Why Scrooge was a Liberal

I believe Ann Coulter had it right, Scrooge was a liberal (click here to read Ann's article from last year's Human Events Webpage). Here's why:

In the beginning, Scrooge sites several government institutions to provide for the poor, as Liberals do today. He finds this as the appropriate method of providing care for those in need, despite the identifier that they are failed institutions. Why else would he talk so highly of these failed institutions, just as Big Government Liberals do for programs like Welfare and other government entitlements.

Now, to be honest, Scrooge isn't a liberal throughout the story. But it should be noted that what brought Scrooge around wasn't some fact finding commission, nor was it some government program that incentivized him to give charitably. No, it was GOD! It had to be God, unless there's some other entity out there that is direct ghosts. I do not think it was anyone from the Hindu belief, they would not have been sent to walk the Earth, instead they would have been reincarnated to a lesser form. Nor Shintoism because ancestors are venerated, not forced to walk the Earth in chains. No, I'm convinced it had to be God.

So how can we identify that Scrooge became a conservative? Well of course, he became one when he started to give. Notice here, that he did NOT give to the government programs to make them better. No instead, he went on a mission of personal charity giving. He didn't toss the coin out of his bedroom window to give to some government institution to get some food for the family. No, instead he bought food to give to his employee. The big turkey that came to Cratchit's house was not from a government meat program, but from the local butcher - who by the way - didn't poison any of the children who ate it.

So, next time you Conservatives get called Scrooge by some Big Government Liberal feel free to throw this argument at them and watch them 'Wallow in their pudding' - As Scrooge would say.

'nuff said.