I have this young liberal couple that lives down the street from me. We used to get along fairly well.

Two days ago I was working in yard early one morning and they passed by with the dog and their young son of about ten. Smart young fellow. I shook his hand and asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up. He replied, "I want to be able to make sure all the homeless people have houses and everybody has enough to eat. Especially the drunk guy that hangs out behind the store."

His parents eyes gleamed with liberal approval!

I told him, if he would like to come back and help me, I would pay him twenty dollars but I warned him about the heat and told him I would have a lot of limbs to haul to the road and after we finished, I would pay him and take him to the store so he could give his twenty dollars to the drunk.

He thought for a few seconds and exclaimed, "Mr. Hawk, why can't the bum come and earn his own money?"

I shook his hand once again and told him, "son, welcome to the Republican Party."
His parents are not speaking to me.

Very  good

 
Welcome to the forum Hawk.

Quote from: Solar on July 04, 2020, 05:35:35 AM

Welcome to the forum Hawk.

Thank you @solar. Glad to be here.

As a side note, I've met far too many dogs that were smarter than their liberal masters.

Quote from: HawkTheSlayer on July 04, 2020, 11:21:15 AM
As a side note, I've met far too many dogs that were smarter than their liberal masters.

LOL my cat is smarter then a liberal.

Our church set up a project where members could glean potatoes in a harvested field and give the potatoes to "the less fortunate."

Our teen daughter balked. "Why can't the less fortunate glean their own potatoes?" she asked.

Now, I'm not saying there isn't a place for charity in our world, and we do need to help each other, especially when we encounter true misfortune.

But we need to think about about our actions in light of principles, because what sometimes looks like "help" actually can be enabling dysfunction.

In my mind this thinking, principled approach is what distinguishes liberals from conservatives. Liberals want to build hospitals at the foot of the cliff (fine, but not the entire answer) and conservatives want to put a fence at the top of the cliff to slow the flow of injured into the hospital at the base. For this, liberals castigate conservatives for being uncaring, racist, divisive, and greedy.

The mind boggles.