Goodness, that observation "triggers" you? And you truly believe Libs are the ones that make charity things "work"? Well, I'll have to get back to you about that one.
Well, since what we say here is anonymous, I'm not really blowing my own horn can feel safe giving you a little of my "legacy":
* I spent some 20 years of (unpaid) teaching Am. Red Cross programs in First Aid, CPR, Aquatic Lifesaving. (I also served 2 1/2 years as a local ARC Chapter chairman). Those tasks took a LOT of my "free" time.
* When I was younger, tuffer and dummer, I spent 9 years as a volunteer Fire/Rescue EMT team member in the Smoky Mountains of N.C. (mostly patching up the remains of auto accidents); But it included some (very) dangerous SCUBA searching for aquatic casualties (I found two drowning victims); long, steep mountain searches and rescue of lost and injured folk (some of it on rock faces several hundreds of feet above a nice landing place and I once dove in the white water river in "Deliverance"). I've spent a few long, thunder stormy nights in cold, waist deep water finding and getting stranded people (and a few cows) out of flash floods and then provided a couple of families home shelter and food until the waters subsided; I was a Cub Scout pack leader for two years; I've given more than 3 gallons of blood and a good bit of plasma to the ARC (until I had a deadly heart attack and must take medicines that preclude me as a donor).
If you count such things, I was an NRA Instructor for Firearms Safety and Rifle & Pistol Marksmanship in Titusville, FL, for a couple of years.
I was a Sunday School and teen programs teacher for about 8 years.
We've served as foster parents to four children who really needed help; one stayed with us for three years. We've never been financally secure but we didn't get a dime of assistance from anyone for those kids.
I've helped building handicap ramps; repairing handrails, roofs, floors, steps, plumbing and electrical problems for injured, indigent or elderly people who couldn't do it themselves.
I've worked some long, hard days with several ad hoc response teams obtaining, preparing and handling out food for the indigent. And, to get back to you about this, yes, we did have several Liberal "helpers" show up (we can usually spot them by their cars rash of PC bumper stickers). Libs typically come late (at least well after the drugework of setting up is done), they usually grab front line serving jobs (for the local "news" photo ops?), and they tend to disappear as soon as clean-up starts ... but, you're right, I have seen libs participate in "soup kitchens" ... a little, and Libs do talk a great deal about helping. But, down where the hard, unseen labor of helping people actually hits the road ... as a group, libs really aren't worth much; especially in the long haul!
Okay, you asked and that's more than enough about my years of public service legacy; now tell us yours! Do you like to be up front making it all work by bravely handling hot ladles, etc., in soup kitchens?