More Republican Compassion

My brother has insisted that the liberals and Democrats are heartless and uncaring and conversely that Republicans or conservatives are compassionate, caring and serve the best interest of all Americans.
I was interested in how he came to this opinion and if there were any examples of republicans doing anything to promote a compassionate agenda.
What I see is tax breaks for the top 1%, budget cuts for the social programs, education funding cut, and billions of taxpayer money going to Halliburton and subsidiaries. Not to mention unprecedented military spending on a new war that we can't win. Arrogance and selfish pride about our country. Our President has shown a remarkable unwillingness to see more than two sides to any issue.

So if we re-phrase Stew's position to "the conservatives are the ones who care about Americans as long as they work for Halliburton or on of their spinoff companies and those lousy Democrats only want to waste the taxes on poor people forcing them to be dependent and servile forever" then we get closer to something that makes sense to me.

Social programs, public education, assisted housing, and healthcare are issues that conservatives hate. How is it compassionate to deny a level playing field?

Who has grown up homeless?

Stew was homeless for a brief period when he was 18. Remember that? You relied on another family for compassion and depended on someone else to care about you.
If you had been forced to live under a bridge with a dirty blanket and a cardboard box would you have been able to land any job?

I doubt it.

Now don't get me wrong. People still have to be able to rise above adversity and struggle to make their lives better. So I am not calling for a free ride. All I am saying is that there are a lot of things that happen to us. Sometimes we get slammed hard.
It isn't drugs or drinking that did it. It isn't a lack of work ethic. It is just circumstance.
People born into a bad circumstance didn't ask to be poor. Why shouldn't the best country in the world have the ability to care and help these people have at least a chance to fail because they are lazy or addicted etc..? For every one loser I'm sure there are ten people who would work hard and try to make their world a better place.
It is easy to be wealthy and look down on the poor and say "Oh they are just lazy. I had to work for everything I have. I never got a handout..." but when you really look at your life, did you start out at the same place? Did you momma get a private room or were you born in a free clinic?
Try being poor and having a legacy of nothing vs. a legacy of the middle class and see how undeserving of a chance you think you are.