Here’s Rick Perry, sounding like a televangelist instead of a Presidential candidate.
“Biblical principles” of money management? It’s been decades since I spent any time studying the Bible, but this is what I remember Jesus saying about money:
Matthew 19:
20 The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?
21 Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.
22 But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.
Get rid of your Xbox 360! Goodbye, PS3! Give up your iPhone and your HDTV, too.
Matthew 21:
12 And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,
13 And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
Hmmm… what about bingo in church basements?
Matthew 22:
17 Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not?
18 But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites?
19 Shew me the tribute money. And they brought unto him a penny.
20 And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription?
21 They say unto him, Caesar’s. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s.
So pay your fair share of taxes, rich people!
Perry is praised for the economic success of Texas, and creating jobs, but I think he owes the money flowing into Texas to the oil flowing out of Texas. Right now the Lone Star state is a year into its worst drought ever. Perry’s been praying for rain, but it hasn’t worked. Perry made his famously reckless comment about Ben Bernanke’s management of the Federal Reserved being “almost treasonous…”
… but he doesn’t think the idea of Texas seceding from the United States can be considered treasonous?
And oh, by the way, the unemployment rate here in Massachusetts is lower than in Texas.
