Rev. John Gregory-Davis has an Op-Ed in the Concord Monitor that is a lot of talk and very little self-responsibility. A typical Leftist wrapping himself up “in the cloth.” Is anyone ELSE getting tired of Progressives that yammer about “wealth inequality” but have no skin in the game themselves?
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They paint the sad picture and then demand that YOU (or someone else) do something about it. And that “someone else” is almost ALWAYS Government. To force changes on everyone because “immorality.” (Reformatted, emphasis mine):
My Turn: Praise doesn’t pay bills: Low-wage ‘essential’ workers deserve decent pay
… They are the low-wage New Hampshire workers in our midst – most of whom now carry the label of “essential” workers during a pandemic. And now our health and our safety depend on their dedication and their sense of perfection and on how well they do their job.
And yet, at the end of a pay period of full-time work, these workers do not take home enough to support a family, afford a decent living space, secure dependable transportation or telephonic and electronic communications, pay for any needed health care, and pay all the other basic bills of life.
Politicians and others have repeatedly lauded these “essential workers” publicly. But the reality is that even effusively delivered praise does not pay the bills. We need to do more than thank our state’s clearly essential workers who are still relegated to the lowest rungs on New Hampshire’s economic ladder. We need to pay them. We need to pay them a wage that lifts them out of poverty, that removes the disease of constant economic anxiety, that allows them to thrive.
Yep, same old Progress Narrative format from this “man of the cloth”:
- here’s the problem
- here’s why we’re ALL guilty
- here’s who we ALL are hurting
- WE ALL need to do this, WE ALL need to do that
And not a single mention of what HE has/is/will be doing himself. This is the outcome of Progressivism: always outsource that problem solution to someone else.
I dryly note that as a Christian Pastor (I am assuming that as fact for the sake of discussion – given the continuing rejection of traditional Christian heterodoxy/theology by “Mainline Christian” denominations, I have my doubts), he is voiding traditional teachings that sin is not just an offense against God but also an Individual attribute. My sin is not your sin (even if the actual sin is the same disobedience against God). “Collective sin” doesn’t exist in Christian theology. Christ died on the Cross for EACH of us as Individuals – not a crowd, not a mob, not a town, city, State, or Country. EACH of us must individually confess our sins and accept the Grace of God given to us by the death of his Son in taking on our sins.
Yet, here he is trying to “guilt” us all as a Collective and, further, eyes NOT the changing of individual hearts (his main mission as a Pastor), he alludes to Government being the fountain to whom he is “praying.” Here’s the proof:
Back in 2011, when one of the most mean-spirited legislative bodies in New Hampshire history managed to wipe the New Hampshire minimum wage statute off the books (despite a gubernatorial veto), the economic cruelty of the majority was in full view for all to see.
In other words, the GOVERNMENT is his Judge for rectifying what he sees as “sinful.”
He further believes although I want him to show me where either Constitution grants the power to do this and why he rejects the notion that our Founding Fathers had that this should be left to private contract; I make the agreement to trade my labor for your pay voluntarily. He certainly wants the Government to FORCE some to give to others.
And the obligatory note that he misses the whole point of a “minimum wage” was never meant to provide the mis-guided idea of a “living wage” or that a family should be living on such a wage. Only unskilled and unexperienced or those who refuse to up-skill themselves get stuck at that mandatory wage level. But I digress.
Here’s my entire point: Progressives like him always yammer about what they see as a problem (and have created much of it by re-defining it as a “living wage”/”family income”). They NEVER get off their collective butts and do the hard work to either start:
- their own business and then pay their workers the pay they demand others pay – put your OWN skin in the game
- “passing the plate” to his congregation (in this case) or to his richer friends and then voluntarily pay minimum wage workers more – after all, that’s how he’s paid, right?
Rev. John Gregory-Davis will never do either. He has just proven that he is a Progressive first and DEMANDS that we all are in his political Collective only to do what HE wants.
So much for Free Will, eh there, Rev. G-D? Tell you what – why don’t you lead from the front instead of hiding behind the cloth? You do that and I’ll start believing that you may be the real deal.
But not until you have taken up your own Financial Cross.
(H/T: Concord Monitor)
