Comments on: Schlafly: Congress Contemplates Giving Cash to Foreigners

By: Steve Farrell

Steve Farrell — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:31:06 +0000

Panic and spray06, great thoughts. They are charitable with other people’s money. How saintly of them! Though, I wouldn’t go so far as call it all “well intentioned,” or even most of it. I admit, some of it ignorantly is. But much more of it is about a path to power, in my opinion.

By: spray06

spray06 — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:01:19 +0000

The deviltry going on in the world today is not primarily caused by criminals. The truly malevolent persons are too few in number to account for our wars and the continuing accumulation of vast armaments between major conflicts. The thoroughly evil persons among us are not numerous enough to account for all the racial and national hatreds and prejudices, for labor violence, for the growing belief that the honest fruits of one’s labor no longer belong to the earner, for restrictions on the exchange of goods and services, and for the many other collectivistic inanities and horrors. These things are not the doings of criminals. They originate mostly with the well-intentioned; those who wish to do good to others but who, lacking personal means, thoughtlessly see no harm in employing police establishments to impose their brand of good on the rest of us, to use the fruits of other persons’ labor to satisfy their own charitable instincts.

– Freedom Philosophy Foundation for Economic Education

By: panic

panic — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:25:17 +0000

Charity is a wonderful thing, essentially performing some act of kindness for another, to your own detriment (i.e., you give them something of yours: time, money, property).

Giving them something of yours would be charity. However, since Congress doesn’t own anything, this is not possible.

Giving them something of mine is not charity.

It’s theft.