Do you consider yourself Liberal or Conservative and......?

Liberal.

I volunteer at local soup kitchen 1 day a week, donate food and work at my local food pantry a couple of times a month, volunteer at the Humane Society, and donate time and materials for Habitat for Humanity.

I am a Liberal and I do not volunteer. And I have no problem with that whatsoever.

"Sacrificing" doesn't make someone more or less liberal. Liberalism stresses freedom and rights. With rights come responsibilities. I am not responsible for each individual in this country on a personal basis. What I do feel responsible for is ensuring that everyone has opportunity and are not forgotten.

So instead of working in a soup line, I'd rather get our educational system fixed so that more people can get a job. I'd rather make sure that people aren't oppressed and are free to express themselves.

Honestly, charity begins at home and I'm making sure that I'm taking care of those people first.

Liberal.

In 1996-1997 I volunteered in a Bolivian orphanage

In college I volunteered for a local community center and homeless shelter.

From 2002-2006 I was first a Peace Corps and then Americorps Volunteer.

Currently I volunteer with the Democratic party and Ronald McDonald House.

I consider myself to be unique. I don't identify with being a liberal or a conservative although I would rather choose being liberal than conservative if forced to chose. I'm not involved with charities, but I volunteer as being a docent for children at an art gallery. It's wonderful work teaching children especially about art.

I am neither liberal nor conservative, but libertarian. I am also a Christian.

I believe that it is not the responsibility of the government to be taking care of us, but for us to be taking care of each other.

The government's "job" is to protect its citizens from harm, and therefore should not be inflicting any.

Anyway, I do volunteer work, including tutoring, occasionally helping with a local animal shelter, and doing projects through my church.

I consider myself very liberal. I'm in high school and I volunteer at the local library, and at the closest hospital frequently. I volunteer at a whole bunch of fundraisers there, and I get nothing in return.

When you imply that the only people at your church group who volunteer are republican, have you have thought that maybe liberals wouldn't be volunteering with a church?

haha not to be stereotyping, but a lot of liberals don't like to get involved with church. It's more of a Republican thing...

I have lots of liberal friends who volunteer at animal shelters, hospitals, etc.

Being a good person has nothing to do with political position, it's just the right thing to do, regardless of what's going on in the world.

There are many studies out there that attest to the fact that conservatives indeed give more in both money and time to charitable organizations than do liberals.

A well know book on this entire subject is "Who really Gives" by Arthur Brooks who in fact confirms the preceeding.

However as many critics rightly point out one must look very carefully as the psychological motivation for all this .

The incredibly rich Scottisn Andrew Carnegie(of the library fame) is a perfect example of why conservatives give more time and money to charities.

The reason is simple QUILT.

Carnegie towards the end of his life reflected on how he made his money as a Robber Baron on the backs of the working class with many bof them dying in his mines and factories.

He made no secret of the profound QUILT that overcame him and his incredible philantrophy was simply to ATONE for his behaviors and get God's forgiveness.

While not all are as rich as Carneigie nor as quilty,many of those that give time and money to charity are giving to assuage their quilt period;not all of course but ,many.

If one corelates this with income/wealth in America where conservatives as a group are more wealthy than liberals ,this "quilt" factor becomes very relevant .

Liberals do "donate " their time,money and energies proportionately much more than do conservatives to other causes,organizations ( such as political demonstrations,all ecology organizations,human rights organizations,animal protection etc etc etc )that benefit society.

Anecdotally,I belong to two world wide human rights organizations and my local chapters are at least 80 % liberal and I am told this is fairly representative worldwide..

I'm a liberal - but fiscally conservative.

No - I don't currently participate in any volunteer programs, but I have in the past.

The reason is - like most liberals - I WORK for a living.

I do what I can, when I can.

I oppose unions in the public sector, I oppose organized religion in ALL sectors, I read books and I think for myself.

You tell me? What am I?

I'm a conservative and I don't volunteer for charity although I occasionally contribute to them financially. Perhaps it's because I'm an atheist that I'm not all that into charity.

By the way, just because people from church groups are sacrificing and helping the less fortunate, doesn't mean they aren't doing other things that are terribly destructive to our nation. Voting for George W. Bush, for example.

My friend you need to look up the real meaning to being a liberal, not just the literal meaning of the word.

A true liberal will always say the other is not adequate or abusive while doing the same thing. An example would be John Kerry said we need to get away form the big SUVs and go to more economic vehicles to get off of foreign oil. Yet his family owns several. When asked about this he said he doesn't own one they belong to the family. Well is he not a member of his family. And Good Ole Al Gorf. He says global warming is caused mainly by our insatiable need energy. Yet his power, gas and jet fuel bills are far greater than the average American.

So you see, being a liberal that is in the everyday spotlight means something far different than what you may thing being a liberal is. Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of greedy and hypocritical cons too. I think we should first use the term American before any party affiliation.