You're quoting from a **g rag? Now I understand completely.

Is that the best you can do? A scientific study shows that liberals are weenies when it comes to charity, and all you can do is bash Bush?

In 2000 the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University released the Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey, by far the largest and most extensive study of civic engagement by Americans that has ever been performed.

Comprising data from a total of 27,000 respondents in 41 communities throughout 29 different states, the Survey measured a wide range of social participation, including charitable giving … and the data show no significant difference between liberals and conservatives in charitable activity or donations.

But that won't stop gullible dittosheep like Trey Hoffman from spewing his right wingnut propaganda. That's what Christianists do.

These numbers are jacked up by Rockefeller types building libraries for the elite and Oprah pushing on inferior colleges, etc.
Nobody gets much food and shelter from them, though.

If you mean the average giving of liberals is jacked up by the likes of Oprah and Rockefeller, you are probably right. Remove the high profile rich from the liberal side and their averages are probably even lower.

But seriously, both sides have their rich components, but we are talking trends and tendencies. Conservatives TEND to be more religious and more charitable both because they distrust government and believe in giving to the poor.

This is the great problem with liberals: they believe the only way to properly help the poor is through government welfare. But that is the worst way to do it. Why? Because government does it badly, without real compassion, and doing so relieves the general population of the sense of personal responsibility to help the poor. That's why European countries are the LEAST charitable places in the world. They've ceded all of the responsibilty for caring for people to the government.

The Democrats are VERY generous. They just like to give away other people's money.

If I give directly and cut out the middle-man, aka the government - 100% of what I give goes to the needy individual and nothing is siphoned off for the leeches in Washington.
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