Christian Clarity Review

April 7, 2008

“Conservative” Republicans as apologists for greed?

Yet another example of the lie that any government oversight is necessarily evil and that any legislation or any enforcement on white collar crime is ‘against the very principles of what made America great’. Excessive profits are a crime. Period.

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“Oh, I don’t know, that’s not my point” he replied. “I’m just saying that $3.29 a gallon for gasoline is outrageous, and we need to do something.”

“That’s a pricing issue” I said, “not a profits issue. Prices won’t decline until demand for gasoline decreases, or the supply of oil increases, or both. But forget the oil companies for a moment and let’s talk about you. How much profit did you make last year?”

Plainly even questioning the excessive profits of oil companies is being portrayed as personal greed that supposedly self-invalidates the questioning of corporate greed. It gets worse from there. The commenter goes on to link issues that are separate issues as if they were a moral lesson that should be taken as a meta in support of market place anarchy that turns out to be oligarchy:

More money taken away from private individuals in taxes. More governmental regulation of private affairs. More governmental intrusion into the lives of individual citizens. More of my “needs” being met by the government. At an increasing rate, ideas such as these are just fine for Republicans, so long as the expansion of government makes one feel better.

I understand John’s frustration with gasoline prices. But the U.S. Government that he seeks to harness so as to “reign in” oil company profits is the very same U.S. Government that has restricted or forbidden the development of many of our domestic oil supplies, and that requires oil companies to produce and sell both region-specific, and season-specific “blends” of gasoline, in varying parts of the country.

In short, the government that John believes can “save him” from the injustice of high gasoline prices has, by its own well-intended meddling, driven the price of gasoline upward.

What the spirit in the commenter is seeking to do is portray ANY government oversight as evil and Republicans as evil and self-invalidating for opposing socialists schemes that include big government of the Democrats that IS marketplace oligarchy as monopoly practices. By saying such nothings as “At an increasing rate, ideas such as these are just fine for Republicans, so long as the expansion of government makes one feel better.” as if he had made some valid statement, he plainly demonstrates he is on Townhall and the air to do nothing more than thwart government reform as implying the way things are done now is somehow sacrosanct.

Republicans on the street at least know they are Republicans because to a certain extent they oppose socialism and seek reform. Mr. Hill is seeking to portray them as evil simply because they have anything to do with government at all.

Some Republicans at least know the distinction between Socialism and non-socialism; between monopoly and true capitalism: between pure Democracy and Republicanism. Mr. Hill is at best a useful idiot if not a collaborator with Socialist. What he has effectively said is because some evil persons were used as a toy to do what they call government, but is in fact unjust and tyranny, that everyone else must not do government at all and that even to suggest otherwise is reckless and stupid.

The oil and gas industries need regulation. Period. Most basic infrastructure does.

To plainly state that is not in any way self-invalidating or hypocritical as those who get paid by the Corporations seek to portray in support of supposed individualism. That their lies have gained the upper hand in the marketplace does not excuse them or condemn those sent to reform those practices.

In the mind of anti-Christ, there is no absolute truth except himself as non-creating speech so those who claim to know truth outside of him must be hypocritical liars. But it is not so. Thus we have essentially a confrontational system of government wherein some people are in government and public speaking who just want to make money supposedly doing and saying smart stuff and hoping all others will leave them alone and never point out their nakedness and villainy and others are sent to point to them out as liars, stop them and undo the damage they have caused while getting on with new creation in Jesus Christ in whatever manner God dictates.

Proverbs 28:8-10 He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance gathereth it for him that is gracious to the poor. He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination. Whoso causeth the upright to go astray in an evil way, shall himself fall into his own pit; but the perfect shall inherit good.

In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen

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