Poverty and the government

I'm not a socialist, not that there's anything wrong with that.

But one thing I share with socialists and christians and many other "bleeding hearters" is that I think poverty is a very bad thing. In addition I think government can and should do something to fight poverty, even as I think that no individual has a specific obligation to "fight poverty".

If you think similarly on these issues you might find the website Poverty Scorecard to be very interesting. Unfortunately, it won't exactly be educational because it bears out what you already know; conservative ideologues vote against bills that might be termed "anti-poverty legislation'. And they do so on principle.


Of course, political principles are a slippery thing, so it may be that if enough people insisted, conservative ideologues might reconsider their "pro-poverty" votes* and "find religion", so to speak.



*I'm ironically using the conservative verbal game that brought such prhases as "death tax' and "pro-life" into the lexicon.