Liberals have more compassion than conservatives.

My opponent claims that "liberals are the ones who provide welfare for the poor". I will now once again reiterate my main point on this issue as I did in Round 2. Yes, liberals do tend to make more socioeconomic policies that tend to make social welfare programs which have the intent of redistributing wealth to the poor from the middle and upper social classes. Sure it sounds nice mailing a poor person a check each month, but does that necessarily show compassion? I will agree that we need a social safety net without a doubt because even successful people lose their jobs sometimes and need help to get back on track. This safety net should be designed to catch you when you fall, not to capture you and hold you captive. The conservative economic agenda shows compassion not by what it necessarily does directly but by what it does indirectly: create an economic environment that makes it easier and possible to find a well paying jobs with rising incomes. Jobs that would be able to provide the poor with incomes so that they wouldn't need welfare at all. Yes, conservatives do want to get rid of the food stamps program entirely but not by cutting a single dime from the program but by helping the 47 million people who depend on the program to reach a level of self sustainability so they don't need government assistance to survive. That shows more compassion than to pump billions of dollars more each year into social welfare programs, which liberals seem to want to do. Creating more social welfare programs will lead to more debt, which will cause income tax levels to rise, leading to an economy that grows slower and slower which puts millions of people at risk of losing their jobs if the inefficient debt burden economy were to crash. Now where is the compassion in that consequence? My opponent stated again that "liberals are the ones who support gay rights". I addressed this in round 2 as well and used an objective quantitative survey which shows that you can't generalize this issue to the entire conservative population anymore. The proportion of the conservative population that opposes gay marriage is shrinking rapidly and is already a minority. Conservatives overall do support gay marriage. It is only a small group of ultra religious conservatives that do not. My opponent also stated that "liberals are the ones who support the rights of children." And conservatives don't support children's rights? Unless my opponent can provide additional support or evidence to this statement, it is completely flawed. And if my opponent is trying to refer to a statement he/she made earlier about conservatives hitting children then that is also completely flawed because liberals also hit children. Many Hispanic and black parents tend to spank their children yet they identify themselves to be liberal. My opponent's claim that liberals oppose torture is vague and needs to be elaborated upon. What torture? Torturing prisoners of war? Torturing people in general? If my opponent is referring to the torture of prisoners of war I respond with this: Torturing prisoners of war, especially captured terrorists, is a necessity and a clear example of showing compassion. Let's say we captured a terrorist that knows when and where a huge terrorist attack will occur in the future which has the potential to kill thousands of innocent people, similar to a 9-11 scale terrorist attack. The CIA knows this attack is planned and will happen soon but they don't know any further information, yet now they have captured a guy that knows every detail about it, but he refuses to talk. So the only way to get the information out of him is to torture him. Eventually he will break and disclose the information that the government can use to stop the attack from happening. So once again I ask you: what shows compassion, torturing a prisoner and saving thousands of innocent lives or letting the prisoner live the good life in his cell then going home one evening to see thousands of people dead when you turn on the TV? My opponent also says that liberals oppose war but in reality, unless you are an ISIS member or Kim Jong Un, who actually supports war? No one really wants war. No one is in favor of war. So I don't really understand what my opponent means by this statement and I don't understand how it shows that liberals show more compassion then liberals. If my opponent thinks that conservatives start wars then I beg the contrary. Woodrow Wilson, a liberal, declared war on Germany in 1917 and led America into the second deadliest war in human history. Franklin Roosevelt, another liberal, declared war on Japan which caused Germany to declare war on America, ultimately leading America into the deadliest war man has ever seen. Truman, also a liberal, ordered not one but two atomic bombs to be dropped on Japan. John F Kennedy, yet another liberal, attempted to invade Cuba for no real reason. Lyndon B Johnson, another liberal, supported the vietnam war. So this is yet another flawed statement. I would also like to let my opponent know that I would still like to see the evidence and news sources he/she has that shows that conservatives favor gun control just for black people and about that black woman who tried to use stand your ground laws. I would also like to see how conservatives oppose healthcare rights.