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By Ed Rutledge
Libertarian for Illinois Lt. Governor
08/30/2010
Unless you are a hermit, you are part of a community. Your community is made up of your friends, family, and neighbors. So who is best able to meet the specific needs of members of your community – you, and the other concerned members of your community, or an indifferent bureaucracy located hundreds or even thousands of miles away?
When you ask big government to take care of your community, you are really asking big bureaucracies to take resources from your community, to use the bulk of those resources to feed bureaucrats, finally forcing your community to beg those bureaucrats to return a small portion of your community's resources to you and your community. I struggle to see the compassion in this system.
Libertarians recognize that real charity begins at home and that compassion cannot be outsourced. Libertarians would rather let you feed the hungry in your community with resources from your community, rather than forcing your community to feed hungry bureaucrats in hopes that they will throw you some scraps from what was yours to begin with.
