Reply #4: Glib.

[Deja Q]

Republicans - the ones I know anyway, but they're not keen on what's happening either, want people to be able to work and be productive.

Responding to your points:

1. No. But that's in the purview of the corporations who move jobs overseas. They aren't teaching anyone to fish. They're giving some people loaded poles and the rest, a hook through the heart.

2. No. But that's the problem of the people who run the state and country. This one is a bi-partisan fuck-up; there's plenty of blame to go around.

3. Out of every evil comes a greater good, that's all I've got to say. Though it's technically none of my business as to what people do with themselves either. Maybe if we all had consideration for life, this issue (and others) would be a non-issue.

4. Obviously not.

5. Is it okay to lie? The Bible says "no".

6. Deliberately? Or accidentally?

7. Who's innocent this time? Tookie's #2 henchman, Bookie?!

8. Not when an unborn might die. Fortunately, the last I heard, they are finding ways to make stem cells without killing a potential life. A life that could be a next generation scientist. Or maybe the next Hitler, but nobody's perfect... Don't forget, "pro-life" means womb to the tomb, no matter how often meatballbrain Limbaugh wants to write amusing songs with that phrase in it.)

9. No. Anyone looking at the entire situation would see how everybody is tap-dancing around the actual problems afoot. (Never mind we never used to have health care, but this issue is anything BUT simplistic or fault of a single entity... and I could make an entire post on this one alone.)

10. Depends on which chapter of the Bible we're speaking, and which testament. Or the others that contradict the first ones and the other way 'round. Don't forget, cherry-picking favored verses is fun.

11. No. The post-born should have more rights than the unborn; the unborn's only right is to survive when possible and as long as its life doesn't put the mother's in jeopardy.

12. No. But then, those sycophants shouldn't even be a legit ministry.

But, yeah, our corporate leaders and our government leaders who assist them are not Christian. They may be lackeys to the old-testament, but they are not Christian. And the gobbledygook about "Judeo-Christian" is the biggest fiction of all time.


Edit: Some clarifications.