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You spend a lot of time trying to convince yourself that socialism is better than capitalism.

You spend a lot of time trying to convince yourself that our system of government doesn’t work.

You basicaly can’t make your arguments stick, we live here and you don’t.

Yep our northern neighbors are stingy. We also know that the Canadians aren’t happy that the American’s aren’t in the same condition they are in.

Spend your time with us, trying to convince yourself that the American’s need the Canadians help, through socialism- It must be difficult for all your work, to see your dreams of socialism for the USA fail-

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If one accepts stereotypes, Canadians are notoriously stingy, cheap tippers, and a nation founded on economic principles by a bunch of Scots — what more can I say. In a more serious vein, Canada has always been more statist relying first on paternalistic notions (peace order and good government is our founding motto) and later on social democratic ideals. Its one of many subtle cultural differnces.

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Who gives? Fraser report uncovers ‘generosity gap’

Manitobans donate the most to charity among Canadians; Canadians overall donate less to charity than Americans

Canadians tend to give less money to charity than Americans, creating a “generosity gap,” according to a report released Wednesday by the Fraser Institute.

The Vancouver-based think-tank’s 2006 Generosity Index used personal income tax return data to show that 30.4 per cent of American tax-filers donated to charity, while 25.4 per cent of Canadians did the same.

Even Manitoba, which led the provinces for the sixth year in a row with 28 per cent of tax filers making charitable donations, ranked in 27th place among all North American jurisdictions.

“If we gave the same percentage of aggragate income to charity as Americans did, our charitable sector would have about $9.2 billion in increased revenues to do their good works,” LeRoy said Wednesday.”

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2006/12/20/generosity.html

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The 80-year-old billionaire intends to leave his money to a charitable group founded by his father – sorry, Paris and Nicky.
By Jia Lynn Yang, writer-reporter

“NEW YORK (Fortune) — The Hilton family patriarch, Barron Hilton, will pass on the $1.2 billion windfall from the sale of Hilton Hotels Corporation – not to his famous progeny, but to his family’s philanthropic foundation, Fortune has learned.”

“Although Barron Hilton still acted as co-chairman of the company until the Blackstone sale, the company hasn’t been run by a Hilton since 1996, when Stephen Bollenbach stepped into the top role. The Hilton Foundation, with assets now of about $1.1 billion, directs more than 50% of its grants to international causes. Since 1990, for instance, it has committed $62 million to building clean sources of water in Africa. A devout Catholic, Conrad Hilton wrote in his will that the foundation’s directors should “shelter little children with the umbrella of your charity.”

http://money.cnn.com/2007/12/21/news/newsmakers/yang_hilton.fortune/

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Take that, self-satisfied liberals! A central trope in liberal political discourse is that conservatives are selfish guardians of their own wealth and privilege. But according to “Who Really Cares,” a new book by the Syracuse University public-policy specialist Arthur C. Brooks, it is liberals (especially the nonreligious sort), not conservatives, who are less likely to open their wallets to make charitable donations.
Consider two people, Brooks suggests in his book: One goes to church every week and believes it’s not the government’s job to reduce the amount of inequality in America. The other doesn’t attend church and believes the government must rectify economic injustice. Similar in every other way, which of these people gives more to charity?

The churchgoer, Brooks concludes, is twice as likely to give money. What’s more, she will give 100 times as much. And not just to her house of worship: She will give 50 times more to nonreligious charities, too. Brooks’s book is filled with statistics like these. It “really obliterates the stereotypes about who is philanthropic,” says Peter Schuck, a professor at Yale Law School, who read the book in manuscript.

If we want to improve America’s already impressive record of charitable giving — as much as $250 billion annually, including an average of $1,800 per family, a figure that dwarfs that of any other country — one important step would be “to work for cultural change on the secular left,” Brooks said last week at a forum on the book at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington.

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/12/10/who_gives/

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