for people in other countries who are harmed or killed by the use of their tax dollars? As an American it seems like my country is warring in other parts of the world. It is doing this in part from taxes I pay. Am I and my countrymen responsible for kids and old people that my countrie's military blows up or shoots accidentally?
__________________ "give me a kiss to build a dream on and my imagination will thrive upon that kiss... sweetheart I ask no more than this... a kiss to build a dream on"
for people in other countries who are harmed or killed by the use of their tax dollars? As an American it seems like my country is warring in other parts of the world. It is doing this in part from taxes I pay. Am I and my countrymen responsible for kids and old people that my countrie's military blows up or shoots accidentally?
Your income tax goes DIRECTLY to paying interest on debt. That has been the case for MANY years now. Our government (and war effort) is financed via accumulating debt.
But...to answer your question...NO...we are not responsible. We are not their enemy...our Millitary Industrial Complex is their enemy. The NWO is their enemy. Don't worry though...Obama will fix everything....NOT!
CC
__________________ It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. -Gal 5:1 (NIV)
You're not morally responsible for it. Though it's your tax dollars that fund it, you have no direct say in how it's spent. If your government acts immorally, then the ethical dilemma falls to your senators and your governors.
That said, it's your government, and it is behaving unethically. Obama is, I think, a good influence, but you have something of an obligation to give it a kick in the backside. Maybe not a moral requirement, but certainly a societal duty.
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, -- a mere heart of stone.
- Charles Darwin
"I am a scientist... when I find evidence that my theories are wrong, it is as exciting as if the evidence proved them right."
- Stargate: SG1
What can be asserted without reason, can be denied without reason.
- Anon
"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."
You're not morally responsible for it. Though it's your tax dollars that fund it, you have no direct say in how it's spent. If your government acts immorally, then the ethical dilemma falls to your senators and your governors.
That said, it's your government, and it is behaving unethically. Obama is, I think, a good influence, but you have something of an obligation to give it a kick in the backside. Maybe not a moral requirement, but certainly a societal duty.
Obama is the leader of our military and our military is fighting undeclared wars against two countries. Obama could have stopped the wars his first day in office. He did not, nor has he done anything that looks like he will. He is continuing with what Bush put in motion. But he is black and he sure speaks pretty so we probably should not call him a warmonger like we did Bush.
__________________ "give me a kiss to build a dream on and my imagination will thrive upon that kiss... sweetheart I ask no more than this... a kiss to build a dream on"
Obama is the leader of our military and our military is fighting undeclared wars against two countries. Obama could have stopped the wars his first day in office. He did not, nor has he done anything that looks like he will. He is continuing with what Bush put in motion. But he is black and he sure speaks pretty so we probably should not call him a warmonger like we did Bush.
He's going to increase the # of troops in Afgahnistan....
CC
__________________ It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. -Gal 5:1 (NIV)
for people in other countries who are harmed or killed by the use of their tax dollars? As an American it seems like my country is warring in other parts of the world. It is doing this in part from taxes I pay. Am I and my countrymen responsible for kids and old people that my countrie's military blows up or shoots accidentally?
The tax dollars aren't the problem - it's who you vote for. Okay, maybe I'm overemphasizing the significance of democratic elections here, as the public image of parliamentary democracies has very little in common with the actual power dynamics behind the screen. The voter's power is laughable compared to the influence exerted by big businesses and their lobbyists.
But THEIR power, in turn, is influenced by your shopping behaviour, and your energy consumption.
So: shop responsibly. Don't send the multi-nationals the signal that outsourcing their production facilities to sweat shops in third-world countries is perfectly acceptable, or that stowing away their profits in tax havens is the way to go.
__________________ The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion, but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do. -- Samuel P. Huntington
Fundamentalism in a Nutshell:
"[Obama] focused on health care for everybody and living wages, mostly. No comment about abortion or sodomite "marriage" or anything else that actually matters." --MatthewEV, Rapture Ready
You are responsible for your vote - vote for the party you believe to do right. If you belive none are capable of doing right, vote no confidence by voiding your ballot paper.
The problem for Obama as it stands is that Iraq and Afghanistan have had their governments overthrown and if the troops currently in there are pulled out immediately, the countries aren't magically going to choose to become democratic - The rule of the country will fall to whoever has the biggest weapons and can convince the most people God is on his side.
__________________ The sixth day he told the head doctor,
“I am the light in the void;
I am who I am.’
The seventh day he was lobotomised;
The brain of God was cut in half.
Obama is the leader of our military and our military is fighting undeclared wars against two countries. Obama could have stopped the wars his first day in office. He did not, nor has he done anything that looks like he will. He is continuing with what Bush put in motion. But he is black and he sure speaks pretty so we probably should not call him a warmonger like we did Bush.
Yes. Because it's that simple.
__________________ "WHEREAS, Healthcare Decisions Day is designed to raise public awareness of the need to plan ahead for healthcare decisions, related to end of life care and medical decision-making whenever patients are unable to speak for themselves and to encourage the specific use of advance directives to communicate these important healthcare decisions."
Alaska Statue 13.52, signed by Governor Sarah Palin
"...my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care."
You're not morally responsible for it. Though it's your tax dollars that fund it, you have no direct say in how it's spent. If your government acts immorally, then the ethical dilemma falls to your senators and your governors.
That said, it's your government, and it is behaving unethically. Obama is, I think, a good influence, but you have something of an obligation to give it a kick in the backside. Maybe not a moral requirement, but certainly a societal duty.
how does one give it a kick in the backside?
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To sustain the belief that there is no God, atheism has to demonstrate infinite knowledge, which is tantamount to saying, "I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge" --Ravi Zacharias
‘If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was an accident too. If so, then all our present thoughts are mere accidents—the accidental by-product of the movement of atoms. And this holds for the thoughts of the materialists and astronomers as well as for anyone else’s. But if their thoughts—i.e. of materialism and astronomy—are merely accidental by-products, why should we believe them to be true? I see no reason for believing that one accident should be able to give me a correct account of all the other accidents. It’s like expecting that the accidental shape taken by the splash when you upset a milkjug should give you a correct account of how the jug was made and why it was upset.’
C.S. Lewis
"God is in the rain."~Evey in V for Vendetta
"Prayer in its highest form is agonizing soul sweat." --Leonard Ravenhill
"Strength is born in the deep silence of long suffering hearts; not amid joy." Felicia Hemans
"The unexamined life is not worth living". ~Socrates
i hated it when God insisted i "yawp!"
but He knew i must,
and that my life would not begin,
until i yawped.
We all must learn to yawp.
we MUST awaken the passion,
that part of us that feels intensely,
and is NOT afraid to say so
or to express it.
Otherwise we are just dead men walking.
my journal/blog:
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The Russians managed it at Red October (вива ла революция!). I'm not suggesting something that drastic, but it can certainly be done. In essence, let your government know that there is a problem.
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, -- a mere heart of stone.
- Charles Darwin
"I am a scientist... when I find evidence that my theories are wrong, it is as exciting as if the evidence proved them right."
- Stargate: SG1
What can be asserted without reason, can be denied without reason.
- Anon
"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."
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