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To: marshmallow

A critical missing ingredient with leftist formulations is individual free-will. All their systems are top-down, not bottoms-up.

I try to tell my liberal friends that one can not be charitable at the ballot box. One can’t spend other people’s money and take credit for “caring.” When you spend our own time or money (and ONLY your own time or money) to help people, that is caring.

Lots of liberals wont take that vital step. They think that “society” is supposed to help the poor. But “society” is just another word for “other people.” And, of course, the supposed help is coerced.


15 posted on 01/26/2016 7:18:58 AM PST by ChessExpert (The unemployment rate was 4.5% when Democrats took control of Congresus in 2006.)
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To: ChessExpert

There is no such thing as “free will”.

One is either a slave of sin

or

a slave of God.

No middle ground.


18 posted on 01/26/2016 11:27:12 AM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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