January 26, 2012
Where's My Debrox? He Couldn't Have Said That Everyone Needs to Play By the Same Set of Rules
From the President's State of the Union address:
or we can restore an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, and everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules.
Seriously??? The person who has issued over 1,200 waivers to his own, signature healthcare law is talking about everyone playing by the same set of rules? The person who issued the vast majority of those waivers to his friends in organized labor while simultaneously telling everyone else that they must comply with the law - his law! - is exhorting us to play by the same set of rules?
How did he refrain from laughing out loud when he got to that part of the speech?
Play by the same set of rules? Lead the way, Mr. President.
Meanwhile, please pass the duct tape.
"or we can restore an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, and everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules."
If we divided all the money equally on Monday, there would be rich and poor on Thursday.
Warrington,
Your Monday-Thursday conclusion is most-likely true, but there would be a helluva lot less poor people and a helluva lot less rich people. Ah, the via media; it goes back to The Buddha and shows up again and again, e.g. Greece and Rome.
I'd go for that trade off. How do we start?
OldTimeLefty
OTL, there is no reason to seek out Buddha, or secular history. "There will always be poor people in the land." Mark 14:7, Deuteronomy 15:11
Posted by: Warrington Faust at January 29, 2012 10:02 AMWarrington,
Never said it would eliminate the poor; it would make periodic course corrections, as we need today. Check out Jubilee Year in the Old Testament.