So yesterday, I was listening to the world’s only living brain donor, Juan Williams, debating with Rick Santelli about the debt ceiling. True to form, it took Juan all of about a minute to start prattling about the need to raise the debt ceiling and taxes, because we have a “moral obligation” to preserve entitlements, because we have a “social contract” with the recipients.
Really?
Really?
and then I saw this at Michelle Malkin
Washington (CNN) – Veteran Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel made an impassioned plea to religious leaders Friday, calling on them to lobby members of Congress and the Obama administration to remember the “lesser of my brothers and sisters” during this weekend’s debt negotiations.
“What would Jesus do this weekend? Or Moses. Or Allah. Or anyone else,” the New York congressman said at a press conference on Capitol Hill. “I don’t want this book (debt negotiations) closed without the clergy having an opportunity to forcefully express themselves as well as I know they can do.”
Well, Congressman…I’ve read the whole book many times, I missed the part where Jesus said “Pay lots and lots of taxes to Rome, so that Rome can buy the votes of the poor with your tax money (after witholding a significant handling fee, of course).” No, in the gospels, the charge was always on the individual to act…and that was markedly without a middle man to decide who got the help, in what degree, and to <i>ensure</i> that it would happen, or else.
But then all the translations I own are lacking “The Book Of Bureauocracy”, in which Jesus proclaims that the redistribution of wealth by the government is a noble goal, and that it is ok for government to display open hostility to everything else he said, and those who want to address those things publically.
An oversight, I’m sure.
Taxes, Stupidity, and Death 
Amazing how fast “morality” can come into play where entitlements are concerned.
I’m just surprised the term “social justice” was not used first.
I think he was referring to Jesus Gonzales, Moses Wasserman, and Mohammed Ali.
I could give two figs about the social contract bullshit. You know, my husband worked for a company with a plan (for retirement) where you got shares in the company. Employee owner stuff.
You know what happened? The old man died, the son sold the company to one of those guys who sells the company off piece by piece and then let’s the least profitable portion go bankrupt.
All those people were out everything. They were made promises. There was a social contract going on. And then someone came along and changed the rules, but no one cared because they weren’t a voting block.
Things happen. I’d like people crying about their social security to imagine – I know this is stretch – but imagine that our entire country is bankrupt and that shit is just gone.
Yeah, and I was promised “free” medical care for life. Things change. . . Juan and his butt-buddy, Charlie need to get over it.
Do you own anything that’s Caesar’s? I don’t. I even checked the mattress tags.
It’s just such a great idea to have a HUGE and luxurious government royalty so they can pass out the dregs to us in our time of need.
Yea.
Great idea.
what would allah do? probably send his devil minions to collect the taxes at swordpoint.
and what the hell is that bastard rangel doing still in congress? didn’t he have a small problem about paying HIS taxes not too long ago???
sheeesh….talk about gall
for I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not give me clothing, sick and in prison and you did not visit me…
And all that emphasis on the “you”, and not “Government compelled you to give so it could do some of those things for those it deemed worthy”…
Funny, that.
But then, it seems to be so easy to be compassionate with other people’s money.
Charlie Wrangel says in a totally un-ironic and cement headed fashion
Well first of all, Charlie, he might(qualified language as I obviously do not speak for Him) have told you to pay your taxes before the government came in and found you lacking. Render unto Caesar and all that.
Additionally he might excoriate you for your rampant hypocrisy in advocating such a confiscatory tax regime and then subsequently evading it. If higher taxes are a moral imperative(and by the way isn’t it liberals who are constantly telling us you can’t legislate morality???) what kind of moral reprobate are you in not paying your taxes to the fullest extent possible. And no Charlie claiming ignorance does not work when you sat on the committee that WRITES the tax law for decades.
Third, since expropriating property i.e. stealing is an un-qualified bad in the judeo-christian canon I think perhaps you might run up against some 8th commandment issues. After all it doesn’t say “thou shall not steal unless it is to equalize outcome and promote “social justice”. It says thou shalt not steal. Period. And considering the demagoguery he regularly engages in he might have some 9th commandment issues as well.
St Paul says in his second letter to the Corinthians:
It’s obvious that cheer is not what Charlie has in mind. Compulsion and confiscation under the veneer of religious edict is more like it.
The “Honorable” Mr. Rangel, being a member of the Ruling Class (elected and supported by those who exist only because of taxpayer largess), is of course above the law and not under the constraints applied to those who support him and his leech-like constituents.
Juan Williams is so dedicated to his Obama lap-dog status that he will go to any lengths to avoid any statement that “tells it like it is” when discussing the behavior of the Presidential Pretender. Williams does not offer any semblance of an intelligent debate; he simply parrots Democratic talking points without any attempt at intelligent discourse.
Additionally he might excoriate you for your rampant hypocrisy in advocating such a confiscatory tax regime and then subsequently evading it. If higher taxes are a moral imperative(and by the way isn’t it liberals who are constantly telling us you can’t legislate morality???) what kind of moral reprobate are you in not paying your taxes to the fullest extent possible.
Charlie has forgotten Acts 5:1-11:
But maybe it is just a matter of him not believing therefore not knowing what it is he would tend to invite.
Render unto Caesars what is Caesars…I too have found nothing that would imply a Christian’s highest charitable calling is to call on government to coerce Caesar’s peasants to distribute their goods more equally amongst themselves.
I believe the thought of charity through Caesar would be an abomination to God. Wasn’t charity supposed to be of a personal nature?
Convenient how these Marxist lite do everything imaginable to render Christ’s name moot in the public square, but have no problems using Him as tool to take more.
I give you the temple thieves, Dimocrats by another name.