issues." Of course, the media doesn't give them any "credit."
But lets face it... Congress has been spending money on non-defense programs in a way that gives "drunken sailors" a bad name. More like a teenager who's got daddy's platinum card at the Moonlight Bunny Ranch!
Mark
Yes, I suppose you are probably right.
When will the big-government "Republicans" learn that taking some people's money from them and giving it to others is not compassion!!
It's wealth redistribution.
It's soft socialism.
It's dishonest.
It's wrong.
...and it also does more long-term damage to those you claim to be "compassionate" toward!
Compassion is an individual virtue, not a collective one. When the people of a nation are mostly individually compassionate, then that nation is compassionate. Compassion can't be legislated nor taxed into existence.
When wealth is taken, by force if necessary, as taxes are, then giving that wealth to others is not compassion. It's not altruism. It's plain, old-fashioned, stealing. It is government mandated, institutionalized theft.
To make some the beneficiaries of that theft, rather than of the rewards of their own honest work, only diminishes them. It serves to destroy their initiative and aspirations. It ruins generations of their children.
Nobody should ever equate the welfare state with the word "compassion". It's a profoundly tragic lie. It must be stopped.