[quote name='UncleBob']Link Dump:
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=480067
MSI: See, that's the typical folly I see all the time. Simply because I don't want to see my tax dollars being wasted on meth heads, it doesn't mean I want to leave, say, the elderly out. Since you know absolutely nothing about my private life, you don't know what kind of charitable work I do or don't do and you don't know what kind of private donations I make or don't make. You *assume* that because I think individuals and businesses should have a right to choose where and how they spend their money that I'm a cold, heartless bastard that would kick an old lady off my front porch in the wintertime, then go back to my warm couch and eat my stuffed turkey. I assure you, I'm not. And I don't believe the majority of Americans would be either.[/QUOTE]
*rolls his eyes*
It doesnt matter if you would turn around and give money to charity do you honestly think most people would? Charity is the cry of conservatism yet at the same time they cry that people are too stupid to buy health care and buy ring tones. So lets get this straight, people are selfish and stupid....yet will turn around and give to charity? RIIIIIGHT
Even T Boone one of the richest most conservative guys around has come out and said that charity doesn't work anymore nor does leaving it to corporations because America isnt the same country it was before. Conservative hero Ronald Reagan made damn sure of that. We are now a country all about wealth. Making certain that everyone has a job and everyone is feed/taken care of is not even secondary let alone peoples first priority.
I think a good example of this is again my fiancees family. They are all big Christians and all push the same beliefs as you, keep government out of our business and leave things up to charity. Yet we are pariahs come Christmas time simply because we say don't buy us gifts and we arnt buying you gifts, instead anything you would spend on us give to charity.
So again I say you are burying your head in the sand. You are holding on to ideals that belong and would have worked great in the 20s and 30s but are dead/defunct in modern society.