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While I respect and support the idea of responsible government spending, I don't believe small government is right the answer to our situation. Adopting a small government in an age where the corporation is growing to transnational heights is reckless. Even today, globalization has made corporations responsible, in many instances, for representing the US foreign policy, often with results being human rights violations. Instead of terrorist attacks by religious fanatics, we'll get terrorist attacks from freedom fighting nationals who construe the corporation for the nation.
Also the idea of an absolutely free market that is somehow independent of social realities is a myth. For there to be a truly free market, the government should do its part in leveling the starting field for a free market to be the equally beneficial system that it is designed to be instead of the continuing exploitation of social inequalities that it is. |
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Once this whole recession thing is over, I guarantee that "free markets" will be ooh'd and aah'd over again, even though its been proved by recent events that it simply does not work. Bah.
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Most people who believe in a modern free market are typically raised well off and assume that those who are poor are so because they entered the market as middle wage individuals but through laziness or incompetence fell into debt (i.e. its their ass). But poverty is in the majority of cases inherited. To that they say "pick yourself up by your bootstraps" when they themselves never had to. And of course they are often conveniently narrow sighted about how the government help and taxer payer dollars has helped them in say their education or even, suppose, how their family originally came into money through the New Deal. The only time a market is free is when the equally players involved enough to be able to set a balanced competition so that there is no favoritism within the system but we don't have that and that leads to recessions.
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Can someone tell me how to knock some sense into the girl who thinks Jesus would be a Republican because the Bible doesn't say that the government should be responsible for helping the poor?
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OBVIOUSLY the difference between France and Switzerland and Russia and China is fascism. Additionally, she doesn't seem to understand how socialism and democracy are apples and oranges, one being an economic system, the other a form of representative government. BLAH BLAH BLAH, I get tired of arguing with her.
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Jesus would vote for Reagan
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jesus would have loved sonic youth.
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he probably would jump up on stage just to touch Lee whenever he plays Eric's Trip, and then never wash that hand again. and then he'd be all : "see this Lee Ranaldo guy? yeah, i made him"
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Burnin' eyes seek jesus comin Jesus comes to pave the way
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16 And behold, one came up to him, saying, "Teacher, what good deed must I do, to have eternal life?" 17 And he said to him, "Why do you ask me about what is good? One there is who is good. If you would enter life, keep the commandments." 18 He said to him, "Which?" And Jesus said,"You shall not kill, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness. 19 Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself." 20 The young man said to him, "All these I have observed; what do I still lack?" 21 Jesus said to him, "If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me." 22 When the young man heard this he went away sorrowful; for he had great possessions. 23 And Jesus said to his disciples, "Truly, I say to you, it will be hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. This passage is also present in Mark 10:17-27 and Luke 18:18-27. There are more instances. She evidently has read the Bible if she believes that Christians should be responsible for the poor. |
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Both are false analogies. EDIT: also I don't believe Jesus would be a socialist considering Matthew 22:21 "Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s" Jesus is apolitical, if not anarchistic. For Jesus, following the word of God faithfully would make irrelevant the need of following the wor of men. |
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I dunno, the story of Jesus has been rewritten several times by powerful empires for their own ends (continues today i.e., Dominionists), the truth may be he was part of some radical spiritual revolutionaries against the Romans, and had to flee into the desert. Everyone around Jesus was Hebrew, including Jesus, but somehow the Romans were able to pervert the story so that it was all the Jews fault, and not in fact the Romans who nailed him up - and they're so clever the romans, who nailed jesus and killed him, now are the spiritual leaders/enforcers of christianity. |
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At this point in time you have to accept the truth as it is contained and preserved, because outside of the Bible, Jesus does not exist. the handful of extra-biblical historical sources are perhaps even more open to corrupt than the bible, because unlike gospel accounts which have been very accuratley preserved and proven so under immense scrutiny, writings by Josephus and Thallus and Tactis and even the mention in the Talmud of Jesus are less accepted as historical fact and are more open to have been altered, especially by those who have an agenda to add "proof" to faith, something which is impossible. Jesus is a character of faith, and as a historical figure is virtually possible to identify truly. This is why he became a religion and not socio-political movement, as it is a declaration of faith, not reason.
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Recognition, Restoration, Reparation, Watch them all fall down. Revolution, the only solution, The armed response of an entire nation, Revolution, the only solution, We've taken all your shit, now it's time for restitution.
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