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Here are a few: For Grassley, his own home page where he said:

"In September I wrote the president to request additional LIHEAP funds to address what is likely to be a shortage in funding assistance this winter season for thousands of households."

Source: http://grassley.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=CapitolGains.Detail&CapitolGain_id=311&Year=2005

Also, Grassley said:

"Sen. Charles Grassley (news, bio, voting record), R-Iowa, said in a letter to API that the industry should devote part of its profits to a federal home heating assistance program. It was an ominous note since Grassley chairs the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee"

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ibd/20051210/bs_ibd_ibd/2005129general

Note: API = American Petroleum Institute

Bill Frist:

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said he would endorse a windfall tax on oil industry "if the facts warrant it"

Source: Same as above

"if the facts warrant it" . . . well, a lot of "facts" have warranted much other BS, like Frist's decision not to go nuclear over SCOTUS nominees.

If Frist were a true conservative and not a liberal, he would have rejected this Marxist view outright.

Santorum (from an op-ed he wrote at Townhall.com):

"Just as Katrina has seared American poverty into our moral consciousness, AIDS has seared Africa into our moral vision. Caring for the sick and dying in Africa now is morally right, as well as geopolitically prudent; if we don’t help, someone else will and that someone else may not be friendly to our interests. We need to embrace the challenge to dedicate a larger percentage of our GDP to foreign aid, . . ."

Source: http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/RickSantorum/2005/11/17/175882.html

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Senator Santorum (RINO-PA) wants to give/follow the UN guidelines and give a fixed % of our GDP to global charity.

Santorum:Just as Katrina has seared American poverty into our moral consciousness, AIDS has seared Africa into our moral vision. Caring for the sick and dying in Africa now is morally right, as well as geopolitically prudent; if we don’t help, someone else will and that someone else may not be friendly to our interests. We need to embrace the challenge to dedicate a larger percentage of our GDP to foreign aid,...

The U.S. has been giving foreign aide for many years. The giving of foreign aide has nothing to do with any U.N. guidelines and for the most part has nothing to do with the U.N. It has everything to do with making the world a safer place for the United States.

You misrepresent what Santorum says. You make it sound like Santorum wants the U.S. to contribute to some U.N. tithing scheme. Your cricism of Santorum is specious.

BTW, foreign aide as a percentage of GDP is at an all time low.

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Here are a few: For Grassley, his own home page where he said: "In September I wrote the president to request additional LIHEAP funds to address what is likely to be a shortage in funding assistance this winter season for thousands of households." Source: http://grassley.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=CapitolGains.Detail&CapitolGain_id=311&Year=2005 Also, Grassley said: "Sen. Charles Grassley (news, bio, voting record), R-Iowa, said in a letter to API that the industry should devote part of its profits to a federal home heating assistance program. It was an ominous note since Grassley chairs the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee"

A socialist policy, yes. But understand that Grassley is a politician, not a philosopher. It is clearly seen in these links that Grassley is bragging about his support of these things. Why does he do this??

Try looking at the voters of Iowa (similar to other states) to see where the problem is. Try looking at the voters across the country.