Oct 05 2008
For Weeks I Have Been Wondering Why Bush Is Getting The Credit
You don’t normally hear of democrats praising Bush. Recently though they have been giving him the credit for making mortgage money available to low income borrowers. He is amazingly being credited with telling federal agencies to include welfare payments and food stamps as income so people with no job and no work history can qualify for morgages. When running for office in 2000 Bush declared himself a “compassionate conservative”. Who knew his compassion went so far? I, a real conservative (though not extreme), am still wondering what a compassionate conservative is. I along with many other conservatives have asked myself over the last 7 years why does Bush do some of the things he does? I think Bush has done many good things but some make me scratch my head and wonder.
Well as usual Thomas Sowell clears a lot of it up. Even though Bush’s generosity with loose lending to people who should be living in apartments is the assigned cause of our current problems he alone is not the only generous, compassionate person.
Read What Thomas Sowell has to say
Here is a very important article by Star Parker
“Prior to her involvement in social activism, Star Parker was a single welfare mother in Los Angeles, California. After receiving Christ, Star returned to college, received a BS degree in marketing, and launched an urban Christian magazine”. Her bio
“As our presidential candidates drone on about our current financial crisis being caused by greedy Wall Street CEOs, a study just released by Canada’s Fraser Institute points to what the real problems are in the United States.
This is an annual compendium called Economic Freedom of the World, which the Fraser Institute produces, in cooperation with an international network of free-market think tanks.
Of central interest here is the fact that there is a direct correlation between the extent to which a country is economically free and how prosperous it is. The more economic freedom, the more prosperity. The less economic freedom, the less prosperity. ”
Be sure to read the full article as her conclusion supports what Thomas Sowell has been saying.
Read Star Parker here and add her to your reference list
Nota Bene: Sheila Jackson-Lee, our representative in congress holds the exact opposite view of our freedom and economics as Sowell and Parker.
