[MD] Dynamic Development at all costs?

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Krimel <Krimel at Krimel.com>:

> [Platt]
> You're the one that's all goody-goody when it comes to helping out the
> incompetent.
> Seems you want it both ways.
> 
> [Krimel]
> When you say that the government is 'wasting' money on incompetent moochers
> you reveal a total misunderstanding of reality. There are no such programs.
> Not one. The incompetent moochers you seem to refer to are children, the
> disabled, the elderly who are disadvantaged not through lack of character
> but by circumstance. Children do not choose to be born to parents who
> neglect or abandon them. Children do not choose to be born with Down's
> syndrome or fetal alcohol syndrome and few families no matter how well
> intentioned or well provisioned can afford to take care of profoundly
> retarded babies or those with serious birth defects.
> 
> Adults who are injured are stricken with a host of diseases and afflictions
> that render them unemployable are not rendered so because they are moochers.
> Wives who spend their lives nurturing their families are not moochers when
> they or their husbands die or are disabled and can not longer pay their
> bills.
> 
> You remind me of Jesus' parable of the sheep and the goats:
> 
> "When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he
> will sit on his throne in heavenly glory. All the nations will be gathered
> before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd
> separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and
> the goats on his left. 
>  
> "Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by
> my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the
> creation of the world. 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.' 
> 
> "Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and
> feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a
> stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we
> see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?' 
> 
> "The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the
> least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.' 
> 
> "Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed,
> into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was
> hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing
> to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes
> and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look
> after me.' 
> 
> "They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a
> stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?' 
> 
> "He will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of
> the least of these, you did not do for me.' 
> 
> "Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal
> life."

It's really hilarious that you, an avowed atheist, would turn to Jesus for 
moral guidance.



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