Compassionate conservatism rules!
Some arrogant guy (happens to be conservative in this case) concludes that the best way to tackle many of the problems facing society is by leaving them up to religious people to handle. Yeah, because religious charity ended the Great Depression. The New Deal had nothing to do with it.Here's the deal: charitable giving is great and welcome, but it's too selective and inadequate to handle every socioeconomic problem that faces a nation. If charity were the answer then how did poverty ever come to be? Poverty existed long before welfare did, so why didn't charitable giving stamp out poverty long ago? Personal giving is great and honorable but doesn't go far enough to solve every problem facing society. God forbid, but sometimes it takes a national perspective (a federal government) to address non-local issues. Charity alone didn't rebuild London after WWII, didn't fix the Japanese banking system in the 1990s, didn't build the interstate highway system and didn't help America out of the Great Depression. Charity isn't always enough.Read more here...
- December 29, 2006
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