Dennis Prager on Society's Moral Character

[CG6468]

Ten Ways Progressive Policies Harm Society's Moral Character
Tuesday, July 19, 2011

While liberals are certain about the moral superiority of liberal policies, the truth is that those policies actually diminish a society's moral character. Many individual liberals are fine people, but the policies they advocate tend to make a people worse. Here are 10 reasons:

1. The bigger the government, the less the citizens do for one another. If the state will take care of me and my neighbors, why should I? This is why Western Europeans, people who have lived in welfare states far longer than Americans have, give less to charity and volunteer less time to others than do Americans of the same socioeconomic status.

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2. The welfare state, though often well intended, is nevertheless a Ponzi scheme. Conservatives have known this for generations. But now, any honest person must acknowledge it. The welfare state is predicated on collecting money from today's workers in order to pay for those who paid in before them. But today's workers don't have enough money to sustain the scheme, and there are too few of them to do so. As a result, virtually every welfare state in Europe, and many American states, like California, are going broke.

3. Citizens of liberal welfare states become increasingly narcissistic. The great preoccupations of vast numbers of Brits, Frenchmen, Germans and other Western Europeans are how much vacation time they will have and how early they can retire and be supported by the state.

4. The liberal welfare state makes people disdain work. Americans work considerably harder than Western Europeans, and contrary to liberal thought since Karl Marx, work builds character.

Prager's Article

[JohnnyReb]

OK, so he nailed it. Do you think anyone on the left is listening or if they are, gives a sh*t?

[CG6468]

OK, so he nailed it. Do you think anyone on the left is listening or if they are, gives a sh*t?

They'd deny it and spin it.

[MrsSmith]

10. The leftist weltanschauung sees society's and the world's great battle as between rich and poor rather than between good and evil. Equality therefore trumps morality. This is what produces the morally confused liberal elites that can venerate a Cuban tyranny with its egalitarian society over a free and decent America that has greater inequality.

None of this matters to progressives. Against all this destructiveness, they will respond not with arguments to refute these consequences of the liberal welfare state, but by citing the terms "social justice" and "compassion," and by labeling their opponents "selfish" and worse.

If you want to feel good, liberalism is awesome. If you want to do good, it is largely awful.

Absolutely true.  Too bad so many on the left are so willing to embrace evil in order to defeat their "enemy"...namely anyone with a little more than they have.  The most selfish are those that fail to see their own greed.

[JohnnyReb]

Absolutely true.  Too bad so many on the left are so willing to embrace evil in order to defeat their "enemy"...namely anyone with a little more than they have.  The most selfish are those that fail to see their own greed.

Who was the most generous? ...The old woman that gave her last two coppers for it was all she had.

The DUmmies will vote take your last two coppers and see themselves as being very generous.

[vesta111]

Who was the most generous? ...The old woman that gave her last two coppers for it was all she had.

The DUmmies will vote take your last two coppers and see themselves as being very generous.

Anyone consider that our government WANTS as many people as it can get into the country as they now realise that Abortion has robbed us of future tax payers and cannon fodder for defence?????

Interesting concept I was told by an acquaints when discussing why we cannot or WILL not seal our southern border.

Their argument is that the Latinos are mostly Roman Catholics and do not do abortion or birth control.   The States that give out welfare to illegals and kids that are now American citizens are looking to the future, 20-30 years from now when the population of those that Abort have no children to replace them.

Abortion is making in roads to both White and Black community's, The Muslims are breeding like rabbits.

To keep this country Judo- Christian we need the Latinos, illegal or not to fill in for the huge Abortion rate of the Black Americans and Whites that are encouraged and even given free Abortions.   

It has become very unpopular to have more then 2 children in American life, so time to bring in a generation of breeders, reward them and perhaps the next generation will overcome the Muslims and protect us..

Interesting concept, but it does in some ways explain the strange policy's in Government.