"If a man has two blank, and his neighbor has none, he should give the extra to his neighbor."
"Now Johnny, don't hog all the toys, share with the other kids."
"For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me water, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you visited me."
"...a landowner who went out in the early morning to hire men to work in his vineyard. He agreed to pay them one denarius for the day...About the third hour he went out and saw others standing in the market place doing nothing. He told them, 'You also go and work in my vineyard and I will pay you what ever is right.'...He went out again the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did the same thing. About the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing around...'You also go and work in my vineyard.'...The workers who were hired at the eleventh hour he also payed one denarius. So they all were payed the same."
Ok, so there is a quote that has been said is from the Bible, though not actually, but often used in society as good advice; a generic quote that any parent or school teacher tells the kids; and two quotes from the Bible, from Jesus.
What are those things but the idea behind communism and socialism.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we teach our children communism by telling them to share their toys. Jesus' parable of the vineyard owner, communism: everyone gets payed the same wages, enough to survive one day. And the separation of the sheep and the goats ("what you have done for the least of these, you have done to me") is encouraging socialism. Helping out those who don't have.
Capitalism? It's working to gain more and more. To better our monetary worth. It's greed. Those who have get more, those who don't have get walked over.
Sure, a CEO of some big company worked hard to get there, but then what? A teacher works hard to learn a lot, then has to deal with 15-30 or even 200 or more kids who are often disrespectful. Being a teacher is much harder than being a CEO. Yet teachers get $45,000/year if they are lucky, while a CEO can make $100,000/hour. That's too much.
With capitalism we end up with some people owning multiple huge houses, and others barely able to hold a box.
Course, the real problem with socialism and communism, and the way they have been practiced, is that its forced on people. Those ideals can't be a form of government, none of them work as a form of government. They only work as social ideals. The people must be socialist on our own.
We need to change our mind sets to be more willing to help others out, and be less greedy. People need to understand that we make too much money. Half of the world lives on less than $1/day, and many on less than $1/year. Even the poorest Americans are rich compared to most of the world. But we're too concerned about not being able to get that 42" flat screen TV.
Course, if houses didn't cost so much (thank you deregulation) we would all be living more comfortably and have more excess to help save those in Africa who don't even have clean water. (many water wells in those places are 10 feet from the hole int he ground toilet.....drink toilet water anyone?)
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