Proverbs 22:16

"He who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth and he who gives gifts to the rich-both come to the poverty.

There is a lot in this passage. You could write a substantial paper on just this verse and have a great deal to work with.

What jumps out at me is this concept that one thing is the same as the other. Oppressing the poor is a bad thing. No one would ever make that part of his election campaign, "Vote for me! I'm going to oppress the poor!". Yeah, that's funny, but how many campaigns have as their centerpiece "Vote for me! I'm going to lower taxes!"? I know many of you will jump on the usual, "But we've got to cut taxes to spur investment!" bandwagon. I'm not going to disagree with you. There are sound economic ideas in lowering taxes to spur investment.

That said, where do we draw the line? Trickle-down economics will only bring good to the poor if capitalism has a conscience, if the rich will pay living wages to their workers.

I voted for the current administration, but I don't support all that they do, and am becoming more and more disappointed in their actions. They do not have a clue what it means to be poor, or even middle class. They are more interested in cutting taxes to people that don't need the help than they are in even coming close to any kind of real economic justice.

That's my opinion, you betcha. That's what a blog is all about.

Thanks for reading,

AC