{"id":221,"date":"2008-03-27T17:10:35","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T00:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/?p=221"},"modified":"2008-03-27T17:10:35","modified_gmt":"2008-03-28T00:10:35","slug":"who-really-cares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/?p=221","title":{"rendered":"Who Really Cares?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That is the title of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arthurbrooks.net\/\">book<\/a> by Arthur C. Brooks that came out a bit ago about the giving habits of Liberal and Conservative Americans.  Republicans have typically been called cold and heartless by Democrats.  Most Liberals truly believe they care more about needy people but if you read this book you&#8217;ll find out they only care when it&#8217;s not their money.<\/p>\n<p>In summary Conservatives actually give more money and blood and Liberals volunteer more time.  It seems the Liberals believe that taking money out of your pocket and giving it to the needy is much better than taking it out of their own.  I don&#8217;t know how else to explain it but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arthurbrooks.net\/excerpt.html\">here&#8217;s a link<\/a> to an excerpt from the book.<\/p>\n<p>This of course does not apply to all Liberals and Conservatives but it&#8217;s certainly interesting that the bad rap we&#8217;ve gotten isn&#8217;t deserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That is the title of a book by Arthur C. Brooks that came out a bit ago about the giving habits of Liberal and Conservative Americans. Republicans have typically been called cold and heartless by Democrats. Most Liberals truly believe they care more about needy people but if you read this book you&#8217;ll find out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}