Carnegie was opposed to helping people who fell on hard times because he thought it would make them lazy. Today’s American Oligarchs still believe in that useful, guilt-assuaging trope. That’s why the GOP wants to cut Food Supports, Medicaid, and criminalize homelessness. They believe they are eliminating disincentives to work. I find th…
Carnegie was opposed to helping people who fell on hard times because he thought it would make them lazy. Today’s American Oligarchs still believe in that useful, guilt-assuaging trope. That’s why the GOP wants to cut Food Supports, Medicaid, and criminalize homelessness. They believe they are eliminating disincentives to work. I find that odd, as hunger, homelessness and illness don’t tend to make for good workers. These <mostly> wealthy men have jumped on the bandwagon of greed and cruelty. We certainly can’t afford to put one back in the Oval Office - let alone allow them to decide how their “excess” wealth (would they believe that there is such a thing as excess wealth??!!) would be spent for the “betterment” of society!!
Thanks, Torquil. Thessalonians 2, chapter 3, verses 11 and 12, and 14 and 15. “We hear there are some which walk among you disorderly, not working at all, but are busybodies. . . .such we command and exhort. . .that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.” (If that doesn’t work, try shunning . . .) “Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.”
Haven’t you heard from right-wing pastors? New Testament ideas don’t work in today’s world. Jesus of the Gospels rarely “kicks ass.” Just love thy neighbor and namby-pamby forgiveness.
Carnegie was opposed to helping people who fell on hard times because he thought it would make them lazy. Today’s American Oligarchs still believe in that useful, guilt-assuaging trope. That’s why the GOP wants to cut Food Supports, Medicaid, and criminalize homelessness. They believe they are eliminating disincentives to work. I find that odd, as hunger, homelessness and illness don’t tend to make for good workers. These <mostly> wealthy men have jumped on the bandwagon of greed and cruelty. We certainly can’t afford to put one back in the Oval Office - let alone allow them to decide how their “excess” wealth (would they believe that there is such a thing as excess wealth??!!) would be spent for the “betterment” of society!!
I don’t remember God saying that. Pretty sure Jesus said nothing of the sort. “Let them starve?” Their children, too?
Thanks, Torquil. Thessalonians 2, chapter 3, verses 11 and 12, and 14 and 15. “We hear there are some which walk among you disorderly, not working at all, but are busybodies. . . .such we command and exhort. . .that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.” (If that doesn’t work, try shunning . . .) “Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.”
Haven’t you heard from right-wing pastors? New Testament ideas don’t work in today’s world. Jesus of the Gospels rarely “kicks ass.” Just love thy neighbor and namby-pamby forgiveness.