Reply #23: I get what you are saying - my liberal family happily paid taxes to

[jwirr]

help people. One of the big reasons people like *ss do not like government programs and prefer "charity" is because they are unwilling to have the government decide what to do with the money.

Did they look at the kinds of charities and how effective they were at solving the issues in this book? Did they just look at money given to any organization with a non-profit charitable status? My historical society fits into that category and we do not do anything to help the poor. The church I used to go to also fit into that category but did little actual community work. They called charity giving for the new refrigerator in the church kitchen.

I am calling the criteria of the book into question not the facts that they reported. If just giving to a non-profit is the goal then yes, pugs do better than Democrats. I still would take the Democrats.