Posted on 06/24/2014 5:30:34 AM PDT by SJackson
I am thirsty in the desert with an empty cup.
My town turns off the water if you’re 10 days late with
the payment.
Unless you plan to stand in the rain collecting raindrops, water isn't free.
I believe you were suggesting that someone else should pay for the water they use.
Seriously?
Common decency says they made a choice.
If there are no negative consequences, there are no bad choices.
What you propose isn't sustainable.
Sorry, doesn’t change anything.
If folks want to donate of their own free will, wonderful. If not, to just make them pay for it anyway is slavery.
bkmk
It’s passed time for that corporation from the Robocop movies to become real and take over Detroit.
Yeah. Because water treatment plants are free. And people need their money for alcohol, smokes, dope and tattoos .
/s
Food should be free.
housing should be free.
Cable should be free.
/s
And just who is your selected victim to be eaten by the tribe to provide food, whose bones and skin might be used for shelter for the other members of the tribe? What doctor will be enslaved to provide the medical care?
ANY “right” one person has comes with a responsibility on the part of other people who have to pony up the means of FULFILLING that “right.” Yet, NO ONE may be enslaved or stolen from to provide for some other person. Thus, we have just a wee bit of a problem with your wish list.
A RIGHT, such as the right to life, or to freely practice one’s religion, may NOT require a POSITIVE act by another to fulfill it. A true RIGHT only requires an outside party to leave me alone to enjoy my right. That is the sole obligation someone has with respect to another person’s RIGHTS.
What YOU want is the same thing the OTHER Socialists/communists/social engineers want: a free lunch that SOMEONE ELSE MUST PAY FOR (or otherwise provide). To which any SENSIBLE person will reply, “Go s&%#@ yourself. Go get a job and pay for your own lunch or home or medical care or water. I won’t pay for yours and mine, too!!!”
Sounds good to me...
In case anyone doubted that Detroit really is Urinetown.
You had me until your third and fourth items, Comrade.
Look at Detroit!!
Any democrat run city soon turns into a detroit.
Water is but one problem.
well we pay for lots of stuff we don’t want to by paying taxes
not saying it’s right to tax anyone
just that as a Catholic it’s part of the package to care for the poor
and yes, it should be voluntary
so anyway, I don’t care, get irate
none of it makes any difference
I am just sick of seeing children in misery due to their parents being druggies
my victim?
God’s
Jesus is the victim
why cable?
Just exactly HOW would Jesus be a “victim”??? Yes, He came to be the ONE AND ONLY Blood Sacrifice for sinful humanity, the only possible ACCEPTABLE Perfect Lamb of God, to be sure, but how was He a victim?
He came voluntarily, KNOWING the outcome, ALL of it, the shame and degradation, the humiliation of dying on a cross, the stigma of that particular death; but He ALSO knew of the Resurrection and that by His death, He paid the only acceptable price to cover our sins. That His Resurrection was the proof of the promise of OUR resurrection and eternal life with Him if we only ACCEPT that GIFT and that Promise.
No, Jesus is no victim, of any sort. But the ones selected to pay for YOUR utopia are YOUR victims, just as much as if you put the gun of government to their heads yourself.
Yes, I remember the story of the rich, young ruler whom Jesus told to sell all his goods and give the money to the poor. BUT this was one person, dealing VOLUNTARILY, with HIS OWN PROPERTY. It was not a general command for believers to get government to do with OTHER FOLKS’ PROPERTY what we BELIEVERS are commanded to do with our own property.
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