"redistribution of wealth" can be made to sound like socialism, but socialism actually refers to a system where all wealth is owned by a society in common and its management is controlled by the elected representatives of that society. One of the maxims used to describe it was "from each according to their ability [to produce] to each according to their needs." That's not the same as collecting taxes and redistributing them to fund such programs, for example representative government, i.e. members of Congress, their assistants, their health care and their travel, let alone public schools and universities that provide education that allows graduates to fill jobs in private companies that make the tools, tubing, etc. that permit Joe the Plumber to be a plumber or a governor to work at home or to give out a multi-million $$ contract to a foreign company for a study to lay a pipline. Or the military, whose members, officers in particular, are likely to survive unscathed and less in need of the special care of the enlisted G.I. Joe, who through such medical regulations of not recognizing certain illnesses and other shenanigans may not even receive them. Through the service of McC.'s grandfather and father, he has been a lifelong beneficiary of someone else's taxes and will receive medical benefits for life. Even his double dipping on retirement is paid for by someone (many actually) else's taxes.
In a previous blog I referred to McC.'s chairmanship of the Indian Affairs Comm., passing casino legislation and then gambling with profit in the casinos, which is a more pernicious form of distributing wealth.
As both the governor in question (who is proud of her faith and prays with her congregation for federal money for the pipeline) and McC. benefit from the redistribution of wealth, my QUESTION is:
Can anyone who "sins" as a matter of course, throw the first or any stones (John 8,7)?
Monday, October 20, 2008
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