Does Jesus clip coupons?
Hey Folks –
Has it ever struck you how adult Americans are referred to?
Mostly I hear “taxpayer” or “consumer.” When was the last time you heard “citizen”? Do we even have citizens anymore?
Apparently, the major concerns today are whether “taxpayers” can keep “their” money in their own pocket and whether the “consumer” can get the lowest price.
Fortunately for the “taxpayers” and the “consumer” it’s been left to the few remaining citizens to agonize over maintaining the roads and bridges, preserving the environment, educating children, feeding the hungry, maintaining a decent standard of living for working folks, providing health care, and all other societal functions not connected to keeping money in ones pocket until it can be spent for consumer goods at the lowest price.
Taxpayers and consumers don’t have the time, interest, or (they believe) the responsibility to contribute tax or consumable dollars to anyone else, and it seems they are supported in that by the media and politicians who focus on “no new taxes” and the “consumer economy” – we are seldom reminded that we are citizens in a participatory democracy with responsibilities.
Jesus, who some would argue once cared about helping others, seems pleased with the present circumstances, according to many prophets of this “Christian” nation who focus on profits and see their flock in terms of “taxpayers” and “consumers.” What’s good for General Motors is good for Jesus (but not necessarily the other way round).
What would Jesus do? Obviously he would want to keep his own shekels in his own robe and demand everyday low prices at Wal-Mart. That – I must say – is a no-brainer for sure.
As I compose this, it is the day after Thanksgiving, the “biggest” shopping day of the year; the day good Christians go out to good Jewish establishments to purchase their salvation bathed in the blood of consumerism and fed by the dogma of “No New Taxes.” Ears effectively plugged by Madison Ave., they avoid the occasional citizen crying in the holiday wilderness, content in the knowledge that all is right with the world.
And if, in this orgasm of delirious consumption, the world should end - Armageddon in the middle of a shopping frenzy - what a way to go!! What a weight it would lift from the backs of taxpayers!!
Not to mention that everyday low prices would have, at last, reached zero.
- Uke Man
Has it ever struck you how adult Americans are referred to?
Mostly I hear “taxpayer” or “consumer.” When was the last time you heard “citizen”? Do we even have citizens anymore?
Apparently, the major concerns today are whether “taxpayers” can keep “their” money in their own pocket and whether the “consumer” can get the lowest price.
Fortunately for the “taxpayers” and the “consumer” it’s been left to the few remaining citizens to agonize over maintaining the roads and bridges, preserving the environment, educating children, feeding the hungry, maintaining a decent standard of living for working folks, providing health care, and all other societal functions not connected to keeping money in ones pocket until it can be spent for consumer goods at the lowest price.
Taxpayers and consumers don’t have the time, interest, or (they believe) the responsibility to contribute tax or consumable dollars to anyone else, and it seems they are supported in that by the media and politicians who focus on “no new taxes” and the “consumer economy” – we are seldom reminded that we are citizens in a participatory democracy with responsibilities.
Jesus, who some would argue once cared about helping others, seems pleased with the present circumstances, according to many prophets of this “Christian” nation who focus on profits and see their flock in terms of “taxpayers” and “consumers.” What’s good for General Motors is good for Jesus (but not necessarily the other way round).
What would Jesus do? Obviously he would want to keep his own shekels in his own robe and demand everyday low prices at Wal-Mart. That – I must say – is a no-brainer for sure.
As I compose this, it is the day after Thanksgiving, the “biggest” shopping day of the year; the day good Christians go out to good Jewish establishments to purchase their salvation bathed in the blood of consumerism and fed by the dogma of “No New Taxes.” Ears effectively plugged by Madison Ave., they avoid the occasional citizen crying in the holiday wilderness, content in the knowledge that all is right with the world.
And if, in this orgasm of delirious consumption, the world should end - Armageddon in the middle of a shopping frenzy - what a way to go!! What a weight it would lift from the backs of taxpayers!!
Not to mention that everyday low prices would have, at last, reached zero.
- Uke Man
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