Reply #17: Just recently I read about the large number of [View All]

people in the more conservative states who are in a position of having to receive public assisstance. I am in no way stating this fact negatively, because I realize that the economy and lack of jobs contributes greatly to the welfare problem. But with less income, how CAN they give so much more to charity and still manage to pay bills and feed their children? It seems like an oxymoron. Or is it a paradox? Impossible, but true?

In my "fuzzy" way of thinking it just seems that if there are far fewer people in those states, with far lower incomes, isn't it unfair to compare that fewer number of people to a much larger number of people whose incomes may be higher and then come out and say that the fewer number is more generous?

I think this is just another way for the conservatives to bash the libs by using an unfair means of making comparisons.