I should have stayed off this thread. Somebody actually threatened that they would zot me. I stand up for the handicapped like JimRob, I stand up for murdered babies, I stand up for slaughtered baby harp seals, I stand up for reasonable measures environmentally not to turn the whole country into a parking lot, I stand up for family values, I stand up for Christian morality, and I stood up for a handicapped woman they murdered in Flordia whose name I'd better not bring to this thread.
I just don't stand up for Wal Mart and people who screw around with the American working poor who are trying to do the best they can with what they have to work with and aren't making it.
And I don't contribute as much as some of you do, but I pay what I can. So I'm not exactly a freeloader here.
"I just don't stand up for Wal Mart and people who screw around with the American working poor"
You mean people who EMPLOY the working poor?
Joy.
You need joy.
Try not to get caught up in the arguing that goes on here, and enjoy your life.
"I stand up for slaughtered baby harp seals"
I take it that your least favorite beverage is Canadian Club...
I respect that you are approaching this from a Christian background. You didn't respond to the parable I posted about the servants and the talents their master gave them. Isn't this a complex message? How could the "Master" be proud of servants for investing? --- I accept "Blessed are the Poor". What do you think Jesus meant when he said "the poor will always be with us"?
I think He was saying that in this world, that is not his kingdom there will be illness, and handicap and poverty of spirit. "My Kingdom is not of this world". He was inviting us to focus on salvation and unity in him. Try as we might, the sinful world will have the poor.
You need to learn the lessons of history. Robspierre, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Ceausescu, Hitler, Pol Pot, Castro, Kim Il Sung, all thought they could bring about equality. Marxism denies the diversity of humanity and must oppress to bring about equality. There is too much diversity created by God in us and only an all-powerful state can prevent talented people from succeeding and disadvantaged people from sinking. Frankly, you deny that humanity when you divide those who you are dialoging with you into either victims of oppression or evil oppressors.
With the best of intentions the monsters I mentioned have murdered millions because they seek the impossible equality.
I am reading Pol Pot's biography right now and his search for marxist equality at the cost of millions fanatically murdered is chilling.
If you believe in yourself and look for the next opportunity to better your self you can abandon the class envy which really only hurts you.
Baby seals? Environmentalism?
I'd rather have ANWR oil and nuclear power.
Not only are you a liberal fifth columnist, you're ALSO a WATERMELON!!!
(Green on the outside...RED on the inside.)
Being anti-abortion isn't enough to qualify you as a conservative, you poseur. Even Hitlery is anti-abortion these days.
That is your first intelligent statement. You post a link from a UNION website, knowing full well it is a slanted socialist group and you expected people to think that this was an unbiased assessment? You have totally ignored posts from people who work at Walmart or have family members who do, you'd rather believe a union site. That shows me that your feelings lean to the left and you deserve all the criticism you have received.