Very good points. I believe she was an atheist, which might explain that. I think if you could "jack her philosophy up" and slide Christianity underneath it, you would really have something.
I agree, Christianity, IMO, is very compatable with her basic philosphy. After all, you can't direct your resources to help others if the state steals most of it first and also removes most individuals responsibility (In their minds) to right the wrongs of society personally if/when the govt has supposedly taken on that moral task for us all already.
And, we all know the govt has only a fraction of our tax money get to the real underlying social problems (with huge bureaucracies, waste, fraud, corruption, pork barrel and dependence creating rules all draining it) while private charities are generally much more efficient tackling them. But, we can't hardly excercise our Christianity and support charities as we might with the high taxation and drain on the general economy created by the govt funding programs that are wasteful and unconstitutional, too.
I'd like to see the Federal Govt reach reduced to #1) - Protecting our borders, and #2) - Assuring a sound legal system for criminal and business contract law. Period. That would get rid of most of the lobbies and campaign funding abuses overnight, too, with little left to buy and influence politicians for. Current social programs, like Social Security, would have to be phased out gradually to where charitable organizations had some time to get up to speed filling the legitimate void remaining.
Too bad the majority of our fellow citizens are hooked onto the govt tit, we'll likely have to endure the US govt and ourselves all going broke first, and with the collapse of the $, before we'd ever have a shot at reclaiming the original intent of the Founding Fathers. I'm not optimistic we've got enough fellow voting Americans free of the govt spigot left anymore to steer this bus away from that cliffs edge.
-Shane