GREG GUTFELD on the difference between charity and government: "It a war between the private choices of the individual and those who know better in thee government. One embraces charity; the other, coercion.... One works, the other shirks."

Andrea Tantaros had an insightful observation that government is the liberals' charity; they prefer to give our money than their own.

And Dana Perino made note of something that I think deserves more attention: that is, that private charity is more efficient because the giver is more directly invested in the efficacy of the gift. Since it's my hard-earned money I've giving away, I've got a vested interest is seeing that it's spent well and wisely. The government, not so much....