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Originally Posted by sperbonzo
George Carlin is funny, but actually Republicans give more to charity than liberals do... Look it up.
Maybe their feeling is more along these lines:
Meanwhile Akin and his ilk are sick bastards that need to shut up and go away.
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I like Penn and and respect his views on a lot of things and I even wont deny that social conservatives will give to charities. I am not sure of the context of that quote but I am going to assume it is in regards to something like Somalia. And I do not think that is what Carlin was addressing.
Locally (in the US and not a part of foreign policy) the government has a much greater ability to help the poor than all of the charitable organizations and churches combined. I am a huge liberal for sure but I think the way they go about it could be improved greatly... providing assistance while training people or educating them for better jobs for those that can work would be great. But once those people have the education or training who is going to hire them? No one right now thats for sure and we certainly cant give them government jobs.... the social conservatives may give to charities, feel all warm and fuzzy for helping their fellow man.... but the policies they support do much more harm to the poor than any charity they could ever give
