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How To Talk To A Liberal: Big Government

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What in the world do government and mistletoe have in common? Actually, quite a lot. Mistletoe is a parasite that sucks nutrients out of its host tree–I should know with how much is in my backyard. Usually the tree is large enough to handle the loss of some of its nutrients. However when the mistletoe grows so large that it takes more than the host tree can provide, they both ultimately wither and die.

The same story is true with government. In this case, government is the parasite that sucks finances in the form of taxes out of the private sector–again I should know since I pay all of my own taxes. Healthy economies maintain a small government that they can afford to sustain. However, current administrations, from Greece to Italy to the United States, have rapidly expanded their governments at the expense of their economies. As we look in the case of ancient Rome, the outcome of bloated government is the same as that of the bloated mistletoe tree:  death.

Just look at the 2013 government shutdown. 83% of government was still up and running, but who came to the rescue of the other 17%? Of course it was the private sector. Private charities stepped up to fund military death benefits. The RNC offered to fund the World War II memorial for 30 days. Whenever the government needs or wants something, it always turns to the private sector for more and more and more taxes. I’d say it’s time to trim the government mistletoe so we can have a healthier economic tree.

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When People Try To Shut You Down

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I’m frequently inundated with tweets from so-called “Christians” telling me that I should spend less time talking about politics. According to some, I’m “obsessive” when it comes to divisive and controversial issues such as abortion, and as a Christian I ought to spend more time talking about the Gospel.

My contention is that the reason why abortion has become such a large scale institution is precisely because Christians have not been more outspoken. We’ve been cowered into silence, whether it’s by the threat of losing tax exempt status, or because we’re afraid of push back, or we just don’t care. Christians absolutely need to be involved in political and social issues, as we’re seeing the tragic and horrendous consequences of our ignorance.

Now this is not to say that Christians should not talk about the Gospel–of course we should. However, if the idea of talking about the Gospel exclusively, means ignoring the hundreds of thousands of children aborted every year or pretending that the issue doesn’t exist if we don’t talk about it, then you can count me out. I refuse to have my freedom of speech shut down by people who either disagree with or are threatened by my beliefs.

Chester

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So there was this morbidly obese, possibly pregnant cat in the backyard and it was so grateful that Theresa [my sister] and I were nice to it that it wouldn’t leave us alone. She was pawing at Theresa’s legs and licking my feet, but when Reese tried to get away it started chasing her! We barely escaped with our lives!

Later we came back to visit with the cat again. We named her Chester (obviously you can see the humor in naming a pregnant female cat Chester). She was black and white, and patterned kind of like a cow. So Theresa went outside and Chester was just as grateful as ever, but then Theresa accidentally stepped on her foot. Well Chester didn’t appreciate that so she ran, taking her 150 pounds–or whatever–after her! She scrambled through the fence and then, miracle of miracles, she leaped through the air over the second gate like a floating whale! Gives new meaning to the phrase, “The cow jumped over the moon.”

The End.