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To: kellynla
Obama's Minuscule Charity Contributions

No surpise there.
Liberals/Socialists see government as the main instrument of
"charity" to "the masses".
Or corrupt levels of largess for themselves!

Even NPR had a segment maybe 10-15 years ago in which they talked
with telephone soliciters at some call-centers for charities.

The common theme was:
1. "Southerners" were generally the most generous donors
to charities. Even from lower socioeconomic zip-code areas.
2. Folks in "The Northeast" were money-grubbing skinflints and
were MUCH less likely to give.'
(than those bitter people clinging to their guns and religion,
and Obama would put it!)
3 posted on 10/25/2008 8:27:21 AM PDT by VOA
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To: VOA

You beat me to it, and said it better than I could have. The liberals don’t donate as much to charity because they expect government to do all the charitable type of work. They want a government program set up to cure every conceivable ill of society.

It would be interesting to go through the list of gov’t agencies and see exactly what they have contributed.

Is the state of public education better since we have had a Department of Education?

Is our energy situation better since we have had a Department of Energy?

Is the state of slum housing better since we have had a Department of Housing and Urban Development?

I’m not saying that gov’t programs never achieve any goals, just that there are often disappointing results from the tax dollars and efforts expended.


7 posted on 10/25/2008 8:32:59 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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