GIVING? THAT'S THE GOVERNMENT'S JOB NOW!

Please, please throw the thieving thugs out of congress and give Santa his job back!

“Generosity is morally virtuous because we are essentially social beings with the prospect of intimate relationships enhancing our lives, and because we can ennoble ourselves by supporting others. Yet if generous behavior were not freely chosen, but instead coerced by law, its moral import would vanish; it would amount to regimented conduct, something for which moral credit cannot be due, especially to the regimented. It would cease to be generous.” -Machan (Generosity: Virtue in Civil Society)

"There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as caring and sensitive because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he is willing to do good with other people's money. Well, who isn't? And a voter who takes pride in supporting such programs is telling us that he will do good with his own money— if a gun is held to his head. "
— P.J. O'Rourke (Why I Am A Conservative)

(BTW, the government won't be giving anyone these books, so they can still be gifts from the heart!)