Liberal guilt is what led to a welfare system where poor, uneducated women were paid to have fatherless children and poor men were encouraged to abandon their children. It is all fine and dandy to want high taxes to fund these 'compassionate' programs when you are incredibly wealthy. When you are working poor, paying taxes for these programs means eating ramen noodles so that the deadbeat next door can order pizza. When you are middle class, paying taxes for these programs means that you can't save for your kids college.

It is all fine and dandy to have 'compassion' for the criminals when you live in a posh neighborhood. You don't have to live with them. But it is the poor people, the folks that liberals claim to have compassion for, that pay a terrible price when the police are undermined and the courts let violent criminals go with a slap on the wrist.

One of the reasons my pizza eating neighbor lived the way she did was because some liberal judge gave the man who raped her at 13 a pathetic 18 month sentence. The rapist came back from jail and told everyone that she had begged for sex. The liberal welfare system gave her everything she wanted so she had no motivation to better herself. And the liberal social workers wouldn't take away her daughter even though she was leaving the child alone with a parade of homeless bums and there was a loving set of grandparents who could have given the child a better home. I will be very suprised if that child makes it to the ripe old age of 13 before she is raped.