No One's Stopping You
We've all heard it time and again, Liberals whinnying and mewling around about the plight of the poor, the need for someone to love the millions of fatherless, drug addicted, murderous children the Democrats have bred over the last 35 years; Liberals shaking their fists and roaring over the lack of compassion for the homeless, pontificating about the responsibilities incumbent upon a guilty society to close the gap between the evil rich and the noble poor; Liberals spouting off about the recklessness of a tax cut when there are so many good leftist causes on which to spend the money. And under all their self-righteous rage is the continuous, punitive notion that government must be the agent of this social engineering because the problems (caused by the Liberals themselves) are society-wide, a burden for us all to bear. Because we're all guilty by extension, we must all be coerced by law into forking over our money to solve the problems (at least as they're defined by the Democrats).
Note, however, that the Liberals do nothing on their own to help the people who they want the rest of us to rescue. When's the last time you saw a feminist, any feminist, take in and comfort even one homeless person? When's the last time you saw Ted Kennedy give even one dollar to a bum on the street? He's happy to give the bum your money though, for sure. When's the last time Rosa DeLauro went downtown and stopped a gang from killing a little old lady? When's the last time Luis Gutierrez volunteered his time to counsel battered women, or washed the Spanish graffiti off a church wall? The answer to all these questions is "NEVER!" These people don't do anything except demand guilt and money from the rest of us. There isn't a' one of them who realizes that guilt and money aren't the solution, not a' one who can see that they, themselves, can actually solve the problems that their failed "compassionate" giveaway programs have created.
If every person who voted for Slick Willie, the Weasel-King, took just one fatherless child into their family, there would be no more illegitimate children of Liberalism running wild on the public streets. If these same supporters of Perjury-Boy sponsored just one homeless person each, there would be no more homeless people. They could solve their self-created problems with one generation's practice of true, selfless activism. But they won't. That's not what they're about; they've never been interested in getting their own hands dirty.
Personally, I bristle when someone tries to blame me for today's social ills. I'm no slave owner, my family (such as it is) came here after World War One. In fact, I live in a state where slavery has always been illegal. Why should I have to pay for the eternal care and feeding of those "victims of institutional racism" when I'm not part of that institution? I've never raped or beaten or oppressed a woman, so why should I pay for their weepy upkeep when they get knocked around by some brute? I've never scalped an Indian or roasted a Jew, I've never lynched a black, yet the leftists want money from me to set up Liberal indoctrination programs in our schools to train my kids not to follow in my fictional, murderous footsteps. "Daddy, why are you a racist?"
It's about time we stood up to these insulting, guilt-mongering pickpockets. There is no problem in today's modern America that can't be traced directly to both the Liberal, Leftist victimological paradigm of re-written history, and more importantly, the failure of Liberals to actually work, hands-on, to finally fix their own disasters. But Liberals don't really work for their ideals. All they do is bitch, blame Republicans for every perfidy in history, and reap the moral rewards of feeling like good Samaritans while throwing other people's money around like medieval princes. It's actually better for them that the problems get worse. Liberals can
then "fight the good fight" louder and longer.
The next time some liberal complains about the plight of the poor, and how we need more government programs to help, tell him "No one's stopping you from giving your own money to the poor. Go ahead, put your money where you pretend your heart is. Just keep your hand out of my pockets, I've never made anyone poor." The next time a liberal complains about the plight of the homeless, tell him "No one's stopping you from taking a homeless person into your own house." When they bitch about the number of people who don't have health insurance, say "Look, if every Democrat added just one of those people onto their own policy, the problem would be gone. Just keep your hand out of my pocket, don't penalize my hard work. I didn't raise medical rates, Democratic medical subsidies did that."
This tactic works quite well in most social circumstances. "So you want more money from me, eh? When's the last time you did anything personally to fix things? It's not my fault, you and your party created this mess, why do you want to bill me? This country doesn't need new programs, it needs the complainers, like you, to clean up their own mess. I insist you take care of it." While there are a
scant few Liberals who actually do help out at the street-church soup kitchens, or proudly give bags of food and clothes to poor mothers, most Leftists have no retort other than the same old wheezing Third Way Socialist Party Line: "We have a responsibility to carry each other through life, and we band together into a government to accomplish the things that we can't do on our own." Well, I'm sorry Comrade Commissar, but that's exactly the kind of hands-off
thinking which created the problem in the first place. And it's your thinking. And it's wrong! You get more of what you subsidize, not less. Now cut it out and fix the troubles you've made."
My favorite is: "So you don't want a tax cut, huh? Well, no one's stopping you from sending your extra money back to the government. Better yet, give it directly to those poor victims of America's evilness, and skip the middle man." Would anyone like to predict how many Democratic voters will send the money
back? Or give it to the needy? I predict: Absolutely NONE.