
Journal pudge's Journal: Katrina 3
I am watching a show where Republicans and Democrats are arguing about how much they care about New Orleans and fixing the city after Katrina devastated it.
I do not care. I do not care at all. It has nothing to do with me, it's not where I live, and I do not want any of my money going to it. If you care, I have no problem with that. If you want to give your money to it, I have no problem with that. But I do not care, I do not want my money going to it, and I see no rational reason why my money should go to it.
This is not "selfishness," at least, not in a negative sense. I do not expect people in New Orleans to care if Seattle gets flooded, and am against our state seeking funds for repairs to help prevent that. I am personally embarassed that my (former) state benefitted to the tune of billions of federal dollars for the Big Dig; why should anyone in Montana care that people in Boston can get a brand new highway system?
If New Orleans never "comes back" it won't adversely affect me at all, and I do not care, and there is no reason why I should care.
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"Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed y
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Remember, Pudge started off his post by talking about political parties arguing - it leads me to believe that he MAY be talking about "his" money with respect to the money that he has been forced to give the Federal Government through taxation. Though
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nandorman is right on. I was speaking in the context of activities of the federal government, not of my own personal activities. I've written about this before, but Christ's exhortations for us to help other people can, in no way, be taken as a mandate to help others through the tool of government. Someone else may shoot back that, well, Christ doesn't say to NOT go through government, at which point I respond, true, but there are many practical reasons -- both religious and civil -- to not do so, starti