You were doing so well...WHY did you have to ruin my day bringing up the poster child for CU ?
Posted on 11/18/2005 4:17:11 AM PST by ajolympian2004
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The fatal flaw of socialism is its incompatibility with human nature. It's delusional to believe that one will work as hard for the benefit of a stranger as he would for the benefit of his family and himself. Socialism penalizes excellence and rewards sloth.
Mike Rosen, in very simple terms, nailed it! France is a firsthand example of how and why socialism doesn't work!
Comforting the afflicted is a well-intended, kind and charitable thing to do if we define an affliction as a distressful condition caused by a misfortune beyond one's control. But what about self-affliction? Is one equally entitled to someone else's property - to afflict the comfortable - if his poor condition is the consequence of his own negligence, laziness or irresponsibility? Doesn't God help those who help themselves?
I am impressed that, although Mike Rosen is not a religious man, he has a better understanding of Jesus' teachings, than many Christians do. Yes, Christians (NOT the government) are to help, widows and orphans, and the poor...but the Bible is very clear that people are expected to take care of themselves and their families!
"For you yourselves know how you ought to follow our example, because we did not act in an undisciplined manner among you, nor did we eat anyone's bread without paying for it, but with labor and hardship we [kept] working night and day so that we might not be a burden to any of you; not because we do not have the right [to this,] but in order to offer ourselves as a model for you, that you might follow our example.
For even when we were with you, we used to give you this order: if anyone will not work, neither let him eat. For we hear that some among you are leading an undisciplined life, doing no work at all, but acting like busybodies. Now such persons we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ to work in quiet fashion and eat their own bread. 2 Thessalonians 3:7-12
I think this is worth repeating...
"For we hear that some among you are leading an undisciplined life, doing no work at all, but acting like busybodies."
Now who does THAT remind you of?
Sorry for the rant...I am sick of the ENEMEDIA and Liberals....
Having been to the old Soviet Union (Russia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan) both before and after the fall of communism, as well as China, I can attest to that from personal experience.
Socialism penalizes excellence and rewards sloth.
It instills in them a sense of entitlement, but no sense of personal responsibility. It breeds generations of lazy whiners who use all their "productive capability" to think of more ways of how they can milk their system, while doing less.
No wonder their lives feel so empty. No work, no God, No responsibility... what sense of self worth do that have?
(preview is my friend)
And you end up with a population dependent on the government...just as the democrats want it...
Exhibit A... New Orleans!
Now why did that comment conjure up visions of Kruschev banging his shoe on the podium?
Listen to me! I want more! I want more money I want more recognition! I want more adulation! I want a statue a hundred feet tall! I want I want I want...
Name one dictator or one DemocRAT who wouldn't benefit from a couple of weeks of Super Nanny!
Spoiled brats, all of them. Bad, bad behaviour unchecked leads to mayhem and tyranny.
Enjoy your blessings and give thanks.
Drudge Report headline:
Murdoch predicts gloomy future for press...
Murdoch didn't have to go too far out on a limb, did he? ;o)
LOL! Me too!
Well, I heard somewhere that the DemoRATS have a fatal contagion: ill-liberality.
Hey, Jan in Colorado,
What's the latest on Psycho-Ward Churchill?
One of the weekend hosts on what was the Art Bell show opens with a paraphrase of that line.
I wondered where it came from, and why the Art Bell guy, a graduate of theology school would spout such a thing.
I instinctively knew it bizarre, and now I know the reason why.
On the other hand, maybe not...that would be too honest!
You were doing so well...WHY did you have to ruin my day bringing up the poster child for CU ?
The OSM (old stream media) is history and they know it.
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