Forget the Feel Good Stuff
September 28, 2007 by Taylor Willingham
What should we do about Darfur?
Ron Paul thinks we should ONLY focus on safety and security NOT the feel good stuff like ending genocide. What?
Seriously, I need a little feel good. I want a country that I feel good about. A country that has compassion, leadership, vision. What’s wrong with doing something that feels good!
We are a nation of nations. Whenever someone hurts, we are hurt. Keyes is actually making sense and I support his call on humanitarian order. Had to at least find one thing in every candidate to like! It’s just taking longer with some than with others!
Actually, Ron Paul says the GOVERNMENT should focus only on safety and security.
by supporting NGOs like the Red Cross, Amnesty International, etc., where the help actually reaches the people concerned instead of ending up in the pockets of brutal dictators and bloody regimes like the bulk of the so called “foreign aid”. It´s not the job of the government to take this responsibility from us.
It´s up to us as INDIVIDUALS to show compassion (and get to “feel good”