“If I’m not more equal than others, someone else will be. If I don’t do it, someone else will.”
People such as GeorgeSoros and Michael Moore certainly talk a good game, but the next MotherTeresa they are not. Mother Teresa never criticized the free-marketsystem; wealth just wasn’t for her. Soros and Moore are quite theopposite. They will never take a vow of poverty and dedicate themselvesto helping the poor. They just want our civilization to take a vow ofpoverty and become poor.
Thishas caused many to wonder: How can someone preach socialism while beingthe most rapacious “capitalist” imaginable? Well, I have a theory aboutthis.
It has often beenobserved that those who preach liberalism the most practice charity theleast, and research bears this out. For example, in a piece titled”Bleeding Heart Tightwads,” self-proclaimed liberal Nicholas Kristof wrote:
Arthur Brooks, the authorof a book on donors to charity, ‘Who Really Cares,’ cites data thathouseholds headed by conservatives give 30 percent more to charity thanhouseholds headed by liberals. A study by Google found an even greaterdisproportion: average annual contributions reported by conservativeswere almost double those of liberals.
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Now, let’s talk aboutthat seemingly greedy man, George Soros. As a 14-year-old Jewish boy inNazi-occupied Budapest, Hungary in 1944, he posed as the godson of agovernment official who had been bribed to protect him. Soros thenaccompanied his protector while the man would make his roundsconfiscating property from Jews who were being shipped off to deathcamps. During a 60 Minutes interview with Steve Kroft, Soros said he felt no guilt over this and explained why, stating,”Well, of course I c — I could be on the other side or I could be theone from whom the thing is being taken away. But there was no sensethat I shouldn’t be there, because that was — well, actually, in afunny way, it’s just like in markets — that if I weren’t there — ofcourse, I wasn’t doing it, but somebody else would.”