Happy St. Patty’s day! Hopefully you celebrate by giving to the poor and spreading the Gospel, which is what Patrick would have wanted … not the drunken thing it’s become.
Read a headline this week where Obama spoke and said we need confidence in our economy. Anyone else find this ironic coming from a guy who has been saying this is an “unprecedented economic crisis” and other types of rhetoric?
A sure way to turn a recession into worse, even a depression, is to use crisis rhetoric, spend (and waste) gobs of money you don’t have, and overtax the very people who need to be investing, spending and creating more jobs. Check, check, and … check. Wow. Good job. I didn’t mention printing money like they are Jonas Brothers posters, but that’s in there, too. Hyper inflation doesn’t necessarily help average Joe afford his mortgage.
Our government is seriously considering taking away the ability to write off charitable giving — in other words, they will tax money you give away out of the kindness of your own heart.
Like I said before, socialism, while preaching a type of compassion, does not teach people to be personally compassionate. It teaches them to be selfish and greedy with what they do get, expecting a bureacracy (without a soul or personality) to be compassionate for them. Forced compassion has the opposite effect — haven’t we, as Christians, learned anything about legalism in the past 2,000 years? I guess not.
By the way, some interesting comparisons between conservatives and liberals. Who do you think gave more of their salary to charitable giving, Dick Cheney or Barack Obama? Well, you guessed it … Dick Cheney, with all the demonizing the media and liberals have done on the man, actually gave more than 70% of his VP salary to charitable giving. How much did Obama give of his Senatorial salary? Less than 1%. Hmmnn.
I think it is funny how most people who love the buzz word “sustainability” probably voted for Obama who, in a matter of weeks, has outspent every president who ever lived … and is borrowing and printing money to do it.
I like the Pope. I mean the man and what he’s been saying. I really don’t like the position and the system behind it, but I like ol’ Benedict.
He comes out this week and boldly states that condoms won’t hinder the spread of AIDS in Africa — only abstinence before marriage and fidelity during marriage will do this. He actually said just encouraging condom use will make it worse.
Of course, he’s right. And while liberals say he cares more about his religious views more than the African people, nothing could be further from the truth. Is it loving to treat people like animals that cannot (or should not even try) control themselves so we give them condoms? Or maybe the Pope does love them because he sees them as people created in God’s image so it matters, morally, what they do. In other words, if he’s right, is it love to lie?
One last thing: unfortunate that we have a president that gives in to the deception that fetal stem cells are necessary for scientific advancement. Not surprising, though, which is also unfortunate.
Peace.