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Hot Dog Day Moves to Goffstown on August 13

by Op-Ed

Goffstown, New Hampshire Announcing the return of Rep. John Burt’s Hot Dog Day. On August 13, we are bringing the event from the State House to John Burt’s house in Goffstown. Learn about the famous Hot Dog Day, help conservative Michael Yakubovich, and donate to a charity all at the same time! When: Saturday, August … Read more

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7 Things To Do With an Extra $1000

by Guest Contributor

Most people wouldn’t mind an extra $1000 in their hands right now. But before you go planning to spend it on a manicure or an elegant dinner, consider other things you might do with $1000 from a personal loan, an inheritance, or your lucky lottery ticket. There are infinite ways to spend it, these ones … Read more

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Have Faith in Their Hypocrisy

by Steve MacDonald

If it is disgusting, unethical, or even criminal for a church leader to spend money they ask for and receive voluntarily – on themselves instead of their supposed mission, how it is not exponentially worse than members of Congress (or their donors or supporters) are getting rich (or at least enriched) on the money “taken from people” who won’t be born for generations and can’t even vote to allow it or object in the first place?

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The “It’s Just a Cup of Coffee” Shill Game From Charities and NGOs and their “Magic Money Multiplier”

by Skip

There are endless sets of hands reaching out for Government money – taken from the rest of us involuntarily through our taxes but at least this guy admits it.

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Blast from the Past – Apropos Given What the Biden / Sanders “Build Back Better” Catastrophe wants to Do

by Skip

GraniteGrok now has well over 44,000 posts in its archive – and I have written well over 16,000 of them and Steve is credited with an almost as large number as well. Why do I bring this up?

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For the First Time in Years, I Simply Walked past the Salvation Army Kettle …

by Skip

Unlike Progressive-Socialists who believe that “charity” can only be carried out by Government and not by private entities (see Bernie Sanders, below), Conservatives believe that each ONE of us is PERSONALLY responsible for helping others out – not as a Collective.

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Microsoft CEO Nadella doesn’t care about “fundamental Rights” – he’s looking to his bottom line.

by Skip

Just like we saw his company’s founder (Bill Gates) with Common Core and ALL that resulting data to run through his servers and monetize it. Ditto here (reformatted, emphasis mine): New York (CNN Business) Among the many types of inequality in the United States laid bare by the coronavirus pandemic is the digital divide between … Read more

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CoronaComedy – Cabin Fever Leads to Humor When You’re Trapped Inside

by Steve MacDonald

As the nation and the world go nuts over the flu and we appear on the verge of any number of restrictions (canceled events, closed schools, and so on) in the US, we should look to the east. A new pandemic has also started there. Cabin Fever. And in response is strange and hilarious.

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Step Up Parents: A TRUE Case of Christian Charity from the Heart

by Skip

I have railed for years that most “charities” aren’t anymore – they no longer canvas their friends or the public for funds in which to turn around and help others in need but Step Up Parents is not one of those.

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David Koch has Passed Away – Keep Your Eyes Open for Liberal’s Cheering

by Steve MacDonald

David Koch, who has donated over a billion dollars to charity has died at the age of 79.

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Jess Edwards – Help us Honor Korean War Veterans

by Skip

NH State Rep Jess Edwards (R-Rockingham District 4) did something a bit different. He is looking for some help with a charity softball game coming up) on October 6 where they are honoring our Korean War veterans. Here’s Jess throwing out his first pitch! (If you know of someone, let Jess know!)  

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Tales from the BudComm – Coerced charity is not charity

by Skip

“We can legally do it – but is a simple majority vote to give your property tax monies to a charity that you otherwise would not actually moral?” Every year since I’ve been politically active and paying attention, “outside agencies” keep coming to my hamlet to get the townfolk to give them money.  No, not … Read more

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Hillary Should Have Named Her Daughter Charity

by Steve MacDonald

If you had not heard, the Clintons released their tax returns. The first, most remarkable thing about them is their charitable giving. Ninety-six percent of all donations went to…the Clintons.

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“It’s that when you give too many people help, they start to atrophy…. “

by Skip

Atrophy – a weakening.   Either of muscle or of will.

OK, I admit it – I set the timer on the bedroom TV and put on Fox News most nites.  Thus, I heard new (relatively, now) contributor to The Factor, Adam Carolla, when he first said this.  Being what I thought was a Hollywood Liv, my jaw would have dropped to the floor had I not already been horizontal.  While I do know that there are some Conservatives out there in the land of TV / Movie La-la’s, I did not expect such a strong statement against what Liberals believe to be the ultimate in Compassion – Govt handouts:

Here’s really what I object to: It’s not that certain people don’t need help from us, and the government. It’s that when you give too many people help, they start to atrophy….

My mother got food stamps, and we used food stamps, and she waited for her food stamps to come twice a month instead of go out and look for a job….

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Mitt Romney and The 57.9%

by Steve MacDonald

Democrats want to tax you so that they can then engage in state managed, centrally planned, charity.   Conservatives, Libertarians, and some Republicans object to this for more reasons than I can enumerate here but here is one example worth considering…

As the coercive power of the state will alone decide who is to have what, the only power worth having will be a share in the exercise of this directing power. There will be no economic or social questions that would not be political questions in the sense that their solution will depend exclusively on who wields the coercive power, on whose are the views that will prevail on all occasions.

-F. A. Hayek

Democrats want the government to decide.  And once they start, there is little that will not eventually fall under the gaze and control of the state.   And so, they feel very comfortable engaging in class warfare rhetoric to correct this problem, because taxes–to them–are the benchmark of other peoples charity (except their own, of course).   And they “do not approve,”  can not approve, of people engaging in charity the state does not control becasue most Americans give based on a set of values that Democrats do not share.

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Notable Quote: Adam Smith

by Steve MacDonald

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their own interest.  We address ourselves, not to their humanity, but to their self love, and never talk to them of our own necessities, but of their advantages.  Nobody but a beggar chooses to … Read more

Blogline of the Day – on Charity

by Skip

Steve has the info on Romney’s tax returns – consistently outgiving, percentage-wise those that have been yammering for his returns to be made public.  From Instapundit, reflecting on the ReProgressive definition of Charitable giving: “If you really care, you don’t give money yourself. You get the government to force other people to give. That’s what … Read more

Data Point – Blue state or Red State – who is more charitable?

by Skip

This is exactly what I thought it would be – the Redder, the more charitable.  Mix in the religious fervor in a state, and this chart was pretty much what I thought it should be.  For instance, New Hampshire voted for Obama in the last election – and was all Blue (Democrat, Left) in 2008.  … Read more

How About A Little Left Wing Charity?

by Steve MacDonald

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?

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GrokTV Event: Ron Paul – Q11, Q12 & Q13: Policy on Israel, have to use a charity hospital, dealing with both parties in Congress

by Skip

And the “Press Gaggle” ( aka “press availability” or it can be called “the time when reporters and MSM Press can ask silly questions to show their Editors they are actually doing something to earn their expense accounts / salaries”) – added after the jump!

LAST OF THE QUESTIONS!

Question 11: What is your policy on Israel?

Question 12: Will my sick child have to stand in line at a charity hospital under your administration?

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