The Left Is Vindictively Selfish, To Put It Charitably
From James Taranto, via Mark Noonan:
"Democrats like to present themselves as the party of the downtrodden while characterizing the GOP as the party of the selfish rich. But a study by the Catalogue of Philanthropy suggests the opposite may be true. The Catalogue ranked all 50 states based on the percentage of adjusted gross income their residents donated to charity. The top five states were Mississippi, Arkansas, South Dakota, Oklahoma and Alabama, all of which President Bush carried. Indeed, all of the top 24 finishers are 'red' states; New York, at #25, is the highest-ranking 'blue' one. Only four red states appear in the bottom 12: Virginia, Colorado, Arizona and Nevada."
Michelle Malkin has the actual listing here.
As if to brag about their preference for outsourcing generosity, "A post on DemocraticUnderground.com, by someone called 'mgdecombe' offers one explanation:
Got a call from the March of Dimes today. I listened to the woman's prepared text, and said, "I'm sorry, we will no longer be donating, please take us off your list." She asked why, and I said, "Due to the election results, we have decided not to enable the Bush Administration by supporting charitable organizations who are filling the vaccuum [sic] caused by his mishandling of the country. It's all up to President Bush now."
She sounded surprised.
We will say this to all of the organizations we donated to last year, when they come a' callin' this month and next.
For the next four years, we help our own, and that is it. We contribute to political causes, and that is it.
"Liberals, it seems, are quite generous--but only with other people's money."
Will Rogers first made that observation some seventy years ago.
Still, don't be surprised if "mgdecombe" and friends increase their contributions to Muslim "charities" dramatically over the next four years, seeing as how "The more illiberal the religion, it seems, the more liberals are likely to e[mbrace] it."
"Democrats like to present themselves as the party of the downtrodden while characterizing the GOP as the party of the selfish rich. But a study by the Catalogue of Philanthropy suggests the opposite may be true. The Catalogue ranked all 50 states based on the percentage of adjusted gross income their residents donated to charity. The top five states were Mississippi, Arkansas, South Dakota, Oklahoma and Alabama, all of which President Bush carried. Indeed, all of the top 24 finishers are 'red' states; New York, at #25, is the highest-ranking 'blue' one. Only four red states appear in the bottom 12: Virginia, Colorado, Arizona and Nevada."
Michelle Malkin has the actual listing here.
As if to brag about their preference for outsourcing generosity, "A post on DemocraticUnderground.com, by someone called 'mgdecombe' offers one explanation:
Got a call from the March of Dimes today. I listened to the woman's prepared text, and said, "I'm sorry, we will no longer be donating, please take us off your list." She asked why, and I said, "Due to the election results, we have decided not to enable the Bush Administration by supporting charitable organizations who are filling the vaccuum [sic] caused by his mishandling of the country. It's all up to President Bush now."
She sounded surprised.
We will say this to all of the organizations we donated to last year, when they come a' callin' this month and next.
For the next four years, we help our own, and that is it. We contribute to political causes, and that is it.
"Liberals, it seems, are quite generous--but only with other people's money."
Will Rogers first made that observation some seventy years ago.
Still, don't be surprised if "mgdecombe" and friends increase their contributions to Muslim "charities" dramatically over the next four years, seeing as how "The more illiberal the religion, it seems, the more liberals are likely to e[mbrace] it."
posted by JASmius at 3:39 PM
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