The more I ruminate on the silliness that is the Christianity is socialism meme the more I am aggravated by it.  The thing running through my head is this lie about capitalists not being charitable.  And, that in the face of all collectible statistics to the contrary, capitalists have no heart.  I don’t need to reiterate the numbers concerning charitable giving by conservatives as opposed to liberals.  Those numbers are well documented and undisputed and expose liberals for the skin flints they are.  What needs to be understood by those on the left is what any small business owner knows; there is no way he could be in business was it not for the charitable nature of people. I have often heard and read that it is the conservatives who don’t believe that people are good and it is the liberal who does.  It could not be more reverse.  No person takes the risk of opening a business without believing two things.  First that he has a product or service that serves a need.  Not a product or service that exploits or confines but something that people will choose to take advantage of if given the chance.  And, secondly, that people will give the benefit of the doubt to at least listen to the sales pitch.  That people will be charitable with their time and give to the business person the opportunity to do business with them and prove his worth.   This is by definition a charitable act and every small business owner knows it.  He or she not only knows it but more over he or she counts on it.  Whether it be the angel investor or the guy in his boxers in front of his computer shopping on line, that person offers a moment of his or her time to watch, read or listen and maybe consider purchasing.  It is the liberal who believes beyond all rationality that people need to be constrained by big government and guided, prodded, pulled or herded by force into what the bureaucrats decide are good decisions.  There is no greater example of the lack of faith in your fellow man than being a proponent of socialist progressive government intervention into the free market.   No society in the history of man has conscripted wealth to the uses of government and survived the hubris inherent in the act.  Even as recently as this last fiscal year the UK has shown that raising taxes on the wealthiest Brit’s created a drop in overall revenues to the treasury.  Still, our President ploughs on with the moral certitude of Caesar intent on saving the known world from itself. As a Christian I believe that Man is created in the Image of God and is inherently flawed but good.  I believe that left to make choices with free will that Men will decide on what is good and he does not need secular guidance from governmental lackeys serving the gods of reelection and personal power. Marx knew that socialism collapsed under the scrutiny of the religious and we as a people knew it too.  Lenin created a Godless state to preserve the power of government to do what is chose.  For our President to use scripture in an effort to promote a system of government that crushes free will is perverse.  And, anyone with a lick of common sense knows it.