8.Jul.2010 at 8 | xn
Liberalism Defined In One Sentence
One sentence clearly spells out where liberalism – including the “Religious Left” – begins to stray off course.
See if you can find it for yourself in this article:
1.3 million unemployed won’t get benefits restored
How’d you do? Here’s the One Sentence (OK, it’s two sentences):
“I challenge you to look people in the eye and tell them that you voted no,” said Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga. “Tell them as they swallow their pride that you don’t care, that you don’t have a heart, that you don’t have any feeling.”
So there you have it. If you don’t support a government solution, if you don’t support spending money that isn’t there, if you don’t support paying people for almost two years to NOT work, if you believe that people are capable, creative, and intelligent enough to do what they have to do to take care of their families, if you believe that local communities are better qualified than DC to diagnose and solve problems, then you don’t have a heart.
Never mind the track record of government “aid”. Never mind the moral hazard. Never mind the time-tested principle of subsidiarity. Never mind the perverse disincentives to employment. Never mind the utter destruction of the black family brought on by the “Great Society”. Never mind the condescension and arrogance required to believe that people can’t care for themselves. Never mind the deficit, and the disproportionate effect it has on the poor.
What matters most is having a heart, and only those who support creating and sustaining dependency have one.
And therein lies the problem of governing by feeling.
