NYcarbineer
Diamond Member
"...conservative style, is just an expensive delusion of grandeur."
Expensive.....
Interesting that you use that term in the pejorative.....
...revealing in that Liberals are well known to fall well behind in charitable donations.
Now, real Americans, conservatives....
"Last year Americans gave $300 billion to charity. To put this into perspective, that is almost twice what we spent on consumer electronics equipmentequipment including cell phones, iPods and DVD players. Americans gave three times as much to charity last year as we spent on gambling and ten times as much as we spent on professional sports. America is by far the most charitable country in the world.
There is no other country that comes close.
https://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=2010&month=01
There is no other country that comes close.
ex·cep·tion·al (k-spsh-nl)
adj.
1. Being an exception; uncommon.
2. Well above average; extraordinary: an exceptional memory. See Usage Note at exceptionable.
3. Deviating widely from a norm,
exceptional - definition of exceptional by The Free Dictionary
I am always amused at how frequently I am forced to teach you the English language.
Maybe you should wonder why a nation as wealthy as the US would have so much need for charity.
Republicans would take food stamps away from the working poor, I guess in order to make them more appreciative of the canned goods they might be able to get down at the local food pantry.
We do not live in a wealthy nation, we have never lived in a wealthy nation, and it is very unlikely that we will ever live in a wealthy nation. We live in a nation that is massively in debt, and getting deeper in debt every day. When you start with a faulty premise, all of the conclusions based on that premise are faulty, and that is the prime problem with modern Liberalism.
We live in a nation of relatively wealthy people. The wealth belongs to those who have it, and not to the nation or anyone else. The American people are a very generous people, and much individual wealth is given to charity to care for those who need help, here at home, and abroad.
Liberals, for some odd and ignorant reason, believe that the wealth generated by millions of individuals, working in their own self interest, somehow belongs to the collective, and they wish to use government to confiscate "their fair share" and redistribute it to those who did not generate it. That is the worst type of greed, and arises from an attitude of personal entitlement, that is as unAmerican as one can get. And, that is why liberals object to the idea of American exceptionalism.
American exceptionalism is the concept that millions of people, all operating in their own self interest, working at improving the condition of themselves and their families, generate wealth better than any form of collective or government run system. This concept is being copied around the world, and works every where that it is tried.
Well I guess then the closer we get back towards the Gilded Age the more exceptional we'll be.