Food, shelter, and healthcare for all? Over this Lib's dead body!

I was checking up on the local county newspaper, the Allegan News, as I normally do on Thursdays, when I discovered this letter to the editor...

The authors, Tom and Linda Clark, explain how a faith-based charity's setting up of a shelter in downtown Allegan (where they live) will harm Allegan's overall "prosperity." They claim that the idea of having those dirty, "near-homeless" men in a Christian shelter will damage economic transaction on the neighboring streets. ***Unlike with other hyperlinked material, I highly suggest you at least skim the brief note.***

You might be wondering about this Seeds of Grace organization? Well, it was started back in 2006 to specifically serve Allegan County's poor and downtrodden. Their "vision" is: "Food, Shelter and Healthcare for All. Our goal is simple and clear: to provide food, shelter and healthcare for residents of Allegan County who cannot afford these basic needs." The organization is entirely faith-based (501(c)(3)), involves a statement of faith for volunteers, and has a statement from former 88th Rep. Fulton Sheen displayed on the website.

So why would Tom Clark, a professed "Christian," oppose such an organization's work? I don't pretend to understand the way liberal minds work. That's right, he's a rather lib'ral Democrat that, throughout his campaign for state rep last year, spoke many times as to the need of health care insurance in the community.

Wait...I thought the liberals cared about the poor and the downtrodden in society....but having them on their streets? Eating in their diners? Walking on their sidewalks? Oh, that makes their towns "unsafe" for shoppers, of course, and will destroy some notion of "prosperity" for a town that, from what I've seen, is negatively isolated from economic cycles.

This all goes to illustrate an important point the Barry Goldwater made in The Conscience of a Conservative: liberals subordinate a man's entire being to their economic status. It's because these men will be "poor" (meaning that they've just hit a rough patch) that they need to be kept away from the well-off business owners and shoppers who, because they are "rich," are inherently good natured and law abiding. How absurd does that sound? It's bigoted and it's biased. It's hypocritical and just plain sad.

Tom Clark, like the rest of that Party, would use government to order us to carry the water and give it to the thirsty, but he and they never step down off of their own unladen horses to lift a glass and let the weak men drink. Also, Tom Clark, like the rest of that Party, cannot fathom the idea of allowing the weak man to hold the glass himself when his strength has returned; rather, they would install millions of tubes to pump the water into masses lying on their backs...

So what if a few ignorant shoppers (in this case, probably liberal like Mr. Clark) who have a "misunderstanding" about the poor decide to not troll down Locust street because a shelter is doing great things in the name of the Lord there? Goldwater stated that it is the Conservative that understands that men and women have a spiritual, emotional, and psychological side that is not subordinate whatsoever to economic condition and this situation is that principle, illustrated.

I'm not going to forget men and women who could freeze to death in favor of people who have always come and gone from a wonderful warm house, never having to know the winter wastes for what they really are...

Tom and Linda Clark conclude with a threat, "We will not do business with any organization or individual that supports or donates to Seeds of Grace to benefit this project and encourage others to make this same vow." So...have Tom and Linda Clark have now appointed themselves as leaders of an anti-American division of Allegan businessmen and women?

Anyway...I'm going to try to make some time to go down and help Seeds of Grace and I highly suggest you either do the same or make a monetary/material donation.