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There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. a politician who portrays himself as "caring" and "sensitive" because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to try to do good with other people's money. well, who isn't? and a voter who takes pride in supporting such programs is telling us that he'll do good with his own money - if a gun is held to his head.

-P. J. O'Rourke

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There Is No Virtue In Compulsory Government

P. J. O'Rourke

There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. a politician who portrays himself as "caring" and "sensitive" because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to try to do good with other people's money. well, who isn't? and a voter who takes pride in supporting such programs is telling us that he'll do good with his own money - if a gun is held to his head.

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A politician who commends himself as 'caring' and 'sensitive' because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to do good with other peoples' money.

To walk in money through the night crowd, protected by money, lulled by money, dulled by money, the crowd itself a money, the breath money, no least single object anywhere that is not money. money, money everywhere and still not enough! and then no money, or a little money, or less money, or more money but money always money. and if you have money, or you don't have money, it is the money that counts, and money makes money, but what makes money make money?

What i think people should realize is that programs like social security, programs like medicare, programs like the veterans administration, programs like your local park and your local library - those are, if you like, socialist programs; they're run by [and] for the public, not to make money. i think in many ways we should expand that concept so that the american people can enjoy the same benefits that people all over the world are currently enjoying.

I don't see sarah palin suddenly spilling over to a wider group where suddenly they go, "wait a minute, i've heard her message, and now i'm beginning..." it's not expanding it. a politician that doesn't expand from the base is not a good politician. so i disagree with all the talking heads that go "well, she's a very good politician." she's not! good politicians expand, and she doesn't.

I am a political recidivist. an incorrigible, repeat voter. a career lever-pusher. my electoral rap sheet is as long as your arm. over the course of three decades, i have voted for presidents and school board members. i have voted in high hopes and high dudgeon. i have voted in favor of candidates and merely against their opponents. i have voted for propositions written with such complexity that i needed noam chomsky to deconstruct their meaning. i have been a single-issue voter and a marginal voter. i have even voted for people who ran unopposed. hold an election and i'll be there.

Charity feeds the poor, so does pride; charity builds an hospital, so does pride. in this they differ: charity gives her glory to god; pride takes her glory from man.

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