Posted by
D W W Robertson on Thursday, April 10, 2008 11:50:15 AM
With the publication of Arthur Brooks new book, “Who Really Cares,” we have learned that conservatives are more compassionate that liberals when it comes to giving to charity. Some of his findings include the following:
-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.
-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.
Having read these statistical facts, I began to ask myself what are other ways that conservatives show their compassion. Here are some of them.
Welfare
Liberals want to give welfare checks to people who can’t or won’t work. Conservatives know that those welfare checks only keep these people dependent on the government and enables irresponsible behavior. The compassionate thing to do is to help people by forcing them the make responsible decisions. Not only do liberals treat the American people like their children, they practice bad parenting.
Immigration
Liberals want to allow immigrants to cross the border undocumented and to vie for American jobs. Who does this hurt the most? The immigrants that came here legally and expect minimum wage. Conservatives have compassion towards the immigrants that came here legally and want to make an honest living under the high flying Star Spangled Banner.
Business
Liberals hate corporations. Conservatives know that those corporations keep America’s economy running and that supporting corporations by lowering taxes allows them to pass on the benefit to the working family man or woman in the office or on the job. It takes a liberal lie to say that the success of public companies is the epitome of selfishness. When a public company does well the share holders do well. Who holds the shares? The everyday American investing some of his earnings in stocks holds the shares and benefits. Have compassion on the working man and the American public that chooses to invest in our future.
Crime and Punishment
Liberals hate punishing criminals. It is all about rehabilitation for criminals, according to liberals. What about the victims? Especially when it comes to the death penalty, liberals go crazy. Who needs compassion, the worst kind of criminal or the victim and the victim’s family? The liberal answer is having mercy on the criminal, while the victim’s family must be denied justice. The liberals say this even when executing the guilty criminal would save more innocent lives by deterrence. By the way, liberals have no problem punishing white collar criminals, where is the compassion towards criminals there? What is the conservative response to all of this? Execute the worst murders to save innocent lives. Punishment works, profound huh?
Abortion
Abortion is the worst case of liberal compassion. Liberals supposedly have compassion on the mother of the unborn child by allowing the women to legally choose to burn the unborn fetus to death with chemicals or later in the term scramble the fetus’s brains. Abortion stops the heartbeat of an unborn human as a medical scientific fact. As a psychological fact, abortion weighs on a woman’s conscience even if she doesn’t realize until years later. Abortion hurts unborn humans and women alike. Conservative compassion prevents that harm.
Much of modern liberal psychology is devoted to helping people suppress their guilt rather than respond to it in a manner that allows the person to heal and mature. That, my friend, is not compassionate. It is destructive and deceitful.
Liberals claim to be compassionate towards minority racial groups. Although there are many different manifestations of this liberal compassion such as affirmative action in different forms, the presence of “multi-cultural” centers on American college campus, and the frequent lectures that liberals feel they must give everyday Americans about deeply imbedded racist tendencies. The most destructive force of all is simply the idea that liberals often promote that member of a racial minority have so many obstacles to overcome that they cannot do it without government help and even then it may be impossible. The message from the far left is even worse. Barak Obama’s pastor, Jeremiah Wright, who’s made headlines of late claims that Blacks are the target of government conspiracies to murder by spreading aids. This message is totally destructive to the youth and adults alike. Is it not more compassionate to take the conservative perspective and thank God that slavery, Jim Crow laws, and forced segregation are behind us. Those terrible sins of our past are looked upon with utter disgust by most Americans today. So, let’s share the compassionate message. DECENCY, HONESTY, and HARD WORK will make you successful, regardless of your race. It is the decisions you make that form your future. We live in the land of opportunity where all men and women are created equal. That is the compassionate message and that is the message that everyone needs to hear in America where we are blessed with social mobility and freedom that does not discriminate based on the color of one’s skin.
Ethenol
Ethenol is one of the least compassionate things environmentalist liberals have pushed on our great nation. The use of ethenol, fuel made from corn, has had one major effect on our nation. It drove up the cost of food. The poor suffer the most from this development and the conservatives were the ones standing up for compassion towards the poor on this issue of late.
Iraq and Pacifism
Now the Iraq war is a complex issue and maybe you don’t think compassion is the issue. It is insofar as liberals claim that pacifism is the compassionate position. So, I will speak only of those who say the following: “We should leave Iraq now, because American troops are dying.” Now I must admit there is some intuitional force to this or to the statement, “Support our troops. Bring them home.” I think both statements, however, show a lack of compassion in two different ways. The first (besides being an entirely irresponsible position) lacks compassion because it seems clear and uncontroversial that if American troops leave Iraq, the Iraq people, for whose liberty we are fighting, will suffer great harm in the short term and the long term as a civil war will break out and Al-Qaida will fight for power in the region. Many Iraqi civilians will die needlessly. Many more than if we stay. The second statement lacks compassion for many of our troops. I would not be so naïve as to say that all of our troops want to be in Iraq. Many don’t agree with the war and many just don’t want to fight in a war. However, most, I contend, do not want to see the American military surrender or fail. It completely lacks compassion to pull the rug out from underneath our American military and cause them to suffer total disappointment when the American military has worked so hard and sacrificed so much for the Iraqi people. We must honor the troops by supporting their efforts, not their premature withdrawal.
To whom are pacifists compassionate? If you see a bully beating up a victim and you must use force to not only restrain them but to stop them from continuing, the compassionate thing to do is to stand up for the weak and the vulnerable.
Assisted Suicide
Legalized assisted suicide does not show compassion for one very large group of individuals. Elderly people requiring some sort of assistance may feel like they are a burden on their family members. What once was an opportunity (in classic liberal doublespeak) is now an obligation. The elderly individual now feels that he or she must find a doctor to assist in their suicide in order to alleviate any financially burden or incredible inconvenience on their family members. This person has been dehumanized by the liberals as he or she has been told that his or her “quality of life” does not warrant living another day. The same thing goes for those with mental and physical handicaps. Where is the liberal’s decency? The conservative and the compassionate response is to affirm that we are all valuable human beings, loved by our Creator, and everyone has the ability to enjoy happiness that comes from spreading a little cheer.
I will be compassionate towards you by stopping here. But there will be more in the future.