American Conservatives more generous than American Liberals???

Question

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/204/story_20419_1.html
What do you think??

Answer 1

Very true. Liberals are more talk, less action; conservatives are less talk, more action. The data shows conservatives give more money, more time, and even donate more blood.

Answer 2

The study is vague on a couple of points.

How does one define a charity? Is the NRA a charity? Is a Right-to-Life advocacy group a charity? How much of the charitable contribution goes to the needy and how much is used by televangelists for purposes of sodomy and infidelity?.

My brother is a born again and joined the PTL club. He had a PTL Bible that had about 30 glossy plates of Jim Baker's Christian theme park preceding the Book of Genesis (very tasteful) and one plate of the PTL's good works...one figure on this plate was a photograph of about 20 people in front of a boulder...it was labelled Bolivian Schol for the Deaf.

Answer 3

I read the article and it's your typical "teaser", that Liberals (sadly) have resorted to using, in order to sell copy! I'm a diehard Liberal and would never resort to such shameless ploys, but it did stir my generous blood, I admit, to even THINK of à "Little Piggies", ("White Album") rolling in the dirt, then giving out, his bacon to the poor!

As IF!!! And the writer knows it. Beliefnet is not to be trusted. It shamelessly panders to both sides, like the prostitute who sells out her mob boss date to score some blow from her pimp!

Don't believe it folks! Liberals are the givers, and they do it without caveats or quid pro quos. You don't need to suddenly "Find Jesus" or sit through boring sermons or evangelical indoctrinations to get a hot meal and some blankets, with us!

DAMMIT, this makes me sick! If Hunter threw a bag of dead cats over the White House fence when Tricky Dick got re-elected, then I'll catapult a COW in a burkah, if anyone actually produces tangible evidence that Rethug/Wingers have ANYTHING but their own interests.

Everyone knows the Rethugs thought up the whole block-grant thing, which was just an excuse to parcel out $ to people they LIKED, or who'd help their elections, rather then help anyone who needed helping!

In my supposed state of "Liberal" Mass (yeah, RIGHT!), Idiot-child Mitt Romney (R.) "governor", who has had the nerve to bandy words about running for Prez, authorized that MILLIONS be cut from education, police, firefighters, state aid for health for the poor and so on...to send it to a highway project which was a black-hole of money-wasting, and eventually human suffering and death (a woman was killed by a badly-placed concrete slab).

The poor victim's family can be consoled, I suppose that, though their friends in contracting will have work for a LONG time to come, though their kids don't have art programs or libraries and will have about 2/3 the number of profs in our once-great State colleges and flagship school, UMASS.

Romney, a Rethug, is just like his compadres, an elitist thug who will use ANY means necessary to stomp down the rising proletariat, state educational system and secure the ascendancy of his progeny's foul legacy.

Yeah, Rethugs & neo-cons "give" alright...but only to their OWN!
GET A CLUE!

Answer 4

Hard to draw conclusions without seeing the data, but I do wonder if he has considered that there is more to give than money. I have given *at least* 1200 hours in support of charitable organization. Additionally, I don't really think donation to churches should count all that much unless a large amount of it is going into secular social programs.

Answer 5

Interesting - I'd be interested to see his sources for this. I give a lot of money to some organizations, but I'm not sure they all qualify as charities. Those that DO qualify as charities are often religious in nature, and I make a point of NOT giving them money. I wonder if that would have influenced his decision.

I give to my colleges, Planned Parenthood, Doctors Without Borders, and various pro-science organizations. I don't know if any of those would have fallen under their definition of 'charity'.

I'm also a poor grad student. I can barely afford to give anything as it is - I'll give more when I have a real job.

Answer 6

American Conservatives more generous than American Liberals??

ONLY with OTHER PEOPLES money!

Answer 7

Charity suits conservatives because it allows them to choose where they give the considerable sums they earn rather than have it judged equitably by elected representatives of everyone. People give because they feel bad that someone should be less well off than themselves - that's why I give - and I'm partisan in my choices just like everyone. The largest sum I've ever given to charity (and for me it was a LOT of money) was for the victims of the Pakistan earthquake in 2005. But I would prefer charity to be met by public donation and distributed without prejudice. There are going to be some people who believe that some mission to convert the natives of Borneo needs their money more than battered women in their neighbourhood. These decisions should be made without prejudice by the people we elect. Otherwise you end up with bizarre scenarios like we have in Britain, where animal charities get more income from donations than charities looking after neglected children. I have admitted to being partisan, but I disapprove of that imbalance. That is why the conservative privilege to choose where they give their money should be removed.

Oh, and it hardly needs mentioning that charitable giving is, for the very wealthy, very tax-advantageous.

Answer 8

the failings he cites have not something TO DO with generosity? "interior the e book, he cites extensive information prognosis to illustrate that values recommended by conservatives -- from church attendance and a couple of-confirm families to the Protestant paintings ethic and a distaste for government-funded social centers -- make conservatives greater generous than liberals." what do any of those issues would desire to do with giving returned? perhaps attending chuch, in case you provide to the church, and the church is lively interior the community, yet that's a attain at appropriate purely going off attendance... merely simply by fact somebody has a paintings ethic, it does not lead them to generous... merely simply by fact 2 human beings paintings interior the family members... it does not lead them to generous... and merely simply by fact human beings hate government courses, it relatively does not lead them to generous... generosity is how plenty time and money they provide... era it feels like somebody who needs to make money merchandising books to conservatives to lead them to experience greater advantageous... i will purchase a Michael Moore e book that proclaims the president is a criminal and likewise "cites extensive information prognosis"... could you have faith that?

Answer 9

I think that is something people already knew. The difference is conservatives want to give of their own volition rather than have a liberal congress pass bills that take decide where their money goes.

Answer 10

The way it seems is that conservative give out of their own generosity, liberals want us to give by law. Also liberals seem to give their time more for fighting for those laws, while conservatives are still out there giving their time and money to the people who actually need it.