Sustainable Development
| Posted On: 01/22/08 12:27:07 PM |
Age 61, MO |
This article is a warning well worth heeding. Deferring to the United Nations for sustainable development is like saying we as individuals are incapable of managing our own affairs. (Actually we are incapable of doing so, but we should defer to God, not the U.N.) Sustainable development is best achieved by local politics and local economic investment and management, where people can respond first hand to land abuse or pollution. Local citizens are best suited to protect their territory and impose restraints on large corporations that would tend to exploit their communities. I agree that globalist mircromanagement will result in making most of the world's citizens into feudal serfs. George Cancilla
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FAT AL
| Posted On: 01/22/08 09:18:34 AM |
Age 64, OH |
If Al gore wants to help the world's poor to have enough to eat, he can do so. It looks to me as he eats enough for at least 12 small staving children to eat. Cut back on the groceries Al and you will live longer and 12 staving children can live. Lou
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Nonsense
| Posted On: 01/22/08 08:41:41 AM |
Age 54, NC |
First you invoke the dreaded Karl Marx, so now every Christian and even the Bible is Marxist because it looks for social justice. Next you present it as a sellout of US industry that eventually sends our jobs overseas. Finally you paint every supporter of sustainable development as anti-private property and anti-human.
None of these characterizations are true. The Bible and a concern for protecting the poor has a much longer history than Karl Marx. There may be debates on how to do it, but the fact that you have to put limits on what people do for the common good is the basis of government.. duh!! Finally though there are gaia worshippers among environmentalists who see man as a blight, but most value humans and look to simply make life here work for the long term.
I think the biggest fallacy is the thought that things will go just fine if all limits are removed. The basic sinfulness of man and the need for government to constrain this evil is fundamentally a biblical concept. Ownership and private property is a balancing biblical principle but not an absolute. So government can and should override private decisions at times... if it is always or mostly done by governement, it is socialism. If it is always or mostly unconstrained, then it is anarchy like the "Wild West"... Where is Marshall Dillon when you need him?
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- GOD IS NOT A SOCIALIST
| Posted On: 01/23/08 12:49:06 PM | | Age 64, OH |
The Bible is not Marxist but you may be. God never said that a King was the answer but God is the answer. When Israel turned to a king it was their downfall. Any large government of man will be the same as Rome and Babylon. Power corrupts and the more power the more corrupt it is. The government of this nation was very small and not powerful when it was first formed. this is one of the reasons it was so great. The main reason though is that the men in the government looked to God for help. Lou
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- Social justice
| Posted On: 01/23/08 09:27:22 AM | | Age 47, MO |
There are no perfect answers in a fallen world where Self is the governing rule. In a dictatorship the rule is one, in socialism the rule is a few, in a democracy the rule is the mob, in a republic the rule is representative. The problem with the USA republic is that even the ignorant citizens vote and they vote for their selfish desires. Therefore, those few informed who see a higher purpose are overruled by the dolt. Indeed, a vote in the mind of the ignorant is just as deadly as a gun in the hand of the duranged. We will continue to go down the wrong path until we are brought to our knees, I just hope that when we look up to God there will be more to save than just our souls. John
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