"Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent." (John 6:29)
We are called to live a life of faith, not works.
Our works absent the Holy, indwelling presence and power of the Holy Spirit are filth rags:
"But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away." (Isaiah 64:6)
We in and of ourselves are dirty, unclean, not fit to be in the presence of the Almighty, All Holy God Most High. Our "righteousnesses" (lit. צִדְקֹתֵ֑ינוּ tzid·ko·tei·nu -- a a manifold plurality of good works ), our attempts to make ourselves clean, with our own means and efforts, only make us more dirty, as well as tired and frustrated with our own exertions.
Jesus has a better way for us:
"Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
"Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
"For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light." (Matthew 11:28-30)
We must come to Him in faith. We come to faith in God the Father through His Son Jesus Christ, for faith in ourselves, or even faith in faith will not accomplish anything.
When Jesus addresses His hearers who labor, he indicates those who are beaten, worn out, exhausted. Regarding heavy burdens, Jesus is speaking of those overloaded with the insurmountable burden of the Law, which man cannot fulfil in his own efforts. Jesus excoriated the Pharisees for this:
"For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers." (Matthew 23:4)
When Jesus offers to us His yoke, He is not asking us to die on the Cross with Him. That is a death, a sacrifice which only he could accomplish. Rather, He is inviting us to be led by the same power -- the Holy Spirit:
"And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness." (Luke 4:1)
We all can be led by the Spirit, of course:
"For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God." (Romans 8:14)
and
"But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law." (Galatians 5:1)
In the Holy Spirit, we find rest for our souls:
"Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief." (Hebrews 4:11)
And notice how the writer of Hebrews points out the cause of falling from this unrest: unbelief.
By faith, therefore, in the Word of God, being led by the Holy Spirit, we can do all things.
We believe on Him, His Holy Spirit is conceived in us, and He achieves all things through us. What blessed reprieve from grief and toil; what blessed relief for every sinner who lets Christ dwell in him by faith.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
"Occupy Torrance" -- Really?
In the November 1, 2011 edition of the Daily Breeze, John Bogert reported on an off-shoot of Occupy Wall street. This more diminutive, and doubtless less imposing, number of demonstrators collected along the more up-beat section of Hawthorne Blvd. in Torrance, CA.
Among their numbers were a pastor from a church in Palos Verdes (who insulted one passer-by), three retirees (including one from Rolling Hills Estates), a disgruntled student, and a hand-full of other middle-to-upper class types.
Do these people really think that they represent the 99% exploited by the 1%, a figure which the Occupy Everywhere movement has yet to identify?
At least one of the protesters was candid about the "movement"'s lack of direction. Yet the stunning audacity of well-off types hammering at greedy corporations is both outlandish and outrageous. Only Karl Marx could make this stuff up.
And speaking of the legacy hack-academics, the "newly sprouted" university student Elyse Doerflinger is spouting the same fussy, liberal nonsense which we have come to expect from University students, a larger indictment of post-secondary education at large. I agree that corporations should be paying more taxes, but what "common good" is she referring to? I assume she also wants the government to offer a blanket forgiveness for her and every other down-and-out college student's students loans. Then again, her status as a state university student automatically guarantees her a tax credit, since she pays far less than private school tuition.
It all sounds like one more example of the proverbial pot calling the kettle clean.
Judy Birch's assertion that "nobody should be a rich man in a poor country" is laughable, nonsensical, and inconsequential. The United States, despite lagging economic growth and consistently high unemployment, still enjoys a greater deal of wealth all around than most countries suffering through even greater financial hardships (like Greece). Our poor people are better off than most working-class individuals around the world.
Mr. Bogert's editorializing betrays an astonishing ignorance of US History, especially regarding the Great Depression. Not a lack of regulation, but overt repudiation of laissez-faire and free-market economics by Presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin Delano Roosevelt prolonged a severe market correction in the late
1920's into a two-decade depression. Even World War II did not restore this country's economy. Only when the federal government stopped spending and cut taxes did businesses enjoy a rebound, with a strong economic boom to follow during the Eisenhower years.
Andrea Legacki's harping about the current state of education is moot, considering that she is a former teacher herself. If she is so opposed to large class sizes, why not permit families to enroll their children wherever they please with school vouchers? Yet another subset of loud protesters -- teacher's unions -- are opposed to such reforms, which would cut into their lobbying strength in Sacramento.
As for Ms. Rachel Brunke's breathless despair, I submit that society as a source of hope simply does not exist. We have families, values, religious communities which inspire far more, and can do far more, for our youth than some abstraction labled "The 99%".
For a teacher to spout platitudes like "an injury to one is an injury to all" makes as much sense as a bunch of well-off retirees and urban professional protesting corporate greed, individuals who have no "skin in the game" of managing dwindling resources during an economic downturn.
Never would I thought to have seen "Small gathering" and "big concerns" lumped together in one headline. For the "Occupy Torrance" crowd, a moniker like "Small Gathering, Highly Pretentious, No Real Reason For Being Here" would have been more accurate.
Among their numbers were a pastor from a church in Palos Verdes (who insulted one passer-by), three retirees (including one from Rolling Hills Estates), a disgruntled student, and a hand-full of other middle-to-upper class types.
Do these people really think that they represent the 99% exploited by the 1%, a figure which the Occupy Everywhere movement has yet to identify?
At least one of the protesters was candid about the "movement"'s lack of direction. Yet the stunning audacity of well-off types hammering at greedy corporations is both outlandish and outrageous. Only Karl Marx could make this stuff up.
And speaking of the legacy hack-academics, the "newly sprouted" university student Elyse Doerflinger is spouting the same fussy, liberal nonsense which we have come to expect from University students, a larger indictment of post-secondary education at large. I agree that corporations should be paying more taxes, but what "common good" is she referring to? I assume she also wants the government to offer a blanket forgiveness for her and every other down-and-out college student's students loans. Then again, her status as a state university student automatically guarantees her a tax credit, since she pays far less than private school tuition.
It all sounds like one more example of the proverbial pot calling the kettle clean.
Judy Birch's assertion that "nobody should be a rich man in a poor country" is laughable, nonsensical, and inconsequential. The United States, despite lagging economic growth and consistently high unemployment, still enjoys a greater deal of wealth all around than most countries suffering through even greater financial hardships (like Greece). Our poor people are better off than most working-class individuals around the world.
Mr. Bogert's editorializing betrays an astonishing ignorance of US History, especially regarding the Great Depression. Not a lack of regulation, but overt repudiation of laissez-faire and free-market economics by Presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin Delano Roosevelt prolonged a severe market correction in the late
1920's into a two-decade depression. Even World War II did not restore this country's economy. Only when the federal government stopped spending and cut taxes did businesses enjoy a rebound, with a strong economic boom to follow during the Eisenhower years.
Andrea Legacki's harping about the current state of education is moot, considering that she is a former teacher herself. If she is so opposed to large class sizes, why not permit families to enroll their children wherever they please with school vouchers? Yet another subset of loud protesters -- teacher's unions -- are opposed to such reforms, which would cut into their lobbying strength in Sacramento.
As for Ms. Rachel Brunke's breathless despair, I submit that society as a source of hope simply does not exist. We have families, values, religious communities which inspire far more, and can do far more, for our youth than some abstraction labled "The 99%".
For a teacher to spout platitudes like "an injury to one is an injury to all" makes as much sense as a bunch of well-off retirees and urban professional protesting corporate greed, individuals who have no "skin in the game" of managing dwindling resources during an economic downturn.
Never would I thought to have seen "Small gathering" and "big concerns" lumped together in one headline. For the "Occupy Torrance" crowd, a moniker like "Small Gathering, Highly Pretentious, No Real Reason For Being Here" would have been more accurate.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
"Israel to speed up settlement building in West Bank" Response
After trading one thousand Palestinian terrorists and criminals for one Israeli soldier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to push the construction of 22,000 housing units in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
The Israeli leader is making this move in the wake of UNESCO according the Palestinians statehood status.
In an apparent effort to shore up moxie after one of the most flagrant acts of appeasement in the Jewish State's history, Netanyahu is creating more problems for his government and his nation, and this time while advocating a moral and legal measure in the best interests of his people.
What's the point of building a slew of housing units when they are certain to be the target of the "freedom fighters" which were just released not one month ago? Why bother setting up more Israeli settlers to be the unwitting targets of a self-aggrandizing state-like entity which has bypassed Israel in the most insulting fashion for statehood?
The Jews have every right to build new settlements in Jewish sections of the Jewish state. They also have a right to depend on reliable protection from their government, which will safeguard their building and dwelling. In a region so fraught with conflict, back-biting, and double-dealing, one wonders if the final battle of Armageddon is not looming too far away in the distance. No doubt, though, pressing against the illegitimate Palestinian Authority while handing back to them seasoned and hardened foot-soldiers to carry one Islamic jihad is not going to be a winning policy for Israel, a nation which desires and deserves safe and certain borders free of marauding insiders intent on dissolving Israel and pushing the Jews into the sea.
The Israeli leader is making this move in the wake of UNESCO according the Palestinians statehood status.
In an apparent effort to shore up moxie after one of the most flagrant acts of appeasement in the Jewish State's history, Netanyahu is creating more problems for his government and his nation, and this time while advocating a moral and legal measure in the best interests of his people.
What's the point of building a slew of housing units when they are certain to be the target of the "freedom fighters" which were just released not one month ago? Why bother setting up more Israeli settlers to be the unwitting targets of a self-aggrandizing state-like entity which has bypassed Israel in the most insulting fashion for statehood?
The Jews have every right to build new settlements in Jewish sections of the Jewish state. They also have a right to depend on reliable protection from their government, which will safeguard their building and dwelling. In a region so fraught with conflict, back-biting, and double-dealing, one wonders if the final battle of Armageddon is not looming too far away in the distance. No doubt, though, pressing against the illegitimate Palestinian Authority while handing back to them seasoned and hardened foot-soldiers to carry one Islamic jihad is not going to be a winning policy for Israel, a nation which desires and deserves safe and certain borders free of marauding insiders intent on dissolving Israel and pushing the Jews into the sea.
Suprise Announcement of the Year -- in the Middle East
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has declared once again to Arab-Muslim audiences around the Middle East that he will never recognize a Jewish State in the Middle East.
True to form as Prime Minister of the West Bank, Abbas babbles out of both sides of his mouth, preaching pious blather to the West, anti-Semitic hate to the Arab World.
Abbas also praised the kidnapping of Israel soldier Galid Shalit.
What is astounding is the brazen nature of this admission of Arab sentiment, now dominating the airwaves of the Middle East as the Arab Spring whithers into a tepid autumn rebellion and a chilling Islamist winter. Having advanced the cause of Palestinian statehood, joining the UNESCO as a member state, Abbas and his political-terrorist cronies are riding the wave of Arab discontent, harassing the Jewish state with the zeitgeist of populist uprisings that have swept more moderate elements out of power and catering to terrifying radical elements.
When will the West wake up to the ground-swells stirring up in the region? Iraq is forming a league with Iran, which will all but compensate for the fall of the House of al-Assad in Syria. Egypt is witnessing the vocal rise of the organized and dedicated Muslim Brotherhood; and Tunisia, the first nation to instigate the ongoing rebellions throughout the Middle East, has just elected Enhada, in effect a "Muslim Brotherhood"-lite cohort of Islamist who have paid questionable lip service to the moderate social reforms of the previous regime.
No wonder Abbas has become bolder in his push for Palestinian statehood and de-legitimization of Israel. If the West Bank leader did not catch the wave of popular Arab discontent, he would be swept from power next.
True to form as Prime Minister of the West Bank, Abbas babbles out of both sides of his mouth, preaching pious blather to the West, anti-Semitic hate to the Arab World.
Abbas also praised the kidnapping of Israel soldier Galid Shalit.
What is astounding is the brazen nature of this admission of Arab sentiment, now dominating the airwaves of the Middle East as the Arab Spring whithers into a tepid autumn rebellion and a chilling Islamist winter. Having advanced the cause of Palestinian statehood, joining the UNESCO as a member state, Abbas and his political-terrorist cronies are riding the wave of Arab discontent, harassing the Jewish state with the zeitgeist of populist uprisings that have swept more moderate elements out of power and catering to terrifying radical elements.
When will the West wake up to the ground-swells stirring up in the region? Iraq is forming a league with Iran, which will all but compensate for the fall of the House of al-Assad in Syria. Egypt is witnessing the vocal rise of the organized and dedicated Muslim Brotherhood; and Tunisia, the first nation to instigate the ongoing rebellions throughout the Middle East, has just elected Enhada, in effect a "Muslim Brotherhood"-lite cohort of Islamist who have paid questionable lip service to the moderate social reforms of the previous regime.
No wonder Abbas has become bolder in his push for Palestinian statehood and de-legitimization of Israel. If the West Bank leader did not catch the wave of popular Arab discontent, he would be swept from power next.
Response to "Abraham Cooper: Creating a place for Libya’s Jews"
"After the ugly spectacle of the grisly execution of Gaddafi, the world cheered when Mustafa Abdul Jalil, the chairman of the National Transitional Council, declared his country’s liberation on Sunday. But pro-democracy advocates of the Arab Spring were concerned at word that Islamic shariah law, not Western-style democracy, would serve as the “basic source” of legislation in the country."
The Jews were not welcome in Libya when Gadhafi came to power.
All the more they are not welcome now, now that he has been dispatched in a bloody mosh pit of rebellion and revolutionary bile.
The Jewish people are not going to benefit from the upswing of Arab "democracy" springing for throughout the Middle East. Instead, secularist dictatorships of opportunistic strongmen who played off of American sympathies for Israel will now degenerate into a Sharia dictatorship of the masses. Number One target: Jews. From the Koran to al-Qaeda to the Muslim Brotherhood, the rising radical Islamist hordes have been indoctrinating their people to hate the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Second group that will be targeted: the Christians, like the Coptic Christians of Egypt, who are enduring even greater persecution now that Mubarak has been removed from power. Let us not forget the believers who live in Libya, Iran, and the thousands who had fled from the sectarian Sunni-Shiite violence in Iraq.
There will be no homeland for the Jews and Christians in the Middle East, and the Arab Spring transforms into an Islamist and Iranian winter.
The Jews were not welcome in Libya when Gadhafi came to power.
All the more they are not welcome now, now that he has been dispatched in a bloody mosh pit of rebellion and revolutionary bile.
The Jewish people are not going to benefit from the upswing of Arab "democracy" springing for throughout the Middle East. Instead, secularist dictatorships of opportunistic strongmen who played off of American sympathies for Israel will now degenerate into a Sharia dictatorship of the masses. Number One target: Jews. From the Koran to al-Qaeda to the Muslim Brotherhood, the rising radical Islamist hordes have been indoctrinating their people to hate the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Second group that will be targeted: the Christians, like the Coptic Christians of Egypt, who are enduring even greater persecution now that Mubarak has been removed from power. Let us not forget the believers who live in Libya, Iran, and the thousands who had fled from the sectarian Sunni-Shiite violence in Iraq.
There will be no homeland for the Jews and Christians in the Middle East, and the Arab Spring transforms into an Islamist and Iranian winter.
Letter to Charles Krauthammer
I appreciate the context that you have brought in the final evaluation of Moammar Gadhafi's final moments.
Not only did he deserve to die, but you more merciful options that were tendered to him, like voluntary exile in Central America (Venezuela, perhaps?). Granted, his flight would not have furthered justice for the Libyan people or the world, but at least it would have spared his country much bloodshed and destruction.
It is also noteworthy that Gadhafi's demise should serve as a worthy deterrent to current dictators who are slaughtering their own people in their frantic attempt to hold on to power, i.e. Yemen's Ali Abdullah Saleh and Syria's Bashar al-Assad. Of course, let us not forget the other Mad Dog of the Middle East, Mahoud Ahmadinejad. He definitely should be shaking, and any hold on his power will be a boon for the world, not just Israel and moderate Arab States.
Not only did he deserve to die, but you more merciful options that were tendered to him, like voluntary exile in Central America (Venezuela, perhaps?). Granted, his flight would not have furthered justice for the Libyan people or the world, but at least it would have spared his country much bloodshed and destruction.
It is also noteworthy that Gadhafi's demise should serve as a worthy deterrent to current dictators who are slaughtering their own people in their frantic attempt to hold on to power, i.e. Yemen's Ali Abdullah Saleh and Syria's Bashar al-Assad. Of course, let us not forget the other Mad Dog of the Middle East, Mahoud Ahmadinejad. He definitely should be shaking, and any hold on his power will be a boon for the world, not just Israel and moderate Arab States.
Jefferson County Bankruptcy
Something is rotten in the state of Jefferson County.
The sewer system overhaul loaned out in bond measures has put the Alabama county in the red by $3 billion dollars, a sum so large that the city of Birmingham has issued a resolution urging the county to file bankruptcy.
From GOP Presidential candidate Herman Cain's sudden visit to the Cotton State, to controversial yet bold immigration reforms, Alabama has been in the national spotlight for some remarkable and devastating reasons.
Let us hope and pray that the people of Alabama will make wise economic decisions to resolve this wretched crisis, and that the fallout will not spill over and contaminate the bold leadership that the state has demonstrated in years past.
The sewer system overhaul loaned out in bond measures has put the Alabama county in the red by $3 billion dollars, a sum so large that the city of Birmingham has issued a resolution urging the county to file bankruptcy.
From GOP Presidential candidate Herman Cain's sudden visit to the Cotton State, to controversial yet bold immigration reforms, Alabama has been in the national spotlight for some remarkable and devastating reasons.
Let us hope and pray that the people of Alabama will make wise economic decisions to resolve this wretched crisis, and that the fallout will not spill over and contaminate the bold leadership that the state has demonstrated in years past.
Alabama Professor Becomes New Prime Minister of Libya
What does electricity, academia, and Libya all have in common?
Besides the fact that the 42-year tyranny of Moammar Gadhafi has come to end with sparks flying and the wagging heads of assent from universities around the world, there is the recent installation by the Libyan National Transitional Council of Abdurrahim el-Keib, an electrical engineer who served at the University of Alabama.
Let us hope the Crimsom Tide flowing out of Alabama to Libya will put an end to the crimson bloodshed which has marred the peace of the Libyan people for four decades, then for the ten months of civil war that brought down the Mad Dog of the Middle East.
Besides the fact that the 42-year tyranny of Moammar Gadhafi has come to end with sparks flying and the wagging heads of assent from universities around the world, there is the recent installation by the Libyan National Transitional Council of Abdurrahim el-Keib, an electrical engineer who served at the University of Alabama.
Let us hope the Crimsom Tide flowing out of Alabama to Libya will put an end to the crimson bloodshed which has marred the peace of the Libyan people for four decades, then for the ten months of civil war that brought down the Mad Dog of the Middle East.
Scott Brown Sets the Record Straight
Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown needs as much bipartisanship as possible to fit in without getting put on in 2012.
Senator Brown won Ted Kennedy's seat after the Lion of the Senate's passing from brain cancer. The People of Massachusetts gave their seat to a politician who has worked across the aisle on a number of issues.
Notwithstanding the differences in opinion and policy with his caucus in the Senate, the opposition, or with certain interest groups, Senator Brown is maneuvering through these competing concerns to forge long-term aid for the economic needs of Massachusetts and the United States.
Congress must repeal ObamaCare. Brown was elected precisely to stop that monstrous piece of legislation.
The American People want to get working again, and the government needs to get busy doing the irreducible minimum to effect recovery. Senator Brown is correct when he writes, "sometimes government itself is the biggest obstacle to job growth." The key word is "sometimes", a measured response indicating that we need legislators who will take on difficult issues, seeking careful and calculating compromise to effect the greatest good for the greatest number of people in this country.
Unlike most politicians whose pleas for bipartisanship merely mask their desire to shuttle pork and favors to constituents for votes, Senator Brown has demonstrated by his efforts in the Senate that he will pursue and promote legislation that protects our rights, secures our borders, and discharges the massive debt weighing on our nation while removing bureaucratic burdens to economic growth.
Though I do not agree with all of his views, and although I have not supported every vote he has cast, I know that his independent voice is not only a service to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, but an inspiration and hope to like-minded voters across the country.
Senator Brown won Ted Kennedy's seat after the Lion of the Senate's passing from brain cancer. The People of Massachusetts gave their seat to a politician who has worked across the aisle on a number of issues.
Notwithstanding the differences in opinion and policy with his caucus in the Senate, the opposition, or with certain interest groups, Senator Brown is maneuvering through these competing concerns to forge long-term aid for the economic needs of Massachusetts and the United States.
Congress must repeal ObamaCare. Brown was elected precisely to stop that monstrous piece of legislation.
The American People want to get working again, and the government needs to get busy doing the irreducible minimum to effect recovery. Senator Brown is correct when he writes, "sometimes government itself is the biggest obstacle to job growth." The key word is "sometimes", a measured response indicating that we need legislators who will take on difficult issues, seeking careful and calculating compromise to effect the greatest good for the greatest number of people in this country.
Unlike most politicians whose pleas for bipartisanship merely mask their desire to shuttle pork and favors to constituents for votes, Senator Brown has demonstrated by his efforts in the Senate that he will pursue and promote legislation that protects our rights, secures our borders, and discharges the massive debt weighing on our nation while removing bureaucratic burdens to economic growth.
Though I do not agree with all of his views, and although I have not supported every vote he has cast, I know that his independent voice is not only a service to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, but an inspiration and hope to like-minded voters across the country.
Greece Dies in the Final Scene
"Stocks slumped for the second day in a row as a plan for Greece to hold a referendum on the terms of its financial rescue threatened to scuttle Europe's grand bailout plan."
Like some ancient tragedy right from the pen of Sophocles, the Greeks are on the precipice of doom, yet rather than making the drastic cuts to save their weakened state, they continue to put off the inevitable.
Democracies seem less equipped than ever to handle fiscal crises, and the cradle of Democratic government is not exception. In Greece, like many debt-plagued nation-states, the people have voted themselves largesse from the state time and again, and now they are outraged that they have to take massive cuts and pay more to the very state that they have cheated through legal shenanigans.
If the people rule, selecting their leaders to do what they want, though contrary to the public interest, how will the politicians muster the political will to cut spending, cap entitlements, and demand the very people who elected them to get back to work, pay their taxes, and prolong their careers before retirement?
With the people pitted against the powers that be, this complex drama rivals the blood-feuds of Clytemnestra, Orestes, and Agamemnon. At least those characters acted boldly and resolutely in the face of conflict. Their modern counterparts, however, have devolved into welfare queens whose blood-curdling screams demand more money and less accountability from the very government instituted to protect the rights of all.
Socrates must be rolling over in his grave. At least he had the option of drinking hemlock. The Greek people, and the world at large, will have to suffer through the epic economic downturn that will plague the world once the Greek people refuse to support their government's austerity package, or continue cheating against it with more tax evasion and corporate sloth.
Like some ancient tragedy right from the pen of Sophocles, the Greeks are on the precipice of doom, yet rather than making the drastic cuts to save their weakened state, they continue to put off the inevitable.
Democracies seem less equipped than ever to handle fiscal crises, and the cradle of Democratic government is not exception. In Greece, like many debt-plagued nation-states, the people have voted themselves largesse from the state time and again, and now they are outraged that they have to take massive cuts and pay more to the very state that they have cheated through legal shenanigans.
If the people rule, selecting their leaders to do what they want, though contrary to the public interest, how will the politicians muster the political will to cut spending, cap entitlements, and demand the very people who elected them to get back to work, pay their taxes, and prolong their careers before retirement?
With the people pitted against the powers that be, this complex drama rivals the blood-feuds of Clytemnestra, Orestes, and Agamemnon. At least those characters acted boldly and resolutely in the face of conflict. Their modern counterparts, however, have devolved into welfare queens whose blood-curdling screams demand more money and less accountability from the very government instituted to protect the rights of all.
Socrates must be rolling over in his grave. At least he had the option of drinking hemlock. The Greek people, and the world at large, will have to suffer through the epic economic downturn that will plague the world once the Greek people refuse to support their government's austerity package, or continue cheating against it with more tax evasion and corporate sloth.
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