Comments on: Institutionalized Charity http://www.naturalcondition.com/2008/01/26/institutionalized-charity/ Informative articles on life, health, and medicine, by Matthew E. Nolan Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:40:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Henry http://www.naturalcondition.com/2008/01/26/institutionalized-charity/#comment-8 Henry Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:13:01 +0000 http://www.naturalcondition.com/2008/01/26/institutionalized-charity/#comment-8 This reminds me of the late, now admired, Ronald Reagan. The year after he spoke eloquently about how individuals should increase donations to charity and "institutionalized charity" is not the governments business, it was revealed he and Nancy gave $1,000 to charities for that tax year. Conservative Republican. I was not impressed. If it is religious conservatives giving more than liberal types, shame on those liberals for speaking up for the poor and not doing enough to help them. Regardless, as a whole, as a people, we should not have our children going to bed hungry or families living on the streets or in their automobiles. Whatever it is we need to do to change that, we should. Not as Republicans or Democrats but as Americans working together. This reminds me of the late, now admired, Ronald Reagan. The year after he spoke eloquently about how individuals should increase donations to charity and “institutionalized charity” is not the governments business, it was revealed he and Nancy gave $1,000 to charities for that tax year. Conservative Republican. I was not impressed.

If it is religious conservatives giving more than liberal types, shame on those liberals for speaking up for the poor and not doing enough to help them.

Regardless, as a whole, as a people, we should not have our children going to bed hungry or families living on the streets or in their automobiles. Whatever it is we need to do to change that, we should. Not as Republicans or Democrats but as Americans working together.

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