The Only Job Creator

Republicans tend to care for the poorer elements of society through promoting economic policies that, if enacted and allowed to run their course, would strengthen the economic fabric of the nation thereby giving opportunity to most, if not all, of those willing to take advantage of it. Democrats tended, at one time, to push for safety nets where all of those who cannot find that opportunity will at least be taken care of in the essentials needed. Conservatives tend to work as guardians of the free market, fully confidant that if there are no restrictions, growth and prosperity will naturally take place. Democrats now tend to don the chef's hat and apron, take up utensils and cut and stir while they add seasonings with one hand then the other as they attempt to be caterers to the disadvantaged, their wages being political support from those catered to. Republicans tend to defend the Constitution at all costs in order for freedom and liberty to flourish. Democrats tend to labor more for the rights of the underprivileged, at the expense of the constitution if necessary, who they perceive to be discriminated against, if in nothing else, a disadvantaged starting position in the quest for prosperity. Republicans tend to exalt Capitalism as an essential organ in the body politic, and are satisfied with the results even if, as it is today, it has been shown that many cannot play this game. Democrats tend to take full advantage of that Capitalism while denying it to others who are more valuable being dependent on entitlements. In either scheme, the plight of the poor is not on the front burner. Theoretically the Republicans are correct but that theory has been greatly weakened by events in the course of human nature. The Democrat loses in the battle of theory, for theirs (socialism) has proven, time and time again, ineffective at best and disastrous at worst. Compounding the problem for the Democrat, they have proven to be ethically challenged as the entitlements originally meant to benefit the poor, with the advent of the radical progressive, now benefit themselves through their reelection coffers. The Capitalist model failed to take into consideration the dark elements of human nature, the machinations of the globalist (a prime example being George Soros,) the nefarious inventiveness of Wall Street and the corporate executive married to the stockholder after divorcing their employees and the public well-being. The Founding Fathers, on the other hand, most certainly did take human nature seriously in their formula of checks and balances. So, our freedoms and liberty have a fighting chance in the Constitution but our economies do not have a fighting chance for Capitalism relies on the DNA of the free market and is oblivious to the DNA of man for it has no checks and balances other than recessions and depressions. Normally this works but in this globalist economy, and in this particular economy that is built upon the continual need to purchase-purchase-purchase, not essentials but non-essentials-often entertainments. We have put ourselves into the unenviable position of needing to curtail this personal spending, knowing full well that in doing so, our economy will sink even further into the abyss. Primarily because of the fallen nature of man, albeit for differing reasons and in different applications, both the Republican and Democratic answers to poverty cannot succeed. The former because it places compassion at the doorstep of the free market formula, acceptable in a mostly agrarian society and somewhat beyond but woefully lacking in the age of Apple, Google, Microsoft, Nike and Abercrombie & Fitch. The latter because, the safety net now is used to insure that everyone has the funds to purchase these products. We cannot avoid the plight of the poor and disadvantaged, in fact it should be an all-consuming passion to address these needs. We cannot relegate them to the hope of a functioning economic model nor throw entitlements at them for dubious reasons. God gave words to one particular prophet (Isaiah) in advising a king of Judah (Ahaz) who was seeking to buy redemption from Judah's enemies. Among those words were these "If you are not firm in faith, you will not be firm at all." Our poor will not receive compassion, our enemies will not be turned away and we ourselves will languish in misery and instability, if we are not firm in faith of whom Isaiah described this way, "and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace."