Pasadena Politics

My musing on the stimulus

It is just not Kosher.

What does Galileo, CEO pay caps, this movie, and this ignored document have in common?

Quite a lot, actually.

First a comment about the movie.  I just finished watching it and, ironically, it related to part of what I was already going to  write about tonight.   The movie is Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, by Ben Stein and I highly recommend it.   It strongly echoes what I have believed for years about Macro-evolution and, in particular, the lack of allowance for differing scientific approaches to the question of our origins.   In turn, it closely relates to Galileo’s persecution by the scientific and political (read: the politics of the Roman Catholic Church) community of his day.   This in turn brings us to two salient points:

1. Darwinian Evolution is still a theory.
2. Darwinian Evolution as a theory is not as scientifically rigorous as Modern Physics, Chemistry, or Biology due to it being of a historical nature and unobserved thus unrecorded by scientists.

Evolution, macro-evolution, has had a direct and negative impact on all societies that embrace it as a life style.   Additionally, I strongly believe that had it been popularized a few decades earlier by Darwin the freeing of slaves and possibly the Civil War would not have happened.   Now, certainly many people can say that religion has led to much violence of man against man, but few religions foster hatred for their own kindred as Darwinian Evolution does.   Christianity, a typical target of Evolutionists, can certainly be slandered for the actions of a few who, when you examine their belief, are not actually following Christian doctrine.   But it would be grossly inaccurate to equivocate the effects of Darwinian Evolution with the teachings of Jesus the Messiah.

So, what then does Darwinian Evolution have to do with CEO pay?   The Constitution.   This document is meant to protect us from government.   Big Government is antithetical to freedom and a prime example is the demand by Government that CEOs taking bail out money be limited to $500k.    If they are big enough to tell you what you can make, they are big enough to demand that you not smoke, not eat certain foods, not drive certain cars, not use certain light bulbs (oops, too late there), not dig a well here and not use your own property.    Believe me: once you rely on Government, you forfeit your rights.   Once Government is big enough, they can tell you what you can do with yourself.    Just wait till Universal Health Insurance is passed.

You may hear people berating you about holding up the budget, but they are either lying to you are ignorant of the reality that all you are asking is that the “Hard Decision” they harp about is in cutting the budget.    It is the decision as to where to apply the scalpel of reform, where to cut the fat that is “Hard”.

Raising taxes is not a”Hard decision”.   It is typically the easier one to make.

They are afraid.   You have them where we, the taxpayers, want them: cornered with no escape but to beg you to release them; to let them take the easy way out and in so doing change nothing but send more taxpayers to other States.    So let them rail at you and threaten you.   They only do so from a position of weakness.   Take them to task.  Make them make the Hard Decision and cut the bloated and obnoxious budget – not one teacher will lose pay or a job if you do it right.