The other day I was working at the information desk with a reference librarian. She asked where I did my undergrad, and when I said BYU she asked if I'd ("what's it called? I can't remember the right terminology") served a mission, explaining that she was from Idaho Falls so she had a friend who was Mormon. Later on, she asked about my career goals, and I said that I was interested in the idea of working in an academic library, but my socialistic tendencies pushed me in the direction of the public library. She laughed and said that she'd never heard someone "who's done a mission" talk about his socialistic tendencies. Her Mormon friend, apparently, was rather conservative. (Imagine that.)
We all do missionary work in our own way.
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Actually, I think that we are all more socialistic than we usually admit - beacuse the minute we speak of the wonderful socialistic tendencies we have, some liberal increases our taxes to force us to be more socialistic.
I vote for people with values so I can afford to vote for policies and programs which do something for people and also so I have some money left over to do things for people close to home. Yes, we gave money to one of our children affected by Katrina to fix their house. Yes, we gave money to a newly-jobbed child so they could improve their new home. The government was not there to help in either case and demonstrates over and over its incompetence in real caring.
To the lady in the library, one of the great "conservative" values is caring about people; unfortunately, there are those who use government "giving" as a way of buying votes (on both sides of the aisle I profess).
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