Partisan buzz peaked recently when a wide range, long term study surfaced in the form of a book by Syracuse University Professor Arthur Brooks proving that the politically conservative were far more charitable than their friends on left. Because the left typically makes themselves out to be benevolent heroes of the poor, this was telling news. An old saying--people won’t believe what you say, they’ll believe what you do—had been ignored prior to this provocative data.

Citizens nationwide blindly accepted the liberal love propaganda, going so far as to key them, “the bleeding hearts.” What is more empathetically picturesque than that? In the meantime, conservatives unjustly became “cold-hearted.” In the midst of deception, an inconvenient study brought truth to light.

The difference between liberals and conservatives is monumental: Conservatives act, Liberals feel. Only one of those verbs matters to those in need. Typically, small, lower-income towns are conservative, while bigger, high-come cities are liberal. Author John Stossel compiled a test for this idea and reports that, “Even though people in Sioux Falls make, on average, half as much money as people in San Francisco, and even though the San Francisco location was much busier -- three times as many people were within reach of the bucket -- by the end of the second day, the Sioux Falls bucket held twice as much money.”

Free market principles and local government control restored to the citizens ensures less talk and more action. When big government becomes everyone’s financial planner, masking as lenders of justice, personal responsibility diminishes and we lose a critical freedom to choose. And that kind of satisfaction is priceless. The truth is, according to the late economist Milton Freidman, “Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own.”

Talk really is cheap and, “Blue State America spends a lot of time talking about how much more caring and enlightened it is. But that’s with someone else’s money…,” wrote Jonah Goldberg in his January 4 column.

Words take abuse in this faux as well--justice, equality, diversity, fairness, and opportunity have lost immense significance thanks to liberal distortion. They’re used to eliminate the merits of personal achievement, pride, and success. Yet, these principles cushion the prosperity of our history and our future. Author and columnist Thomas Sowell writes that, “Lofty talk about ‘social justice’ or ‘fairness’ boils down to greatly expanded powers for politicians, since those pretty words have no concrete definition. They are a blank check for creating disparities in power that dwarf disparities in income -- and are far more dangerous.”

Liberals disfigure word connotation, coaxing even freedom and justice into magnetic opposites in their secular meanings. The ultimate idea of social “justice” eradicates the basis of personal freedoms to choose things like where to put your paycheck. Goldberg writes that, “a “just” society is [now] one where, because the state helps everyone, people aren’t obliged to help anyone.”

That justice also condemns judgment, making morality relative and no one subject to substantial criticism. Dinesh D’Souza writes, “the liberal promotion of autonomy, individuality, and self-fulfillment as moral ideals make it impossible to question or criticize or place limits on…cultural trends.”

The liberal trend of a stingy pocketbook should certainly be questioned in light of the deceitful media spin that said otherwise. Keep taxes low, as the more generous Republicans advocate, and everyone can put their money where their mouth is. Though government is trying to redeem itself now from the gluttonous pork-barrel spending that abused our tax dollars, it goes to show you what can happen no matter what party is in charge.

Conservative citizens have the right idea and they demonstrate their reliability to give considerably even if the government isn’t there to shelter the poor with limitless federal programs and nameless tax dollars. Neal Boortz blogs that, “For many Democrats the way to correct income disparity is to punish those who do well in order to gain the affections of those who are satisfied with mediocrity.”

Obligatory charity through taxes creates a society of helplessness. The American dream becomes a spirit of universal contentment instead of individual triumph. A place where the best no longer exists because government says we all must have level playing grounds. The sweetness of victory is dulled due to progressive cynics who question all facets of fairness and challenge the very morality of competition in the first place. Fairness is an overused virtue that stifles ambition. Time spent debating the legalities of fairness wastes passion that can easily bypass the restraints of limitation.

My point is, stop talking, and like Nike, Just Do It.