Friday, October 13, 2006
The Mustard Seed
Bangladesh, despite its complete lack of resources and many other deficits, is emerging from destitution.
But those who are blind never do see, no matter how much reason one speaks to them.
Spectator was born on third base and thinks it's because he hit a triple. What wealth the United States has is the result of good luck and hard work by our ancestors.
This generation, full of Spectators rather than dreamers and doers, is squandering that wealth at an unbelievable rate. Bangladesh has a debt:GDP around 45% and falling. The US has a debt:GDP of 65% and rising.
What the Grameen Bank did is capitalism at its finest: someone who sees a business opportunity but is not so greedy that he kills the golden goose and so losing the golden eggs.
You know nothing about my social or economic background. Nothing! Yet you pontificate on my background as if you're an expert. This is typical of you and your kind, though.
For your information, I wasn't even born in the ballpark, let alone third base.
--spec
But wait: In order to play this trick, he's had to suddenly go from this:
... the definition of poverty in the US is considered middle class by the standard in most developing countries.
To this:
For your information, I wasn't even born in the ballpark, let alone third base.
So Americans like Spectator are filthy rich one moment, then dirt-poor the next, all depending on what argument he's trying to advance. How flexible of you!
The saddest thing is that you've wildly distorted what I said-- sacreligiously equating the Kingdom of Heaven with mere money-- but you get pissy when people read what you actually say.
As far as knowing you, I know you far too well. You're a person who has so much time on his hands that he spends it posting ignorant drivel on the sites of strangers.
A Spectator, not a dreamer and not a doer.
There are more poor than in any other industrialized nation.
There are more murders than in any other nation, excepting those in the midst of a civil war.
More people are in jail than in any other industrialized nation.
More people are denied basic medical care than in any other industrialized nation.
It is not for lack of resources. If there were even a tenth as many Christians as people who claim to be, these problems could be solved without legislation.
I was impressed that Muhammad Yunas had done his good works so perfectly. He gave nothing away, yet many were lifted up from poverty. In this way, he did not even take from his beneficiaries their self-respect. The faith that he expressed in founding the Grameen Bank, a faith that his fellow human beings were fully worthy as fellow children of God, is truly the mustard seed that grows large.
This country talks a lot about doing such things, but in reality there are only a few institutions that even do a bit of real community reinvestment. An entrepreneur without equity can expect to have to borrow at payday lending rates. What kind of legitimate enterprise has that kind of return on investment?
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