Posted on 08/03/2012 4:42:44 AM PDT by Kaslin
If every American was a Christian conservative Tea Partier...
1) …There would be fewer regulations, lower taxes, a business-friendly environment, and a much smaller government that would lead to considerably stronger economic growth and job creation. In fact, we'd probably have to dramatically increase the number of work permits we hand out to foreign workers, not because there are "jobs Americans won't do" (which don't actually exist), but because so many Americans would be employed that we'd have to bring in more people to do all of the available work.
2) ...The richest Americans would have more money. Of course, so would the middle class and the poor. In fact, the only Americans who wouldn't benefit economically would be the Americans who spend their lives relying on the government, instead of their own effort, to pay their bills.
3) ...We'd have some form of a Balanced Budget Amendment to insure that we don't have a deficit or a debt.
4) ...We'd have a much flatter, simpler tax code that you could fill out on a single sheet of paper.
5) ...Welfare and food stamps would still exist, but there wouldn't be as much need for them, it would be considered shameful to take either, and you can be sure that people would have to work for every hand-out they receive.
6) ...Social Security would be privatized and invested. That means the people who put nothing in would have nothing to take out, but the people who do pay in would have a lot more money to withdraw.
7) ...We'd still put some research money into alternative energy, but we'd also work to build a lot more nuclear power plants and we'd encourage private industry to produce more clean coal and natural gas. Oil would also be much cheaper because we'd have already drilled ANWR, the keystone pipeline would be built, and we'd be opening up federal land to environmentally responsible drilling at every opportunity. This would lead to much lower energy bills for the average American.
8) ...We'd have the same sort of "loser pays" legal system that’s practiced in much of the rest of the civilized world. That would dramatically reduce the number of lawsuits and the cost of legal insurance.
9) ...There would be a lot less government workers and the ones we’d have would make less on average than the taxpayers paying their salary.
10) ...Health care would be much cheaper and more efficient because you could buy insurance across state lines; we'd have tort reform, health care savings accounts, and tax credits for health care would go to individuals instead of companies, which means that you wouldn't lose your insurance if you lose your job.
11) ...The fence would be built, the border would be secure, anyone who overstayed his VISA would be tracked down and deported, and illegal aliens who did make it into the country would be forever barred from visiting here legally or becoming citizens.
12) ...Legal immigration would be faster, cheaper, and much more efficient. We'd also be selecting new American immigrants based on merit instead of rewarding people for breaking our laws or allowing them to come here because their son or cousin already managed to become a citizen.
13) ...English would be the national language.
14) ...People would look at you like you’re an idiot, as they should today, if you suggest that the Constitution is a living document. You'd also see a lot more Constitutional amendments because the Supreme Court would stick to the law as written unless it was amended.
15) ...The crime rate would be so low because of the lack of criminals and the prevalence of guns that in much of the country, people wouldn't bother to lock their doors.
16) ...The death penalty would be applied much more liberally for terrible crimes and it wouldn't take 15 years of appeals to carry it out.
17) ...All people would be welcome to practice their religious faith with no official state-run religion, just as the Founding Fathers intended. So, yes, you could have a manger in front of the town hall at Christmas and the Ten Commandments on a court house wall, and teachers in public school could teach from the Bible in class when it was appropriate.
18) ...Not only would there be no gay marriage, we'd be taking steps to strengthen marriage -- like getting rid of no-fault divorce and it would be acknowledged that a mother and a father would do a better job of raising kids than any other combination.
19) ....Children would be taught abstinence in school, having kids out of wedlock would be frowned upon, and abortion would be legal only in the case of rape, incest, or danger to the life of the mother.
20) ...Kids would start out school with the Pledge of Allegiance and a daily prayer.
21) ...We'd have school vouchers so that we could introduce competition into our school systems and allow all parents to send their kids to the same kind of schools that the rich do today. We'd also spend a lot more time teaching kids reading, writing, arithmetic, history, and economics and spend a lot less time worrying about their self-esteem.
22) ...You wouldn't have terrorists, communists, and people who hate America teaching at our universities.
23) ...Racism would practically be non-existent, there would be no need for the NAACP, LA RAZA, or Affirmative Action and people would, "not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
24) ...We'd have safe water, safe food, clean air, and a clean environment, but we'd put an end to the years of legal challenges to new building projects and people having their land declared a "wetland" because the ground gets soggy for a few days a year.
25) ...There would be no public unions. Private unions would, of course, still exist, but no one would be forced to join and employers, if they so desire, would be able to fire everyone in the union and get a new work force.
They might have worn them to Yankee Stadium in the forties and early fifties, but I doubt they were wearing them by the late fifties...judging by photos I’ve seen from that time period. I went to major league games in Milwaukee and the Twin Cities in the early sixties, and few if no men wore hats other than baseball hats or straw hats. I didn’t see anybody in a suit and tie sitting in the stands. My dad wore a fedora/suit and tie to work, but he sure didn’t wear one anywhere else.
Please help me out. I read the post and did not see anything that indicated government could, should or would establish a religion. You apparently did. Can you enlighten me by providing the direct quote?
If you want the teacher of your kids quoting from the bible, then send them to a private school. If I had a kid in the public school system, I do not want teachers leading prayer sessions even if it’s just one prayer thank you very much.
The grand daddy of them all may even right now be waiting in the wings.
If this line were amended to read:
"If every American practiced the principles of Christianity, conservatism and the Tea Party..."
most of the negative comments would be baseless.
“The first amendment is no way forbids a 100% Christian nation (even if it be theoretical) - if all the people willingly chose to be so.”
I chose not to be so. So please spare me the preaching. I do believe in a Creator, just not exactly the one Christians believe in.
Outstanding! What you’ve described is, I’m convinced, as immutable a law of nature and of nature’s God as dogs giving birth to dogs and not cats. (The rebellious and the atheistic will deny both, of course.)
I’d add only this familiar adage: “He who will not rule himself will be ruled by another.”
Actually that's a piece this old phart is glad to see gone.
The invetor of the necktie should have been hauled out and hanged by it on the spot, and jackets are for cold weather.
IMHO; YMMV.
The first time I posted this it was addressed to myself, such is the risk if posting from my iPhone.
“The first amendment is no way forbids a 100% Christian nation (even if it be theoretical) - if all the people willingly chose to be so.”
I chose not to be so. So please spare me the preaching. I do believe in a Creator, just not exactly the one Christians believe in.
“Sorry if you thought I was directing this at you. I wasn’t. I was directing it at the people (like the writer of this article) who think making kids in public schools pray whether they want to or not is a good idea.
Regardless lets start with the very premise of a public school. The very idea of a state run school system should fill anyone with grave concerns. Those with a passing knowledge of the rise of socialist and communist states should be even more concerned. Knowing further that those who molded the American modern educational system were socialists should only increase those concerns yet again.
Given that the state runs the educational system, with no constitutionally enumerated power to do so, that it was designed by socialists that published their concept of spreading socialism by incrementalism starting with indoctrinating the youth, that the tax dollars spent on education keeps going up wildly while the standards of education are plummeting, that the leadership of the teachers unions have been overtly progressive for decades, that teachers plead poverty while their salaries and pensions are driving states to bankruptcy, your biggest concern is that a teacher might quote the bible or lead a prayer session? Really?!
You need to examine your axioms because your reasoning gravely flawed.
No liberals, commies in the universities huh?? Who is going to run the thought police in your "Utopian society"
No problem, sometimes it is difficult to sense tone from the written word.
It was addressed to me, and i did not impugn your freedom to believe differently, nor would i call my response preaching, but warranted argumentation and substantiation against the false premise on an overreaction against the article.
The title of the article suggested that we might all be Christians.
How was I not supposed to think that a Christian theocracy was not in the mind of the poster.
Stop being so sensitive. We are on the same side.
My only issue is that this would not be a Utopia, as ALL Utopias are by definition a Dystopia. However it would be a lot less Dytopian than the “Progressive Police State Utopia”.
“”If every American practiced the principles of Christianity, conservatism and the Tea Party...”
most of the negative comments would be baseless. “
Agreed
When I see someone putting words in someone elses mouth and then attacking them for it, it gives me the willies. Somehow it doesn't strike me as representing the principles of Christianity.
When I see someone putting words in someone elses mouth and then attacking them for it, it gives me the willies. Somehow it doesn't strike me as representing the principles of Christianity.
Today that could result in praying to Gia or ancestor worship, etc., as that reflects the deleterious difference between Christianity being the basic “civil religion” with its esteem for the Bible as the supreme moral standard, and modern-day liberation theology with its victim-entitlement theology, etc.
It is interesting that even the Unitarian “Father of the Common School,” Horace Mann (1796 —1859), who became Massachusetts Secretary of Education in 1837, stated that “it may not be easy theoretically, to draw the line between those views of religious truth and of Christian faith which is common to all, and may, therefore, with propriety be inculcated in schools, and those which, being peculiar to individual sects, are therefore by law excluded; still it is believed that no practical difficulty occurs in the conduct of our schools in this regard.” (Stephen V. Monsma, J. Christopher Soper, “The Challenge of Pluralism: Church and State in Five Democracies”, The Unites States, cp. 2, p. 21)
To critics who were alarmed at the concept of secular schools, he assured that his system “inculcates all Christian morals; it founds its morals on the basis of religion; it welcomes the religion of the Bible...,” but he did exhort that Bible reading be without comment to discourage sectarian bickering. (Mann, Twelfth Annual Report for 1848 of the Secretary of the Board of Education of Massachusetts. Reprinted in Blau 183-84).
And an estimated 75% of the school systems in the South had religious services and Bible readings (Colliers 1961 Yearbook p. 224) in 1962 when the Engel v. Vitale case was decided.
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