Jesus gave out free food, wine, health care and education and told his followers to do the same without fanfare or self aggrandizement.
Jesus told us to pay our taxes.
Jesus would be for a great citizens safety net, especially in this modern automated tech world that can easily afford to provide: tax funded free education, healthcare, and modest room and board.
Jesus will not be happy with you if you vote for the anti poor, anti citizens conservatives.
The whole concept of the a "conservative christian" is an oxymoron.
He railed against the selfishness of the rich. He told them to give away all their belongings.
Jesus is clearly a Liberal, but folks don't know what Liberal and Conservative mean.
The founders were Locke Liberals fighting against the Burke Conservative big money oligarchs.
It is impossible to be a GOPT anti "promote the general welfare" Conservative and a real Christian.
Jesus defended an adulteress, yet fake Christians murder abortion providers.
Jesus fed the poor, the cons murder the homeless.
Conservatives hate Christ.
The Cons response to this meme is to claim Jesus meant for individuals to give, not for the gov to "force" us all to! Never mind Jesus said to accept being forced to pay taxes, "theft" as the Cons call it, dues for civilization as the people who believe in the Founder Locke Liberal social contract call it.
But the republic only asks for 50% over a million, 90% over a billion on personal income and gains, with 10 year averaging and inflation adjusted basis. Plus a wealth and estate tax. You will still be very rich and you will get to live in a much better nation. You didn't make your money on a desert island, it was our society that kept you alive and provided your opportunities. Concentration of wealth is a flaw of low taxes capitalism and it destroys democracy.
Private charity is not the way take care of the poor and needy. A great citizens safety net is. Sweden, Germany Holland all manage it, we can too. Automation and tech make it easy. We have more than enough wealth in the world, it's just clotted in too few hands. Charity has never worked in history. The closest we as a species have come to fulfilling Jesus' call to help the poor, is using the power of the democracy, the republics to systemically care for the poor. I think Jesus would be pleased and proud of that accomplishment.
Just imagine explaining to Jesus why you voted to let 90% of the poor suffer and die, so that a few rich folks could make themselves look like heroes publicly by giving to their church, (not really a charity) so the church can help a few thousand people?
You have been duped by the anti Christs money worshiping conservatives and GOPT.
You really think your "let em die" agenda would be popular with Jesus compared to the Swedish German, Dutch successful attempts to take care of nearly all the poor?
That's why Jesus said you rich have about as much chance of getting into heaven as a camel passing through the eye of a sewing needle. Conspicuous charity let's rich folks fool themselves, and avoid the pitchforks.
The Cons hate the hippies, they were dirty and smelly. The hippies were for peace and love, and lived on charity, and were not as clean as some of the richer folks. Jesus was a hippie.
The Cons hate the poor, Jesus worked against poverty.
How stupid are we? Do we really want a nation where the he rich rule like kings of old, over the diseased, retarded, ignorant superstitious. desperate serfs? How do you think that will compete in the modern world? will it be a fun place to live? Assuming you are not a sadist?
Or would you rather we "Promote the general welfare... of we the people" with tax paid free education, healthcare, and modest room and board for all who need it?
That gives us educated, healthy, smart, secure citizens. The kind of nation the non sociopath rich want to live in. What sort of person leaves their friends, the nation that made them rich, family and neighborhood just to pay lower taxes?
As for Christmas, The Burke rich and wannabe be rich Cons view it as a pagan holiday to the money changers, and we let them get away with it.
Christ's Masses were for the poor.
Nicholas was Bishop of Myra, in modern-day Turkey, during the 4th century. Among other saintly attributes, he was noted for the care of children, generosity. But the Cons seem to care if he was white, while they don't even give coal to millions of struggling poor folks. .
The Cons are scrooge, though they rarely wake up.
The modern Burke Conservative movement is anti Christ, anti Christmas.
Why do so many people follow these Cons?
Propaganda.
6 corporations control 90% of the media, and the ingrate rich, not all rich, constantly wage a propaganda campaign to program the naive into hate each other, the poor, our social contract, and everything our Locke lLberal founders fought for.
They have been widely successful.
http://www.americanprogress.org/...
"A significant part of the problem appears to lie with the inaccurate use of labels. Without a doubt, self-professed conservatives consistently outnumber liberals in polls when Americans are questioned about their respective ideological orientations. Politicians, pundits, and reporters tend to believe that this extends to their views on the issues. It doesn’t. In fact it represents little more than the extensive investments conservatives have made in demonizing the liberal label and associating it with one unflattering characteristic after another."
The GOPT cons hate democracy, truth, honesty, the republic, the BEAST they call it, the people they call the 'mob", they only love money, rule by the rich,hereditary plutocracy, and corporatist fascism.
But the Fox robot believe the them. Defend them like the loyal serfs they are becoming, and blame the people trying to help everyone for being commies, socialist and trying to take their "rights" away.
The GOPT serfs are completely owned, mind and soul. That's about 30% of the population, and I doubt most of them will ever recover.
People actually don't know the Founders were Locke Liberals who fought against the Burke conservative rule by the rich folks.
Concentration of wealth is a flaw in our economic system, made worse by tech and automation. Progressive taxation, with education, healthcare and modest room and board for all who need it is the cure, that create prosperity for all, not just the super rich few.
Quick, Identify these quotes:
"When economic power became concentrated in a few hands, then political power flowed to those possessors and away from the citizens, ultimately resulting in an oligarchy or tyranny."
"As riches increase and accumulate in few hands . . . the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard."
"I hope we shall crush ... in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country".
What do you think? Mao? Marx?
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Liberal is a good thing, Conservative, as in the modern cons, is Hereditary rule by the rich and abject poverty and death for the rest.
Obama told us he was not a liberal. 87% of the dems are now corporate New Democrats who on their webs site extol the virtues of deregulation, tax cutting free trade fossils and nukes.
http://www.obamatheconservative.com/
Only the Progressive Caucus and Green party folks aren't completely bought.
6 corporations control the media, so they present corporate candidates well, and citizens candidates poorly.
Look at what Obama's admin is doing: the new free trade disaster, promoting fracking and nukes all over the world using the power of our republic, and putting 50% tariffs on solar to slow it down.
Increasing drones strikes, staying in Afghanistan forever, continued rendering and assassination of suspects, hypocritical refusal to pardon all the pot heads in prison and end the fed war on pot and drugs, no public option,
Obama and gang are Reagan "moderate" conservatives.
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
http://democratsagainstthedlc.blogspot.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
Also called New democrats, pragmatic Progressive, Blue dogs, New American Foundation, Progressive Policy Council, Third Way..
http://www.dlc.org/
http://thatsmycongress.com/
You will also hear about "classical Liberalism" which came 100 years after our founders, and is rule by the rich. But cons till try to convince you the founders were "Classical Liberals" and quote from Classical Liberal tests to prove they would be modern pro rule by the rich Cons. Keep the serfs down on the farm is an ancient rule by the rich strategy.
The people want what the Progressive Caucus and the Green party propose.
13% of the Democrats are real founder type Locke Liberals like Kucinich, Grayson, Warren and the Progressive Caucus.
http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/
http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/...
http://www.greenpartywatch.org/...
search US "Progressive Caucus" candidates
The lame stream doesn't tell you these things. The corporations don't want you to vote smart.
Are Sweden, Germany and Holland socialist? No. The USSR was, China is.
Socialism and communism are the same thing. All socialist countries are run by the communist party. Marx and Engels defined both.
Caring for the citizens is not socialism. Society is not socialist.
Warren/Grayson 2016!
Stop voting for the shiny corporatist.
Stop letting the corporate owned media tell you who is cool.
We should have elected Kucinich, and lots more of the Progressive Caucus folks
but we were deceived.
Here's how to make sure you don't "throw away your vote".
The Primaries are essential.
We need to risk electing people who work for our interest, no matter how impossible the 6 corporation's media tells us they are. Remember Reagan couldn't win.
Make sure you tell everyone that you will vote for the good candidate, and that you did. It's secret. You wanted to vote for them, but the system did not allow it.
Then when it's time to vote, if the good candidates have a good chance based on polls, vote for them, else vote for the lesser of evils.
Take this along when you meet with those Fox Programmed Conservatives blowhards over the holidays,
and
Have a Merry Christmas
and
a Happy New year!