The Case Against Liberal Compassion

The Case Against Liberal Compassion - Imprimis
"...America’s welfare state has been growing steadily for almost a century, and is now much bigger than it was at the start of the New Deal in 1932, or at the beginning of the Great Society in 1964.
In 2013 the federal government spent $2.279 trillion—$7,200 per American, two-thirds of all federal outlays, and 14 percent of the Gross Domestic Product—on the five big program areas that make up our welfare state:
1. Social Security;
2. All other income support programs, such as disability insurance or unemployment compensation; 3. Medicare;
4. All other health programs, such as Medicaid; and
5. All programs for education, job training, and social services.
That amount has increased steadily, under Democrats and Republicans, during booms and recessions. ...Overall, the outlays were more than two-and-a-half times as large in 2013 as they had been in 1977.
...—the welfare state is a permanent work-in-progress, and its liberal advocates believe that however many resources it has, it always needs a great deal more.
...Why do liberals feel that no matter how much we’re doing through government programs to alleviate and prevent poverty, whatever we are doing is shamefully inadequate?...
Indifference to Waste and Failure
All conservatives are painfully aware that liberal activists and publicists have successfully weaponized compassion. 
“I am a liberal,” public radio host Garrison Keillor wrote in 2004, “and liberalism is the politics of kindness.” 
Last year President Obama said, “Kindness covers all of my political beliefs..."
Well, if liberalism is the politics of kindness, it follows that its adversary, conservatism, is the politics of cruelty, greed, and callousness. 
Liberals have never been reluctant to connect those dots..."
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