“If I ever get real rich, I hope I’m not real mean to poor people, like I am now”– Deep Thoughts with Jack Handey
In the context of budget debates, we can always count on liberals to wage class warfare. When austerity draws its uncomfortable bead on health and human services line items, school budgets, public sector unions, and the arts, liberals form up the fight line to speak of epic meanness. They caterwaul and accuse Republicans of starving the children, or killing the old people or taking away food stamps from the poor.
Those evil, heartless rich Republicans! they just keep getting richer and the poor just keep getting poorer! Republicans Are People Too — Mean, Selfish, Greedy People! How many times have we grown tired of hearing that? The sad fact is that all too many people buy into these sham assertions.
“Republicans.” They are the straw man in public debate that liberals love to point their prune-picking, pablum-puking, American-hating, boney little fingers at, as the source of all thing miserable.
Class warfare Liberals gloss over the fact that uber-wealthy liberals vastly outnumber wealthy conservatives. Andrew Gelman, Professor of statistics and political science at Columbia University asserts that, “The average income of the 100 million or so Republicans is LOWER than that of the 150 million or so Democrats,” in Rich state, poor state, red state, blue state. American Conservative households statistically earn 6% less than Liberal American households.
According to Syracuse University Professor Arthur C. Brooks, “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). Brooks also points out in his book, “Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism,” conservatives volunteer more time and donate more blood than liberals do.
Liberals give very little charity to the very people they claim to champion and advocate for…the very people they claim to care about. But liberals have no problem whatsoever taking money from people and making a charitable contribution by proxy of a government program. The truth is most left-wingers believe the responsibility to help the poor and elderly the sole responsibility of the government and not them. “it’s the government’s job”
In March of 2008, George Will in Real Clear Politics, in speaking of the disparity in charitable giving, shares, “By using public office to give other peoples’ money to government programs, (Al Gore) was being charitable, as liberals increasingly, and conveniently, understand that word…” We must not overlook the limousine liberals and their charitable giving. Still, conservatives give more.
When the next class warfare argument segues into the public dialog arena, simply remember them for the hypocrites they are. Its one thing to be disorganized and sound like a hypocrite, but these folks live it.
H/T George Will
