How About A Little Left Wing Charity? - Granite Grok

How About A Little Left Wing Charity?

In the virtual backrooms of GraniteGrok, we debate each other on the issues, candidates, and legislation of the day.  And we often disagree on the particulars or specifics, discussing at length their relationship to first principles that we in fact share.  In the midst of recent back and forth over HB 1658, which tries to disincentivize baby-makers from making any new ones while the state and taxpayers are paying the tab for the existing ones, something interesting occurred to me.

How  likely is it that the Christian Socialists and the lefts welfare-watercarriers will spend more trying to stop HB 1658 than it would cost them to just pick up the difference in the form of contributions to these same mothers as private charities?

And while you consider that, consider this.  Why the hypocrisy?  Democrats and their fellow travelers are all about legislating away behavior that costs the taxpayers money.   Smoking, the food you eat, the energy you burn that is bad for you,the size of your house, your car, the fact that you even have a car, even regulating the very healthcare we are to be provided, all focused on making behavior illegal for their perception of “our own good,” and under the assumption that failing to act will cost taxpayers more.

But this does not apply to women or sex.  Abortion, contraception, and  welfare babies, all products of personal behaviors which taxpayers–in the minds of the left and their Christian socialists–must pay for;  all of which have long term consequences to the public wallet and the physical and mental well being of women,  but which the state has no right to infringe upon.

But we do.  And not long ago, private charities provided support to both mothers and their children, in these circumstances.  And if the left is as filled with care and empathy as they claim, just a fraction of the out of state special interest money that pours into their hands to buy votes would more than adequately care for these women and their children if they simply spent it on something other than agitating the state to do what they could do more efficiently with less money.

If they really cared at all, they would admit that the state is a cold hard and incompatible father figure, incapable of recognizing that most unmarried women on welfare who have more children, are just looking for the kind of unconditional love they cannot seem to find from the men they choose, and that they believe only young children provide.  Children who grow up in poverty, only to watch their mothers have more babies, hoping the next one will stay little  just a bit longer.

A state hand out wont fix that.

 

 

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