Voting on Taxes/Social Services
This one seems pretty clear to me too. There are two ways for the government to give you back your tax money. The first is in tax breaks. The second is in services ranging from food stamps to health care to social security and much more.
While I'll admit this is based purely on anecdotal, "gut feeling" evidence and no hard research at all, I would still bet that there's a pretty good chance that the ones who make off with the most cash from tax breaks are the upper brackets and corporations.
On the other hand, the ones who usually benefit the most from social services are the poor and disadvantaged. That seems to make the choice pretty clear to me.
Since GWB has kicked off his fancy tax cut plan, my taxes have pretty much stayed the same, Ken Lay with his millions has gotten off scot free, our social security system has taken a nosedive and a whole lot of children have been left behind.
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"Honor your father and mother that it may be well with you and you live long in the land".
where do we get our source of authority? is it from the constitution? from the Qur'an? from your board of directors?
if you are Christ follower then hopefully you take your authority from His words through history - the Bible. I don't read this book and see anywhere that it's up to the govt. to take care of people. if we lived in canada or old mother russia then this would be status quo. but i thought we lived in a democracy. socialism and communism have no place here. the people govern themselves and provide for themselves. not the govt.
one could argue that people, especially americans are overly proud and selfish and have neglected the care of their own. definitely agreed. but! i still don't see this care as falling to the govt. when we've failed ourselves. we've failed our own. we as children have neglected our parents and thus, dishonoring them. we as parents have neglected our children and given them a reason to dishonor.
unfortunately i don't see Kerry OR Bush rectifying this sad situation. we as people - first as Christ followers and THEN as Americans need to humble ourselves, seek His face and turn from our wicked and self-serving, self-seeking ways. we are responsible to God for ourselves. no president can make things right for us. and no govt. can fill in the gaps that we've created. chasm is probably a better word.
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