Conservatives Are More Generous

Religion News Service ^ | 11/17/2006 | Frank Brieaddy

[nmh]

No surprise.

Liberals have to ANNOUNCE it like Gates etc. because liberals are typically GREEDY and want to spend YOUR money. Maybe that's why LIBERALS require so much hoopla when they let the moths fly out of their wallets.

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

Conservatives Are More Generous

Of course. We are not spending all of our time and money trying to make ourselves happy (we are already happy). And we believe "love your neighbor as yourself." One of the many Christian Bible verses that make liberals recoil and spew hate.

[Brad from Tennessee]

USA TODAY: Bible Belt Residents Most Charitable:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-11-20-national-giving_x.htm

[massadvj]

Absolutely no surprise. Anyone in the endowment development game will tell you the message that most resonates with prospective donors is traditional values. Liberal arts colleges often have a two tiered strategy: one for donors, one for students. They sell the donors on their tradition and upholding morality in young people, while they sell prospective students on the college's secular, decadent college life, gay studies program, etc.

[DGray]

Not a surprise at all; as the article states, liberals believe that charity should begin and end with the government via high taxes, preferably on those who they deem to be "wealthy". Conservatives believe charity comes from the individual. Both groups act on their beliefs. I'm glad to see someone in academia who is willing to call it like it is, though!

[CheyennePress]

Yep. Study after study has shown that charitability is directly correlated most strongly with religiosity. And also with limited government social services.

One of the first responses you hear out of the mouths of liberals when you bring up the disparity in charitability is that conservatives are rich and can more easily give (really, I'm not sure how they manage to classify us as both rich elitists and nuckle-dragging hicks....). Then you mention Mississippi, which is both our nation's poorest and most generous state.

Next in line? States like Tennessee, North Dakota, Alabama, and Utah. Not exactly liberal territory....

[MadLibDisease]

Mark

[meandog]

You know a lot of waitresses and service people will testify this is true. Well-known liberals are extremely tight when it comes to gratuities. I knew one once back in the 1980s in D.C. who waited on none other than M'chussetts Sen. Ted Kennedy and a guest. She said he sent a perfectly seasoned T-bone steak back twice and complained about the fresh salad greens not being crisp enough. She also served him several high-balls (bourbon, not scotch mind you) and took a lot of alcoholic-tinged abuse about the food. His bill came to more than $70 dollars, she said, and all she got was a $3 tip--not even minimum wage that he's so proud of touting. (I wish that I had been in the kitchen when his steak came back, ooooh would I have hocked the biggest lug...never mind, it's dinner time for most of you and I don't want to spoil your appetites.

[originalbuckeye]

Pet peeve of the day.....

We sometimes give to St. Jude's. Not every year because we rotate our giving, but several times in the past few years. I ALWAYS write the checks but Marlo ALWAYS sends the begging letters to my husband. Not my husband and me, just my husband. I guess she doesn't see the checks that I ALWAYS sign.

[sauropod]

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Syracuse University professor Arthur C. Brooks is about to become the darling of the religious right in America -- and it's making him nervous.

Choke on your "virtue" Brooks!

[George W. Bush]

article: "These are not the sort of conclusions I ever thought I would reach when I started looking at charitable giving in graduate school, 10 years ago," he writes in the introduction. "I have to admit I probably would have hated what I have to say in this book."

Like Lott with the merits of concealed weapons, you gotta love it when liberal academics start out assuming some incontroverible truth (liberals good, conservatives evil) and their own research changes their own minds and they have the courage to write about it, enraging the other liberal academics and the media.

Besides Lott, I also think of Lawrence Tribe who enraged the anti-gun lobby by asserting a strong right to bear arms under the Second Amendment. Really made them mad that their top legal guy and likely nominee for the Court would support the Second so forcefully.

An academic more wedded to truth than to his own politics and ideology is always interesting.

[Mr. Buzzcut]

ping to myself

[Agrarian]

Yup -- absolutely a two-tiered approach. Parents of potential students and alumni got a nice song-and-dance from the president about how both conservative and liberal kids would be comfortable at the college one of mine attends.

What a joke. Probably half the guys at this "Protestant" college are gay, and the rest are hopeless fems. The curriculum is full of politically correct courses. And it is supposedly a more traditional school by the standard of surrounding colleges. That's life on the left coast, I guess.

Even if my kid graduates from there, they'll never get a dime of my money other than the tuition that I'm forced to pay...

[LowOiL]

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[nmh]

"An academic more wedded to truth than to his own politics and ideology is always interesting."

And it's very rare.

Shall we say, distorting truth to make them look good is the usual modus operandi?

[Pajamajan]

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[Dmitry Vukicevich]

Come on now, liberals are extremely generous they just prefer to use other people's money.

[FlyVet]

I think this is old news. Past articles have been posted about Mississippi being one of the poorest states per capita, but also one of the most generous in charitable giving. They just happen to be the ones most efficiently recovering from Katrina, without the whining. What a surprise, they rely on themselves and the Lord. Stupid hicks.

Libs want their "charity" to come from the gubmint, because it's "free stuff" in their eyes. Nobody pays for it, don't you know. They're the smart ones.

They'll never get it.

[FreedomProtector]