What Would Jesus Do ?

Nowhere does Jesus promote socialism and government handouts to help the poor and needy. He supports private charity, and you can't have that without a good economy like the 3.8% unemployment that the Gingrich Congress and its tax cuts gave America and the 4.4% unemployment that Tom DeLay and his tax cuts gave us before Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats took control of Congress.

By the way, God says in 1 Samuel 8:1-20 of the Hebrew Scriptures that big government and taxes of 10% or more lead to tyranny and slavery. As Jesus Christ says in Matthew 4:4, man should live by the Word of God.

Jesus wouldn't support redistribution of wealth because it is flat out STEALING. You should be able to do as you choose with the money you earn. If you want to give it to charity, I'm sure Jesus would respect that more than if you were forced to give to charity.

Jesus would also support self defense.

Everyone is missing the whole problem.. we have no money because not enough is being put back into the economy (big business ---> to us little guys ---> back into the total economy). Large businesses are not paying their manpower as a whole enough to be stimulating to the economy. Instead they are hording the money to the few top executives and expanding their negative economic growth company to other areas creating jobs that can barely support one person, let alone a family (walmart being a prime example.. how do you think they keep their prices so low). This forces the competition to do the same to stay in business and before you know it EVERYONE is using every loophole/trick in the book to profit at the expense of anything, including morality and ethics. And everyone is wondering why we have no money???? Look at the billionaire business owner who pays his workers minimum wage to gain him money as fast as possible even though he makes RIDICULOUSLY more than anyone on the bottom end of the company would ever dream of making. So why do you think the GOVT wants to tax that end of the spectrum?? BECAUSE IT'S WHERE ALL THE *beep* MONEY IS! The govt tried to print money to give to the "less fortunate" to stimulate the economy.. but you have to fix the problem before the money would get used correctly for positive growth.. otherwise it will just get sucked right out by the same methods that are currently in play. PEOPLE ARE INHERENTLY GREEDY. This is a fact.. especially when it comes to money. It's all about money, EVERYTHING in this country is about money. You think healthcare providers care about your health? NO, but they sure care about your money. It's an extreme capitalist economy we are living in and if you hadn't learned in history class, anything extremist ends up badly. We're looking for ideal.. there is nothing wrong with ideal capitalism. Most Conservatives are playing off extreme capitalism (our system right now) as ideal capitalism, which is *beep* Don't talk to me about *beep* "govt controlling our lives and taking away our freedom" nonsense. It's like playing a game of football and saying we don't need a referee. You HAVE to regulate or there will be cheating. The game will still be played, but it will be a fair/ideal game with a ref. our economy as it is right now is proof that deregulating business does not work. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the govt is full of officials being paid off by big business to keep things the way they are. Like I said, money is power and big businesses have almost all the money. Do the math.

What would Jesus do? Not kill babies! xD Encourage people to GIVE of themselves, not have Obama take it and give it to people HE thinks deserves it.

What would Jesus do? Encourage responsibility, not reward inaction. He'd encourage hard work, not government handouts and imaged "rights" that involve the services of other people. He would encourage health workers to give of themselves, not have government micromanage them.

Jesus and the Democrats, well, they outright admit they want him to stay locked in the Church. So they clearly want nothing to do with him after Sunday morning.
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If government followed the teachings of Jesus, the use of violence would not be permitted. Government would have to rely on donations instead of violence backed taxes.

You should blow the dust off your Bible and actually read it in context as opposed to cherry picking verses and pushing a social gospel.

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"He'd encourage hard work, not handouts"

Yes Because we all know that Jesus Never gave out hand outs. When he raised Lazareth from the grave. He asked for a 1000 dollar advance. When he healing the Blind, Paralytics and the Lepers, Yes A $200 bucks upfront. When he Broke the Bread. He ask all the apostles for twenty bucks each. And when they had the sermon on the mount. Yes you had to pay $100 per head for that to. Because we all know Jesus never did anything or helped anybody for free. No, not at all. Well maybe if you cut his yard for 2 days. He might help. But i doubt it.