Sunday, October 27, 2013

Anarchist's Bible Passage of the Day

Jesus offers a parable about how we, the putative masters in a democracy, should deal with state workers.

Although the deal offered to state workers could never be honored, now it cannot be honored.  It is starting in Detroit, The state of Wisconsin, certain California cities, where the pensions are being repudiated.

Those who followed the get big or get out policies of the state toward small business are finding the program worked, and the destruction of middle class small business in USA means no money to cover the promises made to the workers who delivered on the policies.

Now I've written about Government employees and a paradigm shift to transition out of government work, but the bible has even a better idea.

16 Then Jesus[a] said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was squandering his property. So he summoned him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give me an accounting of your management, because you cannot be my manager any longer.’ Then the manager said to himself, ‘What will I do, now that my master is taking the position away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg. I have decided what to do so that, when I am dismissed as manager, people may welcome me into their homes.’ So, summoning his master’s debtors one by one, he asked the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ He answered, ‘A hundred jugs of olive oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, sit down quickly, and make it fifty.’ Then he asked another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ He replied, ‘A hundred containers of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill and make it eighty.’ And his master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly; for the children of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light. And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of dishonest wealth[b] so that when it is gone, they may welcome you into the eternal homes.[c]
So beyond thinking of their employer, the Government, as their client, the workers should think of the people as their vengeful master and begin using their positions to benefit their victims.  Their dishonest wealth (money that is taken from taxpayers against their will is dishonest wealth) is used to make the lives of those whom they will soon join, people trying to start businesses, find the rules and regulations being rolled back as easily as they were rolled in.  A fee for this?  Forget it.  A regulation on that?  Never mind.  Let th insurance companies get back to what they did before the rules and regs ruined their business model, and have the insurance businesses handle safety and security.

So the bible is a help to people now in government who see clearly they will be joining us soon.  Of course they neither want to beg no dig ditches, but they can so help those who do,and those who produce, that the economy will flower to the extent they can find gainful employment.

And anarchists yet again find the bible full of practical solutions to practical problems in restoring of anarchy.

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