You said it well.
Now, the leaders aren't going to starve. Most people realize that. It would be the common people, the peasants, the poor.
And your attitude is the typical conservative attitude. The hell with the poor, the disenfranchised, the common.
Wherever they are. Whatever they need. Food, drugs, medical care, housing. "Let 'em starve!!"
You are succinct, even eloquent. "Compassionate" conservativism means shovelling money to the wealthy.
Such "compassion".
Arf