A conservative's view of compassion

12/25/02 | Listenhillary

[Lexington Green]

Compassionate people don't persecute sick and dying people for smoking medical pot.... Nazis do.

[listenhillary]

Your turn to read my two cents.

[listenhillary]

I would never persecute sick and dying people for smoking medical pot.

Warped definition of this conservative at least. Sorry

[listenhillary]

NAZI - you mean the National Socialist party?

[Willie Green]

Government should be studied intensively. How it impacts our lives, how much it costs, who pays the taxes and where the money goes...
Economics should be taught as early as possible in my opinion. Starting with budgeting, managing money, importance of savings, how to balance a checkbook, credit, pitfalls of credit...

Bush Seeks Increase in National Debt Limit

"I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom. And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude."

--Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, July 12, 1816

"And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."

-- Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, May 28, 1816

"We are infinitely better off without treaties of commerce with any nation."

--Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1815.

[pabianice]

If King were alive he'd be suing the NAACP for fraud and racism.

[listenhillary]

If King were alive he'd be suing the NAACP for fraud and racism.

Yes, he would. Note quite what he envisioned his followers would be.

[JohnHuang2]

Will do! =^) Merry Christmas to ya!

[listenhillary]

Some might propose that I am bashing Republicans. I hope they look at it more as my suggestion for a reasonable course of action.

I'm not fond of everything that Bush has done, but I realize he has to work with what he has and to continue to change course, he must get reelected.

Merry Christmas to you. I still enjoy reading your posts.

[JohnHuang2]

I still enjoy reading your posts.

Why, thank you very much =^)

[cold_vicious_logic]

Probably best that he died when he did.

At least he doesn't have to look at what his so-called freinds have done to his movement and his good name.

Also, having never had the opportunity to be seduced by the big bucks his successors have acquired, and never having been corrupted by it as they have, he'll always be a hero. The light he lit once will continue to shine.

[boris]

Liberals are insecure about their own morality and compassion. In fact, deep down at their core they disbelieve that they possess these virtues.

This insecurity causes them to commit ever-more-outrageous acts of "conspicuous compassion", in order to demonstrate to others -- and secretly to themselves-- their moral superiority.

But the black hole within the souls of liberals can never be sated. It will eat the world--consume the universe--if not thwarted.

All of this would be sadly amusing were it not for the fact that the left discovered they could force others to pay for their displays of "compassion". Thus was born Forced Compassion (tm). Forced compassion is NOT compassion. It is easy to be "compassionate" when someone else is paying the tab.

Let Teddy Kennedy and Jane Fonda bankrupt themselves, take up the lifestyle of Mother Teresa, and give all they have to the poor. Then they will have the moral stature to lecture the rest of us on the inadequacy of our compassion and charity. Otherwise, every word that drips from their smarmy mouths will be met with the whisper, "Hypocrite" in every ear.

[boris]

"At least he doesn't have to look at what his so-called freinds have done to his movement and his good name."

Good name?

Like "Communist sympathizer", "plagiarist", that sort of thing?

--Boris

[listenhillary]

I don't pretend to be an expert on MLK. He may have changed course to a much more radical path later in his short life. Me being a 40 y/o white guy it may be tough to imagine walking in his shoes. But I can imagine the frustration with his own people trying to get them to see his vision as to how things could be. I can imagine his frustration with the whites that sought to exploit his leadership and political power that he had at his fingertips.

I have read and reread his I have a dream speech and see nothing that a conservative would not admire in his words or vision.

I know that some whites have been horribly racist in the past. I know that some whites are still racist today. I know that many blacks are racist today.

I try very hard to not paint entire classes of people based on what I read, what I hear and what I see.

Just imagine if the Democrats lost the use of their race card. The only way we can cancel that race card is if we have something to offer minorities. Not handouts, but Republicans that can stand up and tell it like it is. "Give a man a fish, he eats for a day, Teach a man to fish and he eats for life" We want to teach minorities how to fish. That is true compassion and not enough Republicans have the balls to stand up and say it to minorities.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Here is my profit, here is the 5% of the profit.

Since determining "profit" is a very time consuming, expenxsive, and somewhat subjective number, here is a better idea. Let's get rid of the income tax all together and just have a sales tax.

[backhoe]

I liked what you had to say- it's "close enough" to what I believe myself.

[listenhillary]

Thank you. Bill and Hillary really set me off the other day with their spewing vile.

[listenhillary]

Since determining "profit" is a very time consuming, expenxsive, and somewhat subjective number, here is a better idea. Let's get rid of the income tax all together and just have a sales tax.

I'd like it except the fact that I am still acting as an unpaid tax collector. I don't see any real solution to remedy it.

[Blood of Tyrants]

The state of Tennessee allows businesses to keep a portion of the taxes collected to pay for processing. That is, up until recently.