Red and Blue Charitable Giving
Michele Malkin has a post up today on The Generosity Index published by the The Catalogue For Philanthropy, which is for real. It is computed by taking each state’s average income and average charitable contribution, then subtracting the second rank from the first to get a single number for each state
Then in the post she has a graphical table of the states, ranked in order and how they voted in the recent election (Red vs. Blue).
This Boston Globe op-ed by Jeff Jacoby from May 2003: In ‘enlightened’ New England, it hurts to give
The Red-Blue state divide is rather interesting–but I want to expand on the results amd share a thought on it.
In a column that ran in the NY Daily News yesterday, WaPo columnist, (far?)-left pundit, Richard Cohen wrote the following:
Sometimes, a voter may actually decide to vote against his or her economic self-interest. In an earlier column, I cited Jewish voters as an example. As a definable group, they are among the wealthiest in the country, and yet time and time again they vote overwhelmingly Democratic. Most Jews are not voting Democratic out of mere habit. They are making a conscious decision to forgo an economic benefit for something that matters more - a cultural imperative for social justice. They believe in social welfare programs. They believe in redistributing wealth (some of it, anyway) and they believe firmly in civil rights and civil liberties. What are these rights worth? Anything you can name, because history teaches that without them, even the pursuit of happiness is futile.
Besides the fact that I think most Jews still do indeed vote Democrat out of habit/tradition, that’s not my point here.
In the italicized part of Cohen’s lines represent what I see as a big difference between Red and Blue America. There’s a popular misconception that Red America doesn’t care for the “social welfare” of others. That Red America isn’t committed to “social justice” (which is a term that’s been hijacked by the left).
Rather, the difference between Red and Blue America, I believe, is that Blue States seem to want the Goverment to be the one in charge of all these “social welfare” types of programs.
In contrast, in the Red States, the people still believve in helping out others, but believe private philanthropy is a more efficient/productive/beneficial manner in order to achieve the goal. That is, they believe in helping out others, but just that it’s not the goverment’s job to do it.
However, looking at the chart and seeing the differences in the donations to charity is rather striking–do the blue states not give as much to charity because they feel that’s what their tax dollars are for?
Michele Malkin Catches Up
I remember hearing Michael Medved use my Watcher of Weasels award-winning piece from last year (November 6, 2003, to be exact) entitled Generosity in Red and Blue. It wasn’t attributed by him as it was probably forwarded to him, but it was pretty muc…
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Program on the emergence of civilization.
“14 species of large animals capable of domesitcation in the history of mankind.
None from the sub-Saharan African continent.
13 from Europe, Asia and northern Africa.”
Favor.
And disfavor.
They point out Africans’ attempts to domesticate the elephant and zebra, the latter being an animal they illustrate that had utmost importance for it’s applicability in transformation from a hunting/gathering to agrarian-based civilization.
The roots of racism are not of this earth.
Austrailia, aboriginals:::No domesticable animals.
The North American continent had none. Now 99% of that population is gone.
Organizational Heirarchy
Heirarchical order, from top to bottom:
1. MUCK - perhaps have experienced multiple universal contractions (have seen multiple big bangs), creator of the artificial intelligence humans ignorantly refer to as “god”
2. Perhaps some mid-level alien management –
3. Mafia (evil) aliens - runs day-to-day operations here and perhaps elsewhere (”On planets where they approved evil.”)
Then we come to terrestrial management:
4. Chinese/egyptians - this may be separated into the eastern and western worlds
5. Romans - they answer to the egyptians
6. Mafia - the real-world interface that constantly turns over generationally so as to reinforce the widely-held notion of mortality
7. Jews, corporation, women, politician - Evidence exisits to suggest mafia management over all these groups.
Survival of the favored.
Movies foreshadowing catastrophy
1986 James Bond View to a Kill – 1989 San Fransisco Loma Prieta earthquake.
Journal: 10 composition books + 39 megs of text files
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