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Ok, Governor, buy me a Bible and highlight the passage where Jesus says “Go forth and petition Caesar to seize your neighbor’s crops and redistribute them to the poor.”
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It’s in 1st Commies, Chapter 8, verses 6-8.
Of the Old Bernie Testament.
Damn…you two beat me to it. Curses!
[…] The Snark of the Day, from Darleen Click, Protein Wisdom: […]
Jesus facepalmed.
Wait,what? I thought that separation of church and state was a good thing.
It’s a one-way wall. You have to keep church out of the state, but if you can get the state into the church — like, to co-opt the church to serve the state — it’s all good.
Yes, where “good” is a euphemism for power.
And for that, our thanks, Machiavelli!
There is a aspect of the welfare state not spoken of often, but as important as any other, generally understood, as;”the bigger the government the smaller the citizen”. That is such a great bumper sticker everyone knows what it entails and so it becomes ‘settled science’, to coin a phrase, with no further discussion necessary. For government to grow, We The People surrender authority. No Duh!
There is a deeper level to this aspect that is killing our republic more than the debt, immigration, or what have you. I think it was Michiavelli said “power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely”.
My reworking; all government is corrupt, big government corrupts all. In other words, big government currupts everyone it has authority over. It must to exist. The truth though is it isn’t really the SIZE of government that corrupts, it is the very nature of the relationship between government/citizenry.
I’m thinking the creation of Social Security was the beginning of the end. When government assumed responsibility for the elderly, the ones relieved of the responsibility are diminished as humans, individual virtue is denied,, the character of the society is changed.
As (I think) Adams said: ” our government is for a religious and virtuous people, being totally inadequate for any other” or something like that. And Franklin I believe said “when the people discover they can vote themselves money [ie, when government is
bigpowerful enough to give it away] it’s all over”Well, it’s all over. Too many of our fellow citizens have been stripped of virtue and grasp at socialism, any other form of governence being wholly inadequate for a self absorbed and unserious people.
I’d say God help us, but America has rejected Him (no more Ten Commandments for Oklahoma!), and sold our souls to the state. May the next president take care of us, amen…
Nope. Old Niccolo would have laughed at Acton as the Baron of Obvious.
It was John Emerich Edward Dahlberg Lord Acton who said “power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
And the kind of corruption he was talking about is the kind on display in this demonstration fawning bootlickery.
Dammit McGehee, stop copying my homework!
Now, now, you kids…shake hands and make up [or, if you’re bi-curious: make-out].
I’m pretty sure in today’s gender unspecific (unless specified I hasten to add) America, hugging has (shudder) become the norm. Unless you got one of them cool bro handshakes that has five parts and involves bumping something. Which, I’m sorry, you may as well start air kissing like a Frenchman.
Our culture makes me sad…
a site for the mailman’s son
the gospel of bernie
http://gospelofbernie.com/
The only curiosity that would be satisfied would be Ernst finding out what it’s like to kiss a mustache.
Unless there’s something about Frau Schreiber that he hasn’t told us.
It is in there if you squint.