Here is a book that came out last year about this.
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Important read to understand what is really going on, December 5, 2006
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The numbers are pretty amazing. The average religious conservative gives 100 times as much as the non-religious liberal! I guess that shows who really wants to help.
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So I guess that those evil conservatives gave about $293 Billion while the party of love, caring, and inclusion ponied up about $2 Billion. Way to go conservatives. Leave it to people who don't believe in the effectiveness of government to put their money where their mouth is.
I wonder if all charitable giving were outlawed and given to the strict domain of government, how our society would fair. I understand that only $.25 of every $1 going to welfare actually reaches the people it is intended for. The rest of the money is spent on expensive cars and office buildings for government bureaucrats. I think that the charitable spending is prolly much more efficient in the private charities.
Coincidentally, I think this is a demonstration of AC prinicples where the private sector comes through where the government does not.