Thomas Sowell treats us to a fantastic two-fer this week. His second column is about how the left confuses compassion with dependency, and does more in two sentences than I did in several paragraphs.
Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.
Although the big word on the left is “compassion,” the big agenda on the left is dependency.
Here’s two more for good measure:
The intelligentsia have for decades been promoting the idea that there should be no stigma to accepting government handouts. Living off the taxpayers is portrayed as a “right” or — more ponderously — as part of a “social contract.”
Well, here’s my shameless moment……
I know I should be ashamed that I found this satisfying instead of sad, but…..
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/09/18/protester-dies-after-inhaling-fumes-from-burning-american-flag/