I'm actually a very conservative person...
I'm a strong supporter of individual freedoms... personal choice without government intrusion,... I pinch penny's 'till they bleed, and save all I can... I conserve my money, don't waste resources, recycle, and reuse...  I can't throw food away, unless it walks off on it's own...

I don't see the conservative ideals in the conservative party.... They are for restricting personal freedoms and choices,...  waste of resources, and rampant, wasteful consumerism...
"W said support the war by going shopping"...

But,... as a citizen of the richest and most powerful country in the world,... I'm for the humane treatment of all people in this country...  
Again, this should be a right-wing religious, conservative value...
Jesus said that what ever you do for the least of his brothers, you have done for him.

The main difference is that I think government should insure this care for all needy, instead of relying on individual charity...
I was never one to pick the cute puppy at the pound... but many people are...  and with private charity the cute child, or more sanitary disease gets the money...  

Serowbot -

I'll truly take issue with your idea that private charities only care for the cute kid.

On of my esteemed friends who is a successful plaintiffs' attorney (ambulance chaser to some, but not accurate) personally funds and supports an orphanage in Romania.

If you remember in the early 1990s, as the Warsaw Pact was falling apart, it became known in the Western world that Romania was in the worst shape of all of the former Eastern Bolc countries.  It had been pillaged first by the Germans in WW II, then it continued to be robbed by its own communist rulers.  It had a huge AIDS problem, and any deformed child, or child born with any birth defect was usually simply put out on the sidewalk to die.  Without doubt, Romania was the poorest country in Europe.

My friend and a very few others from his city started this orphanage that now serves about 100 kids at a time - mainly to get them out of there and adopted by Western couples, in the U.S. and elsewhere.  Most of the kids they serve have a problem or two - that's why they are in the orphanage.  They aren't real orphans - just abandoned by their birth parents.

And before somebody says there are kids here who need help - that's a cop-out.  There are kids everywhere who need help; none better than any others, regardless of where they are.

There are hundreds of private charities like this one, here and abroad.  We don't hear much about them because they are more interested in the good works they do rather than publicity.

 Any charities is like any thing else in this country theirs people who skim    off the top 10% goes to the cause 90% to pay for the crooks that run it.

Yahoo headline today "America no longer the land of oppertunity"
it is now "The land of unemployment".
Even if we wanted to help the cause by buying American,it cant be done ,Although I did manage to find a very nice pocket knife made in USA the make was "Sod Buster" but you really have to look hard.,make's me fu*king sick, that godam sh1t from china is just that,SH1T.
have you noticed how much better things are if you are lucky enough to find some thing made in the good old US of A,it was the same in England,I don't even know if you can still buy Shefield Steel any more
Britain was once a great nation making some of the best stuff in the world,.like tools,shoes,clothing,I could go on all day.All gone now,,,boo hoo.

Midnightrider wrote on 07/16/10 at 19:22:04:

very true Midnight, I loved George Carlin,I' would be supprised if any one here likes him because he was an athiest.

Celente is a regular guest on Alex Jones. He made a study of the things that boggled the minds of most people & got rich because of it. I listen to what that man says.