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Compassionate yet conservative
 
Dave
Posted: 13 January 2010 09:15 PM   [ Ignore ]  
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There is a notion out there that conservatives are harsh and uncaring because A) they wish to strive towards success and B) they resist charitable government mandates.

But are conservatives uncaring and greedy for taking this approach? Especially in light of the fact that we are spending money we don’t have, is it greedy and uncaring for people to oppose massive new government initiatives like national government-run healthcare?

I think it’s important to realize that no matter what the good intentions are, explosive debt financing is going to wreck this country; no mandated charity is worth destroying an economy.

Attached is a graph from the CBO displaying projected deficits.

To those who say conservatives and Republicans are mean-spirited, it cannot be emphasized often enough that if the money is not there, it is not there.

Regarding notions of charity rebuffed, government is incapable of being charitable because it is not a person, it is an institution, subject to bureaucracy, corruption and ineptitude. Furthermore, charity is voluntary. Mandating charity defeats the whole purpose.

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Posted: 23 January 2010 04:14 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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Posted: 14 June 2010 01:57 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]  
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Posted: 18 June 2010 09:58 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 7 ]  
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Posted: 06 July 2010 03:14 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 9 ]  
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Posted: 09 August 2010 09:27 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 10 ]  
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The liberal pundits who embraced the candidacy of Barack Obama are also eager to issue a death certificate for free market capitalism. They’re wrong, and they remind me of what the great Willie Nelson once said: “I’m ragged but I’m right.”

To be sure, the American people have handed power over to the Democrats. But today there is a categorical difference between what Republicans stand for and the principles of individual freedom. Parties are all about getting people elected to political office; and the practice of politics too often takes the form of professional juvenile delinquency: short-sighted and self-centered.

This was certainly true of the Bush presidency. Too often the policy agenda was determined by short-sighted political considerations and an abiding fear that the public simply would not understand limited government and expanded individual freedoms. How else do we explain “compassionate conservatism,” No Child Left Behind, the Medicare drug benefit and the most dramatic growth in federal spending since LBJ’s Great Society?

John McCain has long suffered from philosophical confusions about free markets, and his presidential campaign reflected as much. Most striking was his inability to explain his own health-care proposal, or to defend his tax cuts and tax reform. Ultimately, it took a plumber from Ohio to identify the real nature of Barack Obama’s plan to “spread the wealth.”

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Posted: 16 August 2010 03:05 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 11 ]  
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Posted: 20 August 2010 12:14 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 12 ]  
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Posted: 26 August 2010 02:39 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 13 ]  
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Posted: 27 August 2010 02:46 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 14 ]  
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