“This is what happens when a society is marked by Godlessness. It makes no sense. There is no moral standard. There is no cohesive, comprehensive, logical ethic of the body. It has no idea what is right and what is wrong. Science even starts to become subjective. It starts to bow to the God of self, rather than to the God of scripture, and you have chaos. And this is why Christians should not give in. This is why we have to care about what goes on politically, and why conservatives can’t give up on the social and the cultural stuff, because it matters. It is all connected. And this is why yet again it is so hard if not completely impossible for someone with a biblical worldview, with a Christian ethic, to also be on the left side of the isle. That is not saying that God is going to ask you whether you’re on the left or the right when you get to heaven, I’m not saying that this is the standard for salvation, of course not. Jesus has reached that standard on our behalf, and God transcends politics, but I’m saying if you want a worldview that makes any sense whatsoever, you can’t be on the left and a Christian at the same time. You can’t. You can’t believe even a word of genesis if you’re going to be a Leftist. That God made them male and female and that he created one man for one woman, and that is supposed to be the exclusive context of sex. You can’t believe any of that if you’re going to be a Leftist these days. You just can’t. That’s why it’s impossible.” ~ Allie Beth Stuckey
“This is also why, by the way, it has become impossible to be a Leftist and a Christian. You cannot call yourself a proper Leftist if you believe in this biblical definition of marriage, sex, gender, and Sexuality. You just can’t. You have to pick one. This is also why Christians, um, the time has come and gone for us to be able to separate politics from the rest of our lives. We can’t be apathetic anymore. We can’t be shy about it. We can’t be quiet about this. We can’t refuse to talk about the so-called controversy of social or cultural issues, because they’re awkward for us to discuss, and they might hurt people’s feelings. We can’t avoid this anymore.” ~ Allie Beth Stuckey
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“I’ve never seen anyone’s life get better by complaining about reality. I’ve seen it get better by accepting reality as it is, and then making personal decisions to make it better.” ~ Ben Shapiro
“And that’s why Joe Lieberman changed his mind on that, back when the ACA fight was happening. But the bottom line is the public option (of health care) just simply does not work. It might work in the context of the exchanges, in so far as you’re talking about a limited pool of people defined by people who don’t qualify for other insurance, like at work, but we know what the point of having employer-based insurance is, it is to control their work force. That’s why they anticipated there was a surprise in the way that the exchanges worked within the context of society. There was an assumption that companies would stop offering health insurance, and say to their employer and employees like look, I’ll give you a small subsidy, you go buy it in the exchange, because that way I don’t have to deal with any of this mess. But it didn’t happen, nearly to the extent that was projected, and it’s because it wasn’t just about cost to the companies, it was about control over their employees. And you want to empower labor, one of the ways you do it, a big way, is by not making them beholden to management to make sure that if their kids get sick, they’re not going to be indigent. The worst part about it is not even the existence of the private market, it’s that you’re not making everyone pay into the public one. That is the problem. You need to have everybody pay their premiums to the government, to make the government insurance work. Those premiums are a tax. But it’s all a tax. It’s just that one’s a private tax and one’s a public tax.” ~ Sam Seder
“It’s not good for the country (the public option of health care) because then it becomes even more expensive. That’s the other half of that equation. When the sicker people, the people who need the insurance, go into the public option, it becomes more expensive, because you don’t have as many people paying in. You don’t have the people who don’t use it. 80% of our medical costs are borne by 20% of the people. You just don’t know which 20% they are, until they get sick, and then when you do, if they all move to the public option, and the healthy people are all in the private option, then instead of people’s payments into an insurance fund paying for the sick people, it goes to shareholders, and is frankly inflated for how many people will actually use it in that private sector, and then, as a public sector standpoint, we have to pay more, because essentially those shareholders, those CEOs, those board of directors, they’re taking the money that would make the system work for everybody. It’s going in their pocket, instead of being spread around to pay for health care. And so, it’s time for Bernie and Warren to shift the debate, instead of addressing like how are you going to pay for it, because we know how you’re going to pay for it. You’re going to pay for it with taxes, and it’s going to be a net savings to people in terms of cost. But then the next step is to say your plan doesn’t work, because of the basic functioning of insurance. In fact, insurance companies used to be in favor of a Medicare expansion or buy-in at age 55. And why? Because they calculated that they could make more money by offloading people from age 55 to 65, because statistically speaking, you’ll probably have people with more ailments in that age group, than you will in younger ages, or to the extent that they have in younger ages you already see them before they come for your insurance, you can price it better, and that will be offloaded to the public sector, but then they didn’t need to do that with the ACA because they got all the subsidies from the government to sustain their business. And that’s why they changed their mind on that.” ~ Sam Seder
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