Just Call a Spade a Spade

All the elaborate economic explanations, political justifications, and righteous-sounding blather that clogs our media about why people are losing their pensions, medical coverage, unemployment coverage, can really be summed up in one truthful phrase: the people who run our society are, simply put, nothing more (and nothing less) than selfish. The rest is crap. Those who support these policies are under the misunderstanding that (1) they will somehow never be on the wrong end of a cut, and (2) that they themselves deserve these kinds of "amenities" but somehow other sorts of people do not. I have news for the supporters of this abandonment of human decency: everyone is a human being, made in the image of God. There is no "other". When people abandon anyone, they abandon God.