New word I like

[rniel]

I just read this in an article and it caught my attention

"faith-based economy"

That describes their economic ideas better than anything I've seen.

Since they came up with this word faith-based we can start to turn it back at them in negative terms. Maybe there's some other faith based. How about "faith-based war" for example.

[prodigal_green]

1. I think Kerry should adopt the slogan:

Fact-based initiatives.

Honestly, making a leap of faith in love or religion is fine, but please don't do that with my job.

[VOX]

4. "Fact-based initiatives" sounds good. I mean *really* good!

Good going, p_g. :thumbsup:

[soothsayer]

2. i like it n/t

[ClassWarrior]

3. Great MEME!! Spread it far and wide!!

Faith-based economy!!! Awesome.

[calimary]

13. Say it loud, say it proud! I LIKE this one!

As in ... let's all take it on faith that someday, somehow, things'll get better. We'll take it on faith that we'll turn that corner some day. And since Our Lord has personally spoken through george. w. bush, and has saved bush's soul, perhaps He'll also intervene personally in November and save bush's ass.

Say Hallelujah!

[ignatius 2]

5. I think I am reading the same article by Garrison Keillor titled

We're not in Lake Woebegon anymore.

In addition to faith based economics, I liked..Christians of Convenience...freelance racists and Newt's evil spawn.

Lots of good stuff in the article. For those interested it is here:

http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/979/

[rniel]

9. Yes that is the article I read

Great article!!

He's an excellent writer.

[rniel]

10. or how about.. Lamborghini Libertarians

n/m

[tandot]

6. Faith = Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=faith


Couldn't have said it any better...

[whistle]

7. Sort of grows on you like Adam Smith's "the invisible hand"...

...that is the Adam Smith from the 1770's and his reference to why men should be allowed to freely follow their own self-interest in the creation of wealth and economic value.

<snip>

...every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention. Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was no part of it. By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

In this passage, taken from his 1776 book "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" Adam Smith set out the mechanism by which he felt economic society operated. Each individual strives to become wealthy "intending only his own gain" but to this end he must exchange what he owns or produces with others who sufficiently value what he has to offer; in this way, by division of labour and a free market, public interest is advanced.

<more> http://plus.maths.org/issue14/features/smith/

Boy, the GOP really want us to take a huge step backwards in time. Don't they know that "fascism" is actually the death struggle of "capitalism"? Faith based economics is nothing more than national socialism.

[Eurobabe]

8. Bush's faith-based economy=

Put it all on 23 and hope Jesus hits the roulette wheel.

[The empressof all]

11. Spend all you can now

and have faith that your god (more like your kids) will provide when it's all gone.

[OneBlueSky]

12. I still like "Christianoid" . . .

referring to the pseudo-Christians who claim to be but whose actions in no way reflect true Christian teachings . . . the religious right, in other words . . .