lol The people that want to dip into my pocket to pay for social justice are the ones that are self-serving. Let the House pass legislation to put the welfare genie back in the lamp and then watch the Senate squirm and foam and fulminate. Let the President veto it. Let it all go on the record. Then we'll see what happens in 2012.
Your perspective is basically correct. But, do you think today's "conservatives" are not self-serving??? (Me thinks we are defining "self-serving" from two different perspectives.)
I notice all the house members and senators we send to washington from my state seem to become wealthy while in office. Yes, they are all self-serving in the literal sense that they are getting rich.