Obama as Robin Hood

hotair.com ^ | August 1, 2008 | Ed Morrissey

[Grandsons of Liberty]

I don’t even think such a “safety net” is needed. Churches and charity did just fine for 150+ years...and they quite aptly weeded out the dregs, hangers-on and the just plain lazy, from the truly needy...Now any dreg can get by, multiply their numbers far faster than we, who toil and struggle to raise a family, and eventually rule over us through the moonbat party.

[Sam Gamgee]

So....if annualized profits from Exxon are 44 billion, and $500 at 200 million taxpayers is 100 billion, after destroying Exxon where does he get the other 56 billion.

You know, the moment I have just had it with the GOP, Obama manages to go one further and remind why to vote McCain.

[Stand Watch Listen]

don’t even think such a “safety net” is needed. Churches and charity did just fine for 150+ years...

True...in the past...But churches/charities are no longer adequately funded. Contributions are at all time lows. Food pantries/charities/churches today are struggling daily to offer any means of 'assistance' or help.

Is the daily need greater nowadays..or society (in general) relinquished its responsibility, its accountability and now just rely on the Fed Government to 'make things right'"?

[Grandsons of Liberty]

When charities flourished, people were happy to donate since they knew their donations would be put to good use helping those worth helping to become self-sufficient again...Their taxes were low (if not non-existant) and they felt a responsibility to those less fortunate.

Now, we are forced by government to “donate” through taxation, and to an increasingly large number of the recipients who are just bums and have no intention of making it on their own - ever. Since we already “donate”, we are averse to making additional donations to charities...This explains your inadequate funding. Add on top of it government’s “service charges” and red tape that ensure probably less than half of the tax money intended to “help” meets it intended recipients.

If a friend, neighbor or family member of mine had fallen on hard times, I’d be more than happy to give them a hand, knowing full well that it could happen to me as well...I don’t feel anywhere near the same empathy when it comes to a bureaucrat dishing out funding that I’m forced to pay.