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A review by barrysweezey
The Conservative Heart: How to Build a Fairer, Happier, and More Prosperous America by Arthur C. Brooks
According to Arthur Brooks:
That Americans don't trust conservatives to fight for struggling people is the result of a misunderstanding. Somehow conservatives aren't as good at liberals at showing they care. "Too often, the right has failed even to acknowledge the problems of poverty and inequality." I guess they care too darn much. Conservatives are happier than liberals. Conservatives give more to charity than liberals. Liberals are clueless. Liberals think that poor people can't take care of themselves and will require government assistance for the rest of their lives. Liberals don't understand economics. Liberals are materialists. Work is essential to human dignity. This point is so important that he makes it at least a dozen times. Liberals think of work as punishment.
Globalisation, free trade, property rights, rule of law, entrepreneurship are conservative principles, apparently not part of liberalism.
His prescriptions are generic: charter schools, making higher education less expensive, no minimum wage, expansion of the earned income tax credit, help people move to where the jobs are.
Of Obamacare: "We dislike the health law because it hurts people. It has caused millions to lose their doctors and their health plans. By shifting employer's incentives, it is stripping valuable work hours away from people who are already underemployed. It is raising premiums and deductibles of people who cannot afford to pay more.
His suggestions? Health Savings Accounts and association health plans. Conservatives may care, but this list seems to show that at least one conservative doesn't care enough to give it much thought.
That Americans don't trust conservatives to fight for struggling people is the result of a misunderstanding. Somehow conservatives aren't as good at liberals at showing they care. "Too often, the right has failed even to acknowledge the problems of poverty and inequality." I guess they care too darn much. Conservatives are happier than liberals. Conservatives give more to charity than liberals. Liberals are clueless. Liberals think that poor people can't take care of themselves and will require government assistance for the rest of their lives. Liberals don't understand economics. Liberals are materialists. Work is essential to human dignity. This point is so important that he makes it at least a dozen times. Liberals think of work as punishment.
Globalisation, free trade, property rights, rule of law, entrepreneurship are conservative principles, apparently not part of liberalism.
His prescriptions are generic: charter schools, making higher education less expensive, no minimum wage, expansion of the earned income tax credit, help people move to where the jobs are.
Of Obamacare: "We dislike the health law because it hurts people. It has caused millions to lose their doctors and their health plans. By shifting employer's incentives, it is stripping valuable work hours away from people who are already underemployed. It is raising premiums and deductibles of people who cannot afford to pay more.
His suggestions? Health Savings Accounts and association health plans. Conservatives may care, but this list seems to show that at least one conservative doesn't care enough to give it much thought.