reply to post by crimvelvet
I find more fault with conservative Christians than socialists. Virtually all the phony sex-abuse cases were driven by those groups. Most Child
Protective Services outfits I've seen on the news or been aware of in my cities seem to be heavily salted with evangelical Christians eager to "save"
kids, placing them preferentially with evangelical families.
Native Americans are very familiar with the child-stealing propenseties of Christians: the Indian Child Welfare Act was passed in the '70s to halt
them from stealing our children.
If you study how most of the laws wound up twisted to prevent parental discipline, you'd find a lot of Christian groups influenced it that way for a
variety of reasons, depending on locality.
But the problem started earlier when the corporate world invaded the last vestiges of private home time. Remember the ads touting devices that allowed
you to work at the beach, at home, in your car? Never questioning whether an employer had any right to ask you to divert the time you should spend
raising your family on his business instead, without compensation. The ruthless threat of termination for not giving above and beyond robbed many
families of the time, the energy, and the ability to properly raise their children.
Ultimately this crisis is a failure of the business model of running a government.
Tax breaks for business have consistently failed to generate profits for the local economies providing them. Incentive programs aimed at large
corporations have failed to produce jobs. Turning a blind eye to financial and banking malfeasance has not improved the economy. Reagan ran California
into the dirt, and started the process in Washington the end of which we see playing out now. Greed is
not good, allowing massive wealth
accumulations is
not wise, and the magic "marketplace" will
not correct things if left to its own.
We need fewer businessmen in politics and more teachers, I think.
edit on 20-2-2011 by apacheman because: clarity
