tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post6210810723703562734..comments2024-03-29T05:22:26.118-04:00Comments on Daffey Thoughts: The fate of the GOP and its tax cuts hangs in the balanceDavid Griffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06629314279592541401noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-67367295911720595972018-01-25T22:27:37.620-05:002018-01-25T22:27:37.620-05:00Ok, let me just say that sucks and I would definit...Ok, let me just say that sucks and I would definitely recommend your wife go get another job or push back for the raise she should have.<br /><br />NOW...<br /><br />Well I'm going to shorten a long thought into a parable. I've seen it said, and it's pretty accurate IMHO, "greed is to capitalism as lust is to marriage."<br /><br />So let's run with that metaphor for a minute. We've seen for decades now the consequences of the dismantling of the societal underpinning of the Christian & Catholic view of marriage, right? Now you and I both agree that there have been a LOT of downsides to this. We might even go so far as to call it a disaster, right? So imagine if someone said, "Ok, I'll give this Catholic marriage thing a try. But if I don't lose weight in the first year - or if my wife doesn't cook me dinner every night - then Catholicism has failed to deliver on its promises."<br /><br />Now from there you can hopefully see some of the complication in this issue. Surely we can all agree that the Christian & Catholic model of marriage and relationships doesn't guarantee happiness or promise utopia, right? But what would you and I tell this hypothetical example guy? "it's <i>better</i> than the alternative. the odds favor you having a better life this way. it won't be perfect, but it will be good." Or something along those lines, right?<br /><br />Yeah, that's shitty of the company and I'd look for work elsewhere. But it should no more invalidate capitalism than one abusive marriage should invalidate that institution. But I will say that I do get that it would be hard to believe in marriage if you were stuck in a bad one.<br /><br /><br /><br />I also must say - not talking about you here this is just a bit of venting - that it does bug me when I see online people who will make any excuse for socialism even as it wrecks country after country (or the countries that did have it phase it out). Yet if even the SLIGHTEST thing goes wrong with capitalism, it's time to burn it all down.Nate Winchesterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00630873800235819300noreply@blogger.com