Posted on 01/11/2005 3:53:02 AM PST by Lindykim
Like Salvato, I feel tremendous sorrow for those who have suffered and still are doing do. But because I believe in the principles espoused by Salvato, support monies contributed by my family towards the relief effort have been handed over to our church and the Salvation Army who will use it responsibly.
Our gov't confiscated tax dollars on the other hand, will be handed out indiscriminately. Which means that, for instance, the likelihood of the grocer who lost his business receiving the same amount of financial aid as the peddler of children for sex is pretty high. But then Marxism is blind to moral differences because high moral standards can't be allowed to exist in a worldview that believes in and forces 'sameness' upon everyone and everything. Again, like Salvato, my anger is over the fact that our gov't, which long ago adopted a Marxian welfare mentality, forces all of us to hand our hard-earned money over so as to allow for it to be redistributed in proper Marxist fashion. Hence we are forced into subsidizing huge bureaucracies that exist for no other purpose than to redistribute our money to human parasites.......incentive-lackng idlers, the chronically lazy and shiftless, criminals, smut peddlers, and so on.
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Where was the outcry for world support from the redistributionists when 800,000 Rwandans were systematically exterminated?......or how about for the thousands upon thousands of Sudanese, many of whom are Christian, who are being butchered, raped,starved, and/or enslaved by Muslim extremists?
Where was their cry for world support when Fla was devastated by 3 consecutive hurricanes?
The preceding cases are examples of human secularist/Marxist-motivated double-standards. All of these victims "don't count" as sufferers nor are they deserving of moral consideration under insanity-producing Marxist/secular humanist ideology. Incredibly, all of these sufferers, when viewed through the reality and truth 'distortion lens' of secular humanism/Marxism, come out looking like the villains who 'deserve whatever bad things happen to them'.
>>So...would she run to government to stop the big bad developer who wants to build apartments in her neighborhood? Funny how so many "conservatives" get tripped up on that one.<<
We moved to our house and not long after, the Gov't threw Section 8 housing in.
We now homeschool to avoid the undisciplined children and are saving to move. We did not run to the Gov't, we are taking our own responsibility.
snip...So...would she run to government to stop the big bad developer who wants to build apartments in her neighborhood? Funny how so many "conservatives" get tripped up on that one
Conversely, one might ask if the preceding hypothetical is an argument "in favor of" big gov't and big gov't intrusion? A morally informed, principled people would be capable of dealing with your hypothetical in a manner that excludes the need for big brotherism.
"So...would she run to government to stop the big bad developer who wants to build apartments in her neighborhood?"
If she's in a neighborhood, it would be less than difficult to get her neighbors to "convince" (through development laws, protests, and class action suits) the developers to choose a new place for an apartment complex.
Aside from that, however, it still isn't a matter of government doing with your money what it wishes in this case. In this case, government could be used as an arbiter of its laws that it was founded on. An unbiased over-seer. Thats the reason we haev the government in the first place.
Exactly....the third world country leaders know if a disaster strikes...the rest of the world will rush to bail them out...that's why they spend $0.00 on protecting their own citizens with mundain things like buoys that warn of approaching tidal waves...this is not rocket science folks......
I don't follow what the author is trying to say. That the government should not provide disaster relief? Or does she think hurricanes and tornadoes only destroy property along beachfronts and in narrow little "alleys" that sensible and responsible people can avoid?
snip...Don't forget about all the money redistributed to homeowners. Is this a great country or what?
And your point is?
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