Write Your Own Damn Check

Uninformed and/or lying UN bureaucrat Jan Egeland has created a fire-storm of controversy by calling the US stingy. He calls us stingy even though while the US makes up 5% of the world’s population, it contributes over 1/3 of the world’s total humanitarian aid. Only 1/3? How stingy can 5% of the world’s population be!! First, you’d think that after the mismanaged UN Iraqi oil-for-Chirac program people from the UN would quietly go about cleaning up their own cesspool of corruption before they point their crooked, boney, finely manicured fingers at anybody else.

When confronted, Egeland retreated faster than the French army saying he didn’t say what he clearly said; that he didn’t mean what he clearly meant; that his statements that need no context, were taken out of context. When confronted on Fox News by Chris Wallace with tapes of his remarks, Egeland’s smooth bureaucratic style was of little use. He appeared to be either a very poor liar, like an eight-year-old kid caught with his hand in the cookie jar, “Honest mom, I was looking for my Gameboy.” or a complete psychopath who tells obvious lies straight-faced but doesn’t know that what he just said was a lie, like…oh I don’t know…Bill Clinton.

But liberals are like buzzards, all it takes is the scent of scandal against America for them to start circling. No hint of American failure real or imagined, large or small is too crazy or insignificant for liberals to forego a gathering to pick at the bones. So it is for Egeland’s comments. Liberals don’t call Egeland the uniformed dolt he is, like President Bush did in not the same words. They endorse and reinforce his comments.

But liberals have always thought that it is a government’s responsibility to dispense charity – and the more the better. Liberals always get their best ideas when they are spending other people’s money. They are the limousine liberals that oppose vouchers while sending their own children to private schools, who oppose gun owner’s rights while they are protected by armed body guards, who oppose SUVs because of poor gas mileage while jetting about the country in private aircraft and who are the most charitable when they are giving away your money. To Al Franken, The New York Times and all other liberals who think that the US response is inadequate – WRITE YOUR OWN DAMN CHECK and give until it hurts. Coerced charity, like that which comes from a government which confiscates funds from its people, is not charity at all.