Originally posted by: Craig234
No, it's not.. The Republic lie and myth is about that. Liberals understand that government and charity both have a place, not that there should be no private charity.
overnment's role is to identify where it can best meet a need, and where charity can best meet a need.
Private charity lacks the scale and some other benefits of a government program. It's good for some things and not so much for others.
Only an anti-government ideologue would attack government adding its programs to help people in addition to thecharities, much less attack the so dishnestly as to say that the government wants to replace all private charity. You have on the one side people who want to do more to help those in need, and on the other hand the crazy, dangerous ideologues who would happily leave the needs unmet just to get government cut.
If you love charity so much, you shouldn't need the government to do it for you.
Yes, you should. Private charity is great, and it *cannot begin to meet the needs of society*. We had private charity before social security - there was 90% elder poverty.
There was a lack of medical care, even with private charity, which Medicare was created to meet, which it does well. And so on. Charity and government are complementary.
Yet there is overwhelming evidence that fiscal liberals rarely, and to very little extent, participate in private charity. I can give you entire books on the subject if you want.
If liberals gave at the same rate as the right, it wouldn't chage a thing about the inadequacy of the scale of charity to meet society's needs - turning this into nothing but an ad hominem attack not having any relevance, rather than any relevant argument that the issue would be addressed if liberals donated more.
Face it, the problem isn't liberals donating less to charity, it's Republicans having an ideological opposition to government programs that work.
Yes, there's a cult-like set of views, encouraged by a big propaganda machine, and you are exhibiting the problem.
The thing is, the fact that the liberals can run such good governmet is not known by so many people - most Amerrcans never saw governmen from LBJ and before.
The right-wing myths are widely spread instead, poisining our society.