<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5g3LSOt0Cz8&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5g3LSOt0Cz8&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> hmm... food for thought.
Republicans is a person who thinks govenment only gets in the way of business unless their business is with the government.
"The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it." P. J. O'Rourke
... not what a Republican used to be. The party of reservation and maturity has turned into a party of criticism and inaction. A republican is lost in the sea of majority of born again Christians who do not necessarily hold the true tenants of a republican ideology. A republican is no longer republican. The irony is that the republican party has reached the wonderful catch 22 of politics: make a radical change in order to accommodate the changes in society or let the democrats do whatever they please. You see, both options go against a conservative state of mind: to change radically is against conservationism, but to watch their party get trampled does not necessarily benefit the country.
That is an interesting point. Factually private charity does not hold a candle compared to the income shifted from the lower class to the upper class during the reign of Reagan-Buishes. When you combine that with the decline in social services and welfare for the lower classes the private charity becomes even less of an issue. This is the reason why countries with undeveloped welfare states, but lots of church going and allegedly a lot of private charitable donations do so poorly on total aid to the lower income folks. The needy folks who receive the help don't really care if the help is from a private charity or the government. On a personal level it does make the charity giver feel good and to the limited extent to which it occcurs can help some of the poor and lower middle class. So I guess you can say the private charitable donations are better than nothing.
I don't agree with the original post; my dad's a republican and he's a great guy. This however is pretty sharp in my opinion:
