| I believe compassion is a desire to help other people | | | | state program where you take severely disabled |
| that is so overwhelming that you cannot help but go | | | | children for a certain amount of days a month to |
| and help yourself. All my life I have heard about how | | | | give the parents a break. These were children like |
| compassionate liberals are and how greedy | | | | my brother, John, who need 24 hour care. Over the |
| conservatives are. I have spent years looking for | | | | years we got to know many other people who did |
| compassionate liberals. I am here to tell you that they | | | | respite care. By now you can guess it. Most of the |
| are hard to find. Yet everywhere I turn I find | | | | people we met were conservatives. Where is a good |
| compassionate conservatives. In fact it seems that | | | | liberal when it comes to working with the elderly and |
| almost every greedy person I meet is a liberal. It | | | | the poor? Currently my job is as an Activities |
| seems that the definition that the media and liberal | | | | Director at a local senior center. We are unique in |
| organizations for compassion is the willingness to | | | | that not only do we work with the seniors in our |
| force other people to give. They are compassionate | | | | area but we also have one of the largest food banks |
| because they support higher taxes from everyone | | | | in our area. We have over 30 volunteers who work |
| to do those jobs that they are not willing to do | | | | at the center. When I started this position at a |
| themselves. I have a different idea of compassion. I | | | | community senior center filled with retired seniors |
| believe compassion is a desire to help other people | | | | from a liberal community I thought that I would find |
| that is so overwhelming that you cannot help but go | | | | different results. Well, I was wrong. Even here almost |
| and help yourself. Where is a good liberal when it | | | | every single volunteer we have is a conservative. I |
| comes to helping a sick child? To hear liberals talk, | | | | know the people who at several other senior centers |
| you would think that if there were one place where | | | | and food banks. It seems that that is the pattern |
| they would be motivated to action it would be | | | | here is this liberal state. Conservatives do the giving |
| helping sick children. Of course they are willing to use | | | | and liberals do the taking. It is also interesting to note |
| our money to help them but if they were truly | | | | that of all the major relief agencies around the world |
| compassionate wouldn't they be out helping sick | | | | they were all started and are run by conservative |
| children themselves. I have spent a lot of time | | | | Christians. With the exception of the Red Cross, by |
| working with sick children and I can to tell you that it | | | | the way, is an organization that was started by |
| is hard to find a good liberal who takes their time to | | | | Christians. The nations largest food supplier for food |
| work with sick children. Here are some examples. My | | | | banks is Second Harvest, which happens to be |
| little brother, John, was born with maximum brain | | | | another Christian organization. I can not speak for |
| damage. When John was two they started working | | | | other states but it happens to be that the majority |
| with this program to try and teach the part of the | | | | of the food banks in our state are run by |
| brain that was there to do the things that the things | | | | conservative Churches. Where is a good liberal when |
| that the part that was not their was supposed to do. | | | | it comes to taking care of AIDS patients? When you |
| The program needed 20 volunteers. So my parents | | | | listen to the media talk about AIDS, you would think |
| wrote the local newspaper that wrote an article | | | | that this is a place where only a liberal would tread. |
| about John and the need for volunteers. The | | | | One of the charities I give to is one that works with |
| response was great and they had enough volunteers | | | | children who were orphaned by the AIDS crisis in |
| to run the program. Before I get to the punch line let | | | | Africa. Many of whom were born with AIDS |
| me explain something about where we live. We live in | | | | themselves. As with most of us, I have been |
| the great state of Washington. On of the most liberal | | | | concerned about the millions of people in Africa who |
| states in America. It is also on of the most | | | | are dying of AIDS. So when I was introduced to this |
| unchurched sates in America with less than one out | | | | organization I jumped on the opportunity to support |
| of ten people going to church on a regular basis. So it | | | | it. I assumed that it was one of the few Christian |
| would figure that most of the volunteers would be | | | | organizations doing this kind of work in Africa. I was |
| secular liberals. That was not the case. Not only were | | | | wrong. The people with the mission tell me that most |
| the majority of the volunteers conservative Christian, | | | | of the organizations across Southern Africa that are |
| but rather all of the volunteers were conservative | | | | working with AIDS victims are Christian organizations. |
| Christians. Yes, not one single liberal person | | | | In preparing for this article I did some research and I |
| responded to this article in a liberal newspaper in a | | | | found that almost all the organizations that are |
| liberal area. I found the same thing when I was a | | | | working with AIDS in Africa are sponsored by |
| volunteer at a children's hospital. I knew several of | | | | Conservative Churches. Conclusion The purpose of |
| the paid staff who considered themselves liberal. It is | | | | this article is not to suggest that liberals do not have |
| one thing to get paid well to do something | | | | compassion. It is to dispel the commonly held notion |
| compassionate but I think the real compassion is | | | | that conservatives are not. In fact the most |
| shown by those people who are so driven to help | | | | conservative person running for President in the next |
| that they are willing to do it on a volunteer basis. This | | | | presidential election is Ron Paul. Ron Paul is a MD who |
| children's hospital was located in one of the most | | | | has gone to Africa each year for many years to |
| liberal areas of our liberal state. Here I found the | | | | provide free medical services for the poor of that |
| same thing. Almost all the volunteers I met along the | | | | continent. Still the truth is, if you need help sometime |
| way were not only politically conservative they were | | | | in your life it will probably come from the hands of a |
| Christians as well. Hmm, is there a pattern here? My | | | | conservative and in site of what the liberals in the |
| wife and I did respite care for years. For those of | | | | media tell us each day, Christian conservatives are |
| you who are not familiar with this, respite care is | | | | most likely to show compassion. |