By choosing this battleground, they once again place themselves in a triumphant position, as government is least effective when it comes to psychological issues. Government can force us to salute flags, but it cannot make us patriotic. It can make people work, but it cannot make them want to work. What this approach ignores is that there are children in this country who are physically hungry. The question of who deserves what is actually rather foreign to the concept of compassion.
Compassion is an urge to suffer with another, to help.
And this attitude is ultimately based on nothing more than irrational double standards. Given they may both have made bad choices. Differences in mandatory sentencing standards between those convicted of possessing crack cocaine and powdered cocaine are among our society's most blinding examples of this. Opponents of government efforts to aid the poor, especially poor children, ought to lay their cards on the table. Olasky never says.