RE: On Shopping, Generosity, and Christmas
I think you've missed the point with regard to the concern from the Right over the continued attacks by the Left on Wal-Mart, Strother. While Wal-Mart may or may not make its financial goals during the Christmas season, the continuing dialog on Wal-Mart has little or nothing to do with that. The concern regarding the attacks is not new-found simply for the holidays.
The concern from the Right is over the knee-jerk reaction many politicans will have over the continuous whining from the Left about "fairness" with regard to Wal-Mart's hiring and compensation policies. The legislation in Maryland and other pending items in legislatures around the country are nothing but rank socialism. This, and not whether Wal-Mart is going to be able to keep its shareholders happy is what concerns people on the Right.
Then again, it would be in the Left's interest to reduce the argument to a self-serving concern over Wal-Mart's profits. Does that mean you are performing a useful function for the Left in furthering that position?
I think the discussion of generosity of the Left versus that of the Right has already answered your questions. Those with "conservative" tendencies will continue to be generous, those with "liberal" tendencies will continue to ignore the needy and hypocritically attack the right for being hard-hearted. Further, those on the Right will continue to apply charity and generosity directly to the places where it is most effective while those on the Left will continue to demand that government confiscate resources by force so that the majority of those resources can be inefficiently squandered in maintaining the bureaucracy and redistributed in an arbitrary fashion.
With regard to the Peanuts clip, I remember seeing that when I was a kid. Isn't it ironic that broadcasting something like that today generates all sorts of protests and even the odd lawsuit or two?
The concern from the Right is over the knee-jerk reaction many politicans will have over the continuous whining from the Left about "fairness" with regard to Wal-Mart's hiring and compensation policies. The legislation in Maryland and other pending items in legislatures around the country are nothing but rank socialism. This, and not whether Wal-Mart is going to be able to keep its shareholders happy is what concerns people on the Right.
Then again, it would be in the Left's interest to reduce the argument to a self-serving concern over Wal-Mart's profits. Does that mean you are performing a useful function for the Left in furthering that position?
Will they share their blessings with those other than immediate family members and will give both the material and the non-material for reasons greater than obligation and guilt? Will they actually help someone in their efforts to give? Maybe. But it’s already clear that many of us will simply argue our defenses about whatever we do up until, during, and after Christmas. And as usual, these defenses will effectively help no one.
I think the discussion of generosity of the Left versus that of the Right has already answered your questions. Those with "conservative" tendencies will continue to be generous, those with "liberal" tendencies will continue to ignore the needy and hypocritically attack the right for being hard-hearted. Further, those on the Right will continue to apply charity and generosity directly to the places where it is most effective while those on the Left will continue to demand that government confiscate resources by force so that the majority of those resources can be inefficiently squandered in maintaining the bureaucracy and redistributed in an arbitrary fashion.
With regard to the Peanuts clip, I remember seeing that when I was a kid. Isn't it ironic that broadcasting something like that today generates all sorts of protests and even the odd lawsuit or two?
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