Yes, we can.

[Alex]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

Shouldn't we be concerned about others who have real needs? I am not suggesting everyone become Mother Teresa here, but it seems to me there are more important things than putting away for a college education, though that is not a bad thing at all.

I agree to an extent. But again, the nature of the income is significant to me. He had no way early on of being at all confident that the windfall would repeat itself year after year after year. For all he know those two or three years would be the high water mark of his life. That the window for getting himself established was short.

It isn't like he went to work for a law firm where he was earning $250,000/year and to keep the money rolling all he had to do was not get fired. He wrote a book. For all he knew that money would stop coming in after a couple years and no other book he wrote would ever get notice.

Plus, we don't know what else he was doing with his money that might be considered good charitable (though not tax deductible). Maybe nothing, maybe he was sending money to his grandmother in Kenya. I don't know. But not knowing isn't really grounds for jumping to the worst case conclusion. Unless that worst case conclusion fits in with the opinion you want to spin anyway. Just as jumping to the best case solution if you want to present him as Christ walking the earth again isn't warranted.



Besides, you're missing the appropriate conservative critique of this news (though you almost got it in your last post). But I don't want to do your work for you.