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Introducing Baseline Economics
What fundamental rights could accompany U.S. Citizenship?
- The right to affordable, healthy food
- The right to reasonable housing
- The right to mental and physical healthcare
- The right to employment
- The right to a retirement
- The right to childcare
- The right to education
- The right to eldercare
- The right to show compassion to a needy world
- The right to justice and due process
- The right of the earth to be preserved from spoil
- The right to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Citizenship in the United States means more than throwing noncitizens out of the country. Citizenship means a solemn duty to provide a baseline of care and services for its people, upon which wealth can build. Baseline economics recognizes that, as a farmer cares for his sprouting crops, a nation caring for its own ensures its own diverse future greatness. The alternative creates a future of inbred billionaire yacht islands funded by marooning fellow citizens on atolls of poverty.
For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me. - Words of Jesus in Matthew 25:35-36
Grandpa, what was “trickle-down economics”? A: Trickle-down economics was a repeated slogan used by the American wealthy to trick the middle class into passing laws that protect the rich from the middle class getting their wealth.
Friend: Jim, why what you are spouting from your pie-hole is nothing more than red luvin’, commie huggin’ socialist dribble. Don’t you believe that capitalism is God’s gift to America?
Jim: Capitalism provides a path to wealth at the depletion of resources and at the cost of people capital and the planet. Social changes, such as freedom of slaves, women’s right to vote, environmental laws, child labor laws, and Social Security came in direct response to capitalist consumption of people and the planet. What does the Bible say about building your wealth at the expense of your neighbor?
Friend: What you propose will never happen. Nobody is coming for my guns, my money, and my land. All I need is my Pitull and a box of shotgun shells. I’m a patriot who salutes the flag and loves apple pie! Do you even like pie?
Jim: The rich use flag waving and slogans to make your think your economic box is safe by convincing you the threat is the stranger, the immigrant, the communist … anybody but the rich.
So, Jim, are you anti-rich? What do you have against rich people?
Jim: The rich themselves teach us that wealth in itself does not create happiness, only fear that someone will take your wealth. Let’s discuss how we will not eliminate capitalism, rather create a hybrid capitalism model infused with social principles that preserves a future for all citizen. These principles will act like the hafnium rods used in a nuclear reactor to keep the reaction stable, preventing a catastrophic meltdown …
Ol’ Randal’s Hypnotized by the Wampum Beads of the Ghost Wealth Transfer Plan
These are unalienable rights that would reflect a Great America. The videos below show what the President could address, rather than feather the nest of the oligarchs.
Pastor Jim
To Be Continued … as Symphony Economics
