"Love your neighbor as yourself is three thousand years old; do you have a better one than that?"

When the Left apply this to their politics ... er, that's a misstatement right there. They apply their politics to their religion. When they apply what they already presuppose to their religion, they come up with, "The government needs to take your income from you and give it to your neighbor."

It usually doesn't apply to their own income. They shelter that from taxation and hang onto it, and what money they do give away goes most often to sociopolitical causes like Amnesty International or PETA. It's left to the conservatives to give to personal aid like the church food and clothing cupboard or Chrysalis.

By the way, they don't need a better moral statement. They'll quote lines from the Bible just as happily as if they understood what those lines really meant and as if they themselves actually believed them. "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you," drops from their lips constantly. Of course they mean "support welfare programs" when we conservatives, if we were in our neighbor's shoes, would rather that people teach us how to fish than just throw a pound of fish at us after some sixteen bureaucrats had handled it first.

And we would say we had done more good teaching our neighbor than liberals had done throwing the fish around.