Love One Another

I hope you voted this morning.  If not, make sure you do at some point today.

And then tomorrow, I’d like you to continue with your civic duty: I want you to love your neighbor as yourself.

Voting, in my opinion, is a valuable exercise.  It is a opportunity for you, and the rest of your fellow citizens, to have your interests expressed in government.  Essentially, you are making your selection as to who you would like to best represent your interests in political decision-making.  And hopefully, the individual that is elected, properly represents you.

I believe we have a higher calling, though.  I believe we have the civic responsibility to treat our fellow citizens with concern, compassion, and fairness.  We are too quick to point fingers at our politicians, when our own “policies” are not always fair nor just.

For example, we “send aid” to those that we want to, and not always to the ones that need it most.  We provide “tax relief” to our inner circle, not to those struggling financially.  We often “declare war” with motives that self-serving, not for the protection and well-being of a defenseless people.

Don’t just vote.  Live a life–everyday–that includes concern and love for the least of these. 

What do you think?

Urine Test

Thanks, Stephanie, for sharing this.  I’m not sure who originally wrote this piece, but I’m curious to get your comments on it.

Like a lot of folks in this state, I have a job. I work, they pay me. I pay my taxes and the government distributes my taxes as it sees fit. In order to get that paycheck, I am required to pass a random urine test with which I have no problem.

What I do have a problem with is the distribution of my taxes to people who don’t have to pass a urine test.

Shouldn’t one have to pass a urine test to get a welfare check because I have to pass one to earn it for them?

Please understand, I have no problem with helping people get back on their feet. I do, on the other hand, have a problem with helping someone sitting on their rear, doing drugs, while I work. . . . Can you imagine how much money the state would save if people had to pass a urine test to get a public assistance check?