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Choosing between the good and the pleasant
BY: ARTHUR SHIMKUS
Let's put a bit of spirituality into politics. In a mailer entitled "Session
Update: Report to Citizens About the 2004 Legislative Session,"
Rep. Robert Pritchard is praised for his "successful effort blocking
legislation that would have prevented the reopening of the Cavel International animal
processing plant in DeKalb."
Pritchard says "This is about jobs and choice for animal owners." It's about
choice all right. Two classes of things constantly present themselves to man
for acceptance - the good and the pleasant. Each person has to think and choose
between them. The wise person chooses the good; the unwise, through selfishness,
chooses the pleasant. The good and the pleasant are often not mutually exclusive,
but when it comes to taking innocent lives for the sake of money they certainly are.
If Rep. Pritchard doesn't see anything wrong with horses suffering and being
killed then he should have no objection to the Cavel plant being open to the
public. Perhaps he would want field trips available so schoolchildren also can
see!
Rep. Pritchard talks of "good paying jobs," tax revenues and giving the
economy a "shot in the arm." (he neglected to talk about the profits Cavel will
make). Pay no attention to the fact that it's all blood money.
Because of our love of the "almighty" dollar, no wonder we as a nation have become
so addicted to wealth over principles that we ended up going to war in an
attempt to secure the oil we need to maintain our unnaturally affluent lifestyles. It
is time we learn that we cannot serve two masters: God and mammon. "The Tao
of Heaven is to take from those who have too much, and give to those who do
not have enough." - Lao Tzu
Remember, come election time, vote the bum out.
ARTHUR SHIMKUS
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