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shigglyboom -> RE: When an Ex-Master Calls..... (4/8/2008 6:16:06 PM)
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ORIGINAL: trueshadow
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ORIGINAL: shigglyboom
Trueshadow,
As for the "conservatives are more generous" argument - that's a piece of fluff based on far too little evidence to be so widely tauted these days by those who would like it to be true.
Shig
It's a fact conservatives are more generous. Liberals don't give because charity is 'government work'.
"In 2000, households headed by a conservative gave, on average, 30 percent more money to charity than households headed by a liberal ($1,600 to $1,227). This discrepancy is not simply an artifact of income differences; on the contrary, liberal families earned an average of 6 percent more per year than conservative families, and conservative families gave more than liberal families within every income class, from poor to middle class to rich.
If we look at party affiliation instead of ideology, the story remains largely the same. For example, registered Republicans were seven points more likely to give at least once in 2002 than registered Democrats (90 to 83 percent).
The differences go beyond money and time. Take blood donations, for example. In 2002, conservative Americans were more likely to donate blood each year, and did so more often, than liberals. If liberals and moderates gave blood at the same rate as conservatives, the blood supply in the United States would jump by about 45 percent."
"Among the states in which 60 percent or more voted for Bush, the average portion of income donated to charity was 3.5 percent. For states giving Mr. Bush less than 40 percent of the vote, the average was 1.9 percent. The average amount given per household from the five states combined that gave Mr. Bush the highest vote percentages in 2003 was 25 percent more than that donated by the average household in the five northeastern states that gave Bush his lowest vote percentages; and the households in these liberal-leaning states earned, on average, 38 percent more than those in the five conservative states."
etc. etc. etc.
http://www.arthurbrooks.net/excerpt.html
Shadowed Truth,
Without taking this thread any further from the OP, I suggest you might look further than a single source before you make ringing generalizations about Americans' generosity. One can carefully tailor statistics and examples to demonstrate almost any argument, but that doesn't make it true. The wiser among us will refrain from judgment until there is a comprehensive body of evidence, not just skeletons and sensationalism.
Perhaps if there's further debate on this and the shockingly appalling lack of empathy among BDSMers you've discovered, it should take place in a new thread under "Off Topic".
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