04.21.12
Wealthiness is next to Godliness
From a column, recommended by Pine View Farm:
We’ve bought into the morality of the market completely. Economic success is a matter of morality, of working hard and doing all the right things. If you fail, you deserve all the hardships, degradation and shame you’ll get. If you don’t have any money, you are a loser. Watch CNBC personality Rick Santelli’s infamous rant about losers.
Whatever the rich have, they deserve to keep because they worked for it. Poor people don’t deserve help because it only makes them weaker. If we lend a hand to those who stumble during the race, it belittles the efforts of those who kept running …
This is the guiding governing philosophy in the House of Representatives. Rep. Paul Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, has argued that his budget plan is guided by his Catholic faith …
In other words, budget cuts in programs such as food stamps, unemployment benefits, housing assistance and health care aren’t just a fiscal necessity; they are a moral mandate, Ryan says.
While US Catholic bishops are hardly ever good for anything, at least they couldn’t stomach Ryan’s rationalizations. Jesus didn’t suddenly transmute into Republican Jesus, scourge of the lepers and poor.
Blessed are the job creators/They can always hire way more waiters.