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April 8, 2008
The Difference between Giving and Taking
Posted by Dave Blount at April 8, 2008 8:38 AM
Liberals are fond of sanctimoniously casting themselves as selflessly concerned about the plight of the less fortunate. Like everything from the Left that doesn't directly relate to a boot stamping on a human face, the pose is fake. George Will passes along a few facts from Arthur Brooks' book Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism:
Although liberal families' incomes average 6 percent higher than those of conservative families, conservative-headed households give, on average, 30 percent more to charity than the average liberal-headed household ($1,600 per year vs. $1,227).
Conservatives also donate more time and give more blood.
Residents of the states that voted for John Kerry in 2004 gave smaller percentages of their incomes to charity than did residents of states that voted for George Bush.
Bush carried 24 of the 25 states where charitable giving was above average.
In the 10 reddest states, in which Bush got more than 60 percent majorities, the average percentage of personal income donated to charity was 3.5. Residents of the bluest states, which gave Bush less than 40 percent, donated just 1.9 percent.
People who reject the idea that "government has a responsibility to reduce income inequality" give an average of four times more than people who accept that proposition.
Only with an election coming up are liberal candidates Barack O'Bigot and Shrillary Rotten ostentatiously ramping up their charitable giving. From 1998 through 2006, limousine leftist Obama gave $150,000 to charity, much of it to his mentor Jeremiah Wright's repugnant Church of Anti-American Race Hate. With everyone looking, he shelled out $240,000 last year — not so much giving, as buying public relations. Likewise, the Clintons started giving big a year ago — mainly to their own foundation, which isn't passing along the money. But they'll eagerly give $billions, once they get their hands on the federal purse.
The moral difference between giving your own money and giving someone else's money is as vast as the difference between right and wrong.
On a tip from Byron.
