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Originally Posted by host
I heard Arthur C. Brookes interviewed on the Dennis Praeger radio show, last night. (On my local Salem Network affiliate....) He represented himself as an econoimist and a former republican, now a registered independent because of his negative impression of "both parties". He said that he was a Roman Catholic. He seemed to me to be trying to portray himself as "neutral". politically and religiously. He said that he began his research believing that liberals were more generous in their charitable giving, but that his research indicated that liberals in the US, as in Europe, prefer higher taxes and government solutions, instead of private donations of time and money which conservatives favor, and do....to a higher degree, on average, according to Arthur Brookes, than liberals do......
I'm skeptical, because I do not believe that Brookes is an impartial researcher and data analyst/interpreter, and I do not believe that he did his research as an independent, personal project, and that his results just happened to be favorable news for conservatives to embrace and distribute.
Do the results of Brookes' research, make sense to you? Is it just a coincidence, as he claims, that what he has found, portrays conservatives as more compassionate?
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Limbaugh has been hammering that onto his listeners for 15 years. It is one of the ways he was able to grab people's attention and hold it.
It's bullshit, and it tries to get people to believe that the GOP neo-cons are more caring.
What they refuse to say is that they do it for tax write offs and set up their own "charities" run by family that get paid exorbitant amounts and that if they really wanted to help people and the country they would create better paying jobs and and invest in the nation, communities and people by creating those jobs.
It's like a little kid who picks flowers from the neighbors yard to give to his mom.... he sits there telling everyone what a great little kid he is, hoping noone notices that he stole the flowers and destroyed the neighbors flower garden in the process.
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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"
Last edited by pan6467; 07-14-2007 at 10:29 AM..
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