Who Really Cares - Re: Cows, Geopolitics, and Big Business Re: Re: Thy

April 9, 2009

, do you care about truth?

Nancie Barnett wrote:

> Of course there is something to debate , Val but what is the point with

> your narrow conservative view of life that has no empathy for needy people.

> Bush did nothing to help out the country, he created an unneeded war where

> over 4,000 young men and women have died and over 1 million Iraqi's have

> died. Nice.

>

Charity's Political Divide

Republicans give a bigger share of their incomes to charity, says a

prominent economist

By Ben Gose

It's been a tough month for conservatives, with the Republican Party

losing control of both houses of Congress, but a new book being released

this week may help brighten their spirits.

In Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate

Conservatism (Basic Books), Arthur C. finds that religious

conservatives are far more charitable than secular liberals, and that

those who support the idea that government should redistribute income

are among the least likely to dig into their own wallets to help others.

Some of his findings have been touched on elsewhere by other scholars,

but Mr. , a professor of public administration at Syracuse

University, breaks new ground in amassing information from 15 sets of

data in a slim 184-page book (not including the appendix) that he

proudly describes as " a polemic. "

" If liberals persist in their antipathy to religion, " Mr. writes,

" the Democrats will become not only the party of secularism, but also

the party of uncharity. "

Some scholars say Who Really Cares builds on the work of D.

Putnam's Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community,

which was published in 2000.

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