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Re: What is a liberal?


I think you need to read that Adam Smith quote again and think about what it really means. We seem to have a tendency to assume that everyone who needs help in this country is a slacker who is just looking for a handout. There are a lot of people who have fallen on hard times through no fault of their own who need help, and we will be seeing a lot more of them in the months and years to come, as the true nature of this financial crisis is revealed. We are going to have a lot of people out of work who need unemployment insurance. We need real health care reform so that people who can't afford to pay their medical bills don't become bankrupted. There is going to be a need for a government that cares about the problems that people are going to be facing.

Sometimes opportunity is not "equal" without some form of government intervention to make sure the playing field is level. Or do you think that slaves and their descendants have had the same opportunities as whites in this country? Do you think racism in this country has been abolished? Think again.

And even if you think that there are slackers taking advantage of your tax dollars, are you capable of determining which poor people are truly deserving of our help (as so-called Christians) and which are undeserving and should be left to rot? Who makes that decision?

There are sweeping generalities being made on this board. That is something we should stay away from, unless we really are a omniscient as God supposedly is. Try putting yourself in the shoes of someone who has worked hard all his life and who suddenly cannot support his family or even survive from day to day. Would you want someone else to judge whether or not you deserved to be helped? Is that the Christian way?

I would rather pay my tax dollars and support a huge amount of slackers (knowing that at least some who are genuinely needy are being helped) than to pay my tax dollars to support war or corporate greed or government cronyism, all of which we have seen under this supposedly conservative administration.

 

 
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