They believed in charity...not taxation at gunpoint to redistribute wealth...
Funny how you seem to know so little, yet claim to know so much.
http://www.theatlantic.com/national...in-franklin-have-to-do-with-obamacare/280735/
In 1751, Pennsylvania statesman Benjamin Franklin (“the uber-Founding Father”) conspired with Philadelphia surgeon Thomas Bond to found the nation’s first public hospital, envisioning that it would provide free health care to the city’s “sick-poor” and even “diseased foreigners.”
The colony’s taxpayers would foot the bill, but it would be to their benefit in the long run because making city-dwellers healthier could reduce poverty and prevent epidemics, and doctors could put experience gained in an urban hospital setting to use treating rural patients. Bond had seen the concept in action in Europe, where he had completed his medical training, and he convinced Franklin that it could work as well in Pennsylvania. Here’s how Sullivan described the negotiations that followed:
Franklin said to the Assembly, You have to build it.
The Assembly said, No, you must do it with private donations. You can't tax people in the country to pay for a city hospital.
Franklin said, That won't work, it will never be enough, good health care costs a lot of money, remembering "the distant parts of this province" in which "assistance cannot be procured, but at an expense that neither [the sick-poor] nor their townships can afford." …
The Assembly said, The people will never support it.
Franklin knew the majority of them already did. He knew the people.
He said to the Assembly, Here's the idea. If I and my associates can raise such-and-such an amount of money (an enormous sum for the time), you will match it, and the project moves forward.
The Assembly said, Sure! They knew Franklin could never get the funds. This way they looked generous, at no expense.
Franklin went out and quickly raised a good deal more even than the sum he'd named. He used the slightly competitive nature of the matching-funds plan to ratchet up giving. The people had been ready. The Assembly, to which he would soon be elected, and its powerful landed interests had been screwed. Franklin later said he never felt less guilty about an act of deception in his life."
More examples are available if you have a mind to get your head out of your ass, and look for them.
You really are oblivious to the real world aren't you?...Socialism in its various forms is responsible for more than 1oo million deaths in the past century...not counting the present holocaust resulting from abortion laws...another socialist idea.... Hardly the caring philosophy you claim it to be.
Again the fool speaks out of his ass. First off, I do not support abortions, never have, never will. However, until Dominionists like you take control we will still have a secular society, and they will determine what is legal, or illegal.
Then too, I notice how you use the term "socialism in its various forms" instead of referring to Communinism, or Nazism. Chrisitianity, in its "various forms" has killed even more then your definition of "socialism".
As to what the difference between classical liberalism and modern conservatism...I would be delighted to live in a nation that strictly adhered to the letter of the constitution...I doubt that you could say the same as all social welfare programs would disappear in a flash. The constitution, as written is a conservative's dream...and I doubt that you could find any true conservatives who would not love to live under a tiny government following the constitution to the letter....marxists such as yourself however would hate it...ergo the idea of a "living" constitution.
Actually, I believe in a strict interpretation of the Constitution, not the perverted version "conservatives: like you support. Having already explained how the General Welfare clause was used to promote various forms of welfare, how about the Second Amendment? Explain how the Second supports an individuals right to own a gun, yet does not support the formation of a Militia over a permanent standing military which the Founders hated? The too, where is the Declaration of War at for Iraq, or even ISIS? Then too, where is is the confirmation of a Justice to replace Scalia? ALL of this is being blocked by the Party you cling to, and claims to be "conservative".