How charitable are "progressives"

George Will with a great post that lays out the statistics to what we already know from life lessons.

Liberals talk a big game but when it really comes to compassion, but they never back back it up with money.

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Although liberal families' incomes average 6 percent higher than those of conservative families, conservative-headed households give, on average, 30 percent more to charity than the average liberal-headed household ($1,600 per year vs. $1,227).

Conservatives also donate more time and give more blood.

Residents of the states that voted for John Kerry in 2004 gave smaller percentages of their incomes to charity than did residents of states that voted for George Bush.

Bush carried 24 of the 25 states where charitable giving was above average.

In the 10 reddest states, in which Bush got more than 60 percent majorities, the average percentage of personal income donated to charity was 3.5. Residents of the bluest states, which gave Bush less than 40 percent, donated just 1.9 percent.

People who reject the idea that "government has a responsibility to reduce income inequality" give an average of four times more than people who accept that proposition.

So I guess we shouldn't be surprised when we see Obamania's tax returns show charitable contributions for the amount money he was able to find in his couch cushions the past year.

I'm presently working out my schedule this summer and one of the things I really want to take on is a trip to New Orleans or South Africa to do some work to help those communities.

While the boys from Plunderbund want to rip on religious types, I would like to throw this to those guys. When is the last time a pack of atheists ever did a damn thing for anyone?

I've have yet to see the Atheists for a better New Orleans group out there. Where are all these atheists that have done a Habitat for Humanity home?

The fact is you will never find one, because these guys never actually want to look at a problem. I would say "progressives" just want to cut a check and let someone else handle it but, as the facts above prove, they don't even want to do that.