Archive of entries posted on 8th November 2012

The CORRECT Way to Help the Poor

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[High Praise! to The Gormogons]

So while it is the Christian thing to help the poor, care for the sick and elderly, and feed the hungry, it doesn’t mean that we should shrug off our personal calling in lieu of hoping and voting in such a way that the federal, state, or local government will do that for us….

…as per Matthew 25, our salvation is bound up in how we treat the poor, how we as individuals treat the poor in our midst. How can we love them if we never see them? If all we do is pay our taxes and buy a gift for the giving tree at Christmas? The Lord did not tell us to outsource the works of mercy.

Wisdom of the Day: Reactions to the Election

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Frank J. 2016: Punishment

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Still working on getting my presidential campaign started. I’m not quite sure all the things that need to be done, but I got plenty of time to figure it out.

Anyway, if you want to know what my views are, there of course is my book on how to fix everything in America. I’d like to focus on one thing now from the chapter on the economy. One of the problems we have these days is democracy as become basically a bunch of people voting how to spend our money. That’s awful. It used to be if people stole your money like that, they’d at least get their hands cut off. That’s why I want to bring back some form of punishment for messing with our money like that, and I think politicians are the perfect whipping boys. We really need it in the Constitution that under certain conditions, politicians will be punished for their failures by having all their wealth confiscated and redistributed to tax payers. If they want to keep their money, don’t mess with ours. The country will be a much better place the more severely and more often politicians are punished.

Frank J. 2016: I will make politicians suffer.

The Button

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I’m not really interested in current events right now, so I’m going to talk philosophy.

You know a while ago they had that movie The Box about how a couple who were presented with a box that had a button in it, and if they pressed the button they got a million dollars but someone they didn’t know would die. Instead of putting up the trailer, here’s my favorite parody of it (actually one my favorite parody videos of all time; just wish it were of a movie more people knew):

Anyway, when I saw that movie, I didn’t think much of it other than that the premise wasn’t enough to carry a whole movie and would have worked better as a Twilight Zone episode (which I believe it was). But now I’ve realized what a great metaphor that is for government spending.

You have in front of you a button labeled “Free Stuff.” If you hit it, you can get all manners of free things from the government like food or birth control or vouchers for electric cars. But someone you don’t know will suffer. You don’t know who will suffer — or even how many. Businesses could be destroyed, lives ruined, whole industries could crumble. But you’ll get free stuff. Do you hit the button?

That answer is many people will whack that button like they’re one of those drug-addicted rats in an experiments given a button to press to administer heroin. That’s what we have to work against. We have to make people morally sound enough that when given a button where they could hurt people to get free stuff, they’re disgusted by the premise. Of course, in the movie, it was well established someone would die when they hit the button, but I don’t think a lot of people understand that with government spending. That what we have to help people understand.

Random Thoughts: The Day After

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Why so serious?

A dour, cynical Obama with a horrible record won as easily as a hopeful, empty-slate Obama. Not sure what to take from that.

The old conservative guard is now dead! I am leader of the right now! Stay tuned for marching orders!

Lot of talk of Texas seceding which would really hurt economy. Should try and talk California into seceding instead.

We really need to already start prepping the next moderate squish for his run in 2016.

So what are Obama’s plans for the next four years that don’t involve getting anything through the Republican Congress?

So why did McCain get so many more votes than Romney? Palin?

Anyone ever consider the idea that people just don’t like jobs? If they’re so great, why do people have to pay us to do them?

Since I’ll be Constitutionally eligible then, I’m starting my 2016 campaign for president. Pays well and little supervision; cushy job.

My vow as president will be to do as little as possible because you’re all adults and I don’t care about your whiny little problems.

As president, I will give one speech per year and then we stay out of each other’s way.

I will make one change: Whining will no longer be a protected form of speech. Whining will get you deported.

So now we have to wait until 2016 to confiscate women’s uteruses?

Mustache-growing not going so well. Looking to be a depressing month.

So someone picked up Alan Grayson after he was unceremoniously hurled from his previous district?

Just FYI: I don’t want to ever hear anything about “tone” from any Democrat who does anything other than shun Alan Grayson.

Just going to throw this out there: Has the GOP tried nominating someone with a mustache?

So what guy who lost in the primary to Romney will we run in 2016?

The slow, self-inflicted disintegration of California is actually kind of fascinating to watch.

We can just close the deficit by taxing the rich more. And if the math doesn’t add up on that, math is racist.

So anyone expecting big things in Obama’s 2nd term?

We can take some consolation in the fact that those celebrating hardest will be the first to die when winter comes.

As Iron Man is always saying: “Winter is coming.”

So according to Nate Silver, what’s the percentage chance the five conservative Supreme Court Justices all live another four years?

I like Cory Booker. Has he thought about running for governor?

We should abolish taxes and when the government needs money for something it will just have to go door to door and ask for it.

I love libertarian advice for the GOP, because if there is one thing libertarians know, it’s winning elections.

Well, we still have big majority in the House and governors which is like a million times better than president so I totally don’t even care.

Shutdown

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One of the things you hear about from time to time are worries about a government shutdown. The Congress and the president always seem to find a way to avoid it. And, those ways always involve increasing the debt.

I got an idea. Let the government shut down.

No, I’m serious.

You see, the government doesn’t really shut down. All but essential services are stopped.

Think about that. Let that sink in.

Essential government services continue.

And that’s the clue to the entire problem: the government is performing non-essential services.

I’ve actually had this discussion with people. When I mention that the government shouldn’t be performing non-essential services, they counter with “Oh, but people are dependent on those services!”

Really. They’re justifying non-essential services by citing people that are so screwed up they can’t survive without them. But here’s the thing: they can. The services are non-essential. That means — and this is the part that so many people don’t seem to grasp — the services are not essential.

Oh, sure, there’ll be problems. But there will be problems anyway. The question is, when is the best time to deal with them: now, while they’re huge. Or later, when they’re even more huge.

Like Sarah Connor said, there’s a storm coming.

Stock up.