Christmas is that bizarre time of the year when politicians decide to pay occasional lip service to the Prince of Peace without pausing their perpetual wars against the innocent at home and abroad. The Republicans preach "traditional values" and fiscal responsibility while demanding more power to regulate and control. The Democrats preach "compassion" and assert their concern for the underprivileged by demanding more power to tax and spend. It's all just an ugly mess of political pageantry.
Jesus preached love and charity. He did not preach being a busybody control freak who robs their neighbor and threatens dissenters. We need decentralized, voluntary grassroots organization, not centralized mandates. There is no compassion in the latter. Jesus didn't say, "elect someone," or "let the Romans do it," He said to do what needs to be done directly. This requires effort and wisdom. It isn't easy. The narrow gate never is. The zero-sum game of politics looks like a quick and easy solution, but it is neither quick, nor easy, nor a solution. The wide gate of politics is not a substitute.
You know a tree by its fruit, and the Fruit of the State is the inverse of the Fruit of the Spirit. You cannot love your neighbor while you ask jackbooted thugs to stomp his neck until he submits to your whims. The State feared Jesus 2,000 years ago. Satan tempted Jesus in the desert with political power. Jesus is anti-State, and the State is anti-Christ.
I know those who profess to be compassionate will object, but while people do certainly need many things, they do not have the right to compel others to provide them. We need to promote a voluntary society in order to fill those needs. Nothing that requires the labor of others is a basic human right. To say otherwise is to advocate slavery. To impose otherwise by political fiat is tyranny. But to advise the faithful to be charitable is holy.
Who do you really serve this Christmas, the Prince of Peace, or the Prince of Lies?
Politicians dont give a F*** about Peace and religious celebration. Only when they hold elections are they interested about the folk.
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Actually, many Republicans preach "traditional values" and fiscal responsibility by proposing less power and less control. True Free markets by downsizing the size and cost of the government that is stifiling the economy. I will be releasing some articles that will help people understand the true source of widening wealth gap. The mainstream media has completely brainwashed the general population and distracted us from the true crime. How central banking and inflation benefit the rich and make the middle class and poor even poorer.
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I have seen a lot of preaching, but very little practical legislating, toward the proclaimed goal of smaller government and fiscal responsibility. Ron Paul, Justin Amash, and a handful of others have been vocal but still largely ineffectual exceptions to the rule.
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That's because the general population will never understand complex concepts and how monetary policy is the root cause of the disparity. Whats important is to learn the truth and the reality instead of fantasizing of a utopia. Ron Paul knew from the beginning that he'd never win, his goal was to inform as many people as he could of the Truth.
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The truth is that we cannot afford the State. The Utopian fantasy is the belief that government can be benevolent.
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Jesus actually compelled the rich to give their riches to the poor, sounds like a real bugger to me! I want to keep all my food and watch the hungry folks starve for entertainment! Back me up, bro.
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Indeed He did. But he did not say to take from the rich, or beg Rome to do it. That is the distinction between society and politics. There is no righteousness in jealousy or hatred.
While one can certainly criticize the political concentration of wealth, as I often do, it is nonsense to denounce wealth as evidence of greed in and of itself. It is saving and investment that built the economy we have today, and allow people to be charitable on a level previously impossible. There is nothing inherently abusive in such actions, but you are blinded by your ideology, and in turn accuse people of selfishness and greed in order to create the illusion that you hold a moral high ground while advocating the very political plunder that creates systemic injustice. You think it can be reformed. It can't.
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Let me ask you this, did Bill Gates earn his money? Oh wait, I already asked you that and you didn't have a coherent answer lmao.
It's almost like you live in a fantasy world.
http://www.foodaidfoundation.org/world-hunger-statistics.html
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I did have an answer. You just didn't like it because it requires more than a simple yes/no answer in an economy polluted with corporate cronyism and regulatory capture.
Your hunger statistics are simple statements, and I'll assume for the sake of argument that they are accurate. However, the fact that problems exist is not evidence that your solutions are correct. If hunger concerns you, you should be promoting free markets and trade. It may sound mercenary to you, but people who have no food want food. People who can produce food want to sell it. Food production and transportation have costs and risks. Profit is the reward for serving needs, and offers an incentive to producers for bearing those costs and risks. It's a decentralized grassroots mechanism requiring no planners or programs. Governments actively intervene in food production and transportation when markets are eager to serve, and destroy the economies of these impoverished nations. We have known for decades that misguided charity stifles local economies and prevents the growth of regional economic self-sufficiency in agriculture.
Your solution seems to be the system that intentionally starved Ukranians by the millions. My solution is the system that is so productive despite political intervention and corporate manipulation that obesity is an epidemic in America.
It's almost like you live in a fantasy world.
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So you think throwing out food from fast food places and supermarkets into dumpsters is only a thing because of "lack of free trade"?
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Primarily, yes. Government regulations often explicitly prohibit the distribution of food that is deemed "waste." Do you think hunger is a thing simply because restaurants and grocery stores throw away food that doesn't sell? What fundamental economic system do you think makes this reliable food surplus possible in the first place?
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Yeah, it's not as if grocery stores and restaurants are throwing out food in some conspiracy to starve the poor. They throw it out because any alternative is difficult or impossible because of federal, state and local regulations.
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The federal government actually is less involved than the corporate government in these situations.
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Having been inside managerial places, it's not because of "free trade" or "government". It's because the corporations force them to because they don't want "free-loaders" (homeless people) "taking advantage of them".
The federal government, on the other hand, could pass a law that demands food surplus be sent to those who need it, though.
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Laws vary from state to state in the US and from country to country, but it's not like my argument is made up. The US is very litigious, and businesses can't afford the risk of lawsuits. They rely on byzantine laws as interpreted by many layers of bureaucrats and lawyers. They err on the side of not being destroyed by lawsuits.
The federal government can pass all manner of laws, but their focus is primarily on gaining and entrenching more power, not actually caring for people. And if they did pass such a law, I guarantee it would become an expensive burden, not a blessing, because governments have no measurement tool against which they can balance their opinions. They pay no penalty for being wrong. They always claim virtue regardless of the unintended consequences.
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