Posted on 05/13/2011 9:48:37 AM PDT by Absolutely Nobama
Ping!
So is it tax deductible?
Dunno. As stupid as our “government”, probably.
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Whoops! Friday the 13th is striking hard!
Let’s try that again:
Dunno. As stupid as our “government” is, I wouldn’t doubt it.
Yep. Glad this week is about over.
You know it.
There are many successful private charitable food banks around the country. These organizations fill the needs government welfare doesn’t meet.
That’s right, the government programs have not wiped out hunger, it is private charity that does so.
Of course, expecting a lib to understand this is similar to expecting a lib to actually give something to charity rather than use the government to subsidize their compassion.
Government programs CREATE poverty. Visit any Section 8 housing project for further details.
Ben Franklin was right when he said the best way to end poverty was to not make people comfortable in it.
“I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”
Why don’t our elected “leaders” see it that way ?
I know the answer, but asking it every so often makes me feel good...
Quite simply, their concern is not the country but rather their own reelection and power. It’s all about protecting their positions not the country.
The fastest way to shut up a liberal on a rant about the “poor” is to educate them as what Jesus would really want them to do.
My favorite example is that of adopting a strugling single mom and her family. True Christianity will take that woman to the grocery the week she had a huge repair bill and buy her a week’s worth of groceries. It’s replacing the battery in her car, or even the tires if needed. It’s taking her child to the doctor and paying the bill and buying the script so she can stay at work. Discernment tells you when to step in and help with something.
It always shuts them up.
They do not want to use their own money, heck, they don’t even want to talk to a needy single mom. They don’t want to hear the words “personal sacrifice” and “personal involvement” but that is exactly what Jesus intended.
As the Batman villain Egghead would say:
“EGGS-ACTLY!”
At this point, we shouldn’t evne call them liberals anymore. Perhaps socialists, fascists, or....PROGRESSIVEVIKS!
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*GASP* What about the wall of seperation between church and state!! (Chuckle)
I’m no expert, but if you’ll note, the further America has moved away from God, the faster she has descended into the Abyss. SE Cupp, an avowed atheist, noted this in her book “Losing our Religion”.
The Judeo-Christian values that founded this country are the key to its revival(and survival). Atheist societies fail and fail miserably. See Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, the USSR, and the DPRK for further details.
For those who think that I’m advocating theocracy, they have another thing coming. They don’t work, either. See Iran and what’s left of Trashcanistan for further details.
Oh but the feeding the poor part of the government intrusion is fine so long as it gets them into heaven without having to go to church on Sunday!
I personally think liberals believe God will forgive any and all sexual sins so long as they vote for Socialists to feed the poor.
Seriously.
I believe they are firmly in the “tyrannical” camp.
I have a “gift” for the obama government. Never one to sneer at really great ideas, I imported it from the liberal bastion of NYC. (New York Collective.)
It probably does not have a monetary value, but the euphoric result from using it is priceless and it doesn’t require batteries.
Because I am so magnanimus, I give them freely and often to the entire government on a very regular basis because there is no other entity so deserving.
I believe they call it a “Bronx cheer.” (It might also be known as something else.)
They are used most often in conjunction with hand gestures for routine finger excercises.
A great book for you: “Liberal Fascism” by Jonah Goldberg.
If you haven’t read it, please do. If you have, I’d like to hear any comments you have about it.
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On a roll, MM, definitely on a roll.....
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