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Quote by: Milton Bradley Dude, are you feeling persecuted, or what? Obviously that is a blind jab meant to illicit a negative kneejerk reaction. How do I know? It's a huge aaumption on your part.
Perhaps it is beause the bible has no real place in this discussion, since we originally talking about government policies. Again, I think you are asking to be persecuted for your Christian views, only because you keep bringing it up in the wrong discussions.
My contention was that the government prevents me from giving to the charity of my choice by donating all my monies where they see fit. ( Like both sides of the Isreal, Palestine conflict. )
My point was that the U.S. government was never empowered to donate my monies anywhere in the name of charity. That is what we were attemting to discuss here. |
I certainly agree with you that the government oversteps its proper bounds. There was much more individual contribution for charitable purposes before the gov. decided to horn in on what people were doing much more efficiently than the gov. has since it became involved in being charitable with other people's money I guess you heard about Davy Crockett and his comment when congress was proposing rebuilding a widow's property which she had lost by fire. He rebuked them, saying that they had no such authority and then proposed that if the congressment were really sympathetic, they would donate their own money rather than the people's money. I think the "good hearted" congressmen decided to drop the matter. With today's media, Crockett's real point would be ignored altogether and he would be ridiculed in papers across the country for being "heartless."