What Do I Want From Our Government?
















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5 Responses to What Do I Want From Our Government?

  1. joepote01 says:

    I like how you think, Jeff.

    Thanks for sharing!


  2. Jamie Quinlan says:

    Jeff, I like your approach to politics in the sense that you are trying to find a common ground. However, I think that is the problem with government–there is no common ground. Even looking at the two things you want out of government, you have contrasting desires. You say that the government should be limited so that people are responsible for themselves…but then you say that people are “due” a certain amount, and this is the responsibility of others. What are people owed by the government, and what are people owed by society (what you claim is the responsibility of Christians)?

    You argue that public education is an example of a common goal….when many in the US would disagree with this. For many, they do not want public education and therefore do not want to pay taxes for public education, but they are forced to do so. On the other hand, you have people who want the same quality of education for everyone, which is essentially the goal of public education. In the current state, public education is the common ground, and there are so many horrible flaws with the system because the quality of the school is comparable to the quality of the life where the school is located. What is your view here? That the government would not be restricted and continue to put money into the public education system in the failing attempt to rectify problems that arise from children who are being brought up in poverty, in broken homes, in an environment of drugs and violence? That wealthier citizens pay more money to poorer areas for a free public education? Just wondering what the libertarian view on this is as well.

    Lastly, on the note of abortion, I don’t necessarily agree with what you are saying. I have done a lot of research on abortion and the legal history of it, and the issue with abortion has nothing to do with the propaganda regarding a woman’s choice. It has nothing to do with whether someone really needs an abortion or if they are a bad person for wanting an abortion. It has nothing to do with our opinions of the people getting abortions. Honestly, even mentioning these things is giving strength to the agenda of the liberal media, pitting people against each other for disagreeing with other people’s decisions. The issue is that when a fetus is recognized as a human life, they are granted civil rights, and abortion is thereby murder. As a Christian, there should be no question in the value of the fetus’ life. But as a human being, science has yet to prove when a fetus “becomes a human life”. That is why the Supreme Court has applied unalienable rights to a human at the 26-week-mark. As a voter, yes you can morally disagree with abortion, yet understand why women want or feel like they need to abort their babies. But that’s where a “common ground” is ambiguous. Because people will value their life over the life of their child even if science proves that life begins at conception. If you want to talk about abortion, feel free to bring it up with me at any time! I am super passionate about informing people of the FACTS regarding abortion, not OPINIONS or FEELINGS.

    I apologize for rambling, but I feel like you’re trying to create this clear dichotomy in politics, as if there actually is a solution. All government is corrupt because people are sinful, and I believe there are evil powers at play that will eventually bring our world into the times described in Revelation. In my opinion, it’s not our responsibility to figure out everything in the world. Our responsibility is to find the things or people that press on our hearts and advocate for them. So instead of trying to find broad solutions, maybe focus on a few policy issues that you are unfamiliar with (but affect you, your kids, your family, those close to God’s heart) and really dig deep! Would love to actually have these convos in real life, not just over the internet 😉


    • Jeff S says:

      Education is a common goal, whether people want it or not. We all benefit from having an educated population. I don’t agree that everyone should have the same education, but basic education providing for an educated populace strengthens everyone.

      Regarding abortion, the common ground is very real, that we can reduce abortions despite the legal status, and there there are many on both sides of the isle who would agree with the steps we can take to do this. Not prohibition, but providing a community around women that is supportive and enabling for them to choose life. Choosing to expend energy on legal battles in spite of these other steps indicates more of a desire to be right than love for women or the unborn.

      I don’t understand why you believe the value of a fetus life is a Christian/Non Christian issue. The idea of life beginning at conception is a recent one, not historical within the church, and quite frankly, not easily supportable from scripture. Scripture actually implies that the process of becoming human takes place in the womb, not before the womb, but it does so in a poetic fashion and the point of that psalm is not to pinpoint the moment life begins. But if it were used in that way, it would decidedly suggest life begins at some point after conception. If you believe life begins at conception, that is reasonable, but I don’t see how you can cite it as a Christian belief. If life begins at conception and that life is the same value as person who is born, then protecting that life becomes a Christian issue, but life at conception has very little scriptural evidence.

      You may not believe that abortion has anything to do with a woman’s choice, but in fact it does. You cannot simply write it off as propaganda. It’s a big deal when you force a woman to do something, or not do something, with her own body. I’m aware that what I said angers pro-life advocates. You might be surprised to find I get no love from pro-choice either. And that is what frustrates me- everyone is so dug into their own position they don’t even listen. You are convinced there is no “choice” issue regarding abortion. Well, there is. It’s violating for someone to tell you what you must do with your own body. You cannot just decide that that issue is unimportant. Just like someone who is pro choice cannot decide the value of the unborn life is unimportant. Saying this is not propagating a liberal agenda. It’s listening and empathizing with another persons valuable point of view. We cannot be so fearful of other perspectives that we write them off as “agenda”.

      And I’ll state it again- there are loads of things that you and someone who is pro choice can agree on, can work toward, that would result in less abortions, but they don’t happen because you’d rather wage the legal battle you won’t win. I don’t see the upside to this. If you really believe that all pro-choice advocate just love murdering babies, then you have a very limited view of other people’s perspectives. They don’t want that. No one likes the idea of murdering babies, and saying they do just stops any common ground from happening.

      Regarding broad solutions, I’m not looking for those. I actually do look to dive deep- but there’s little opportunity for diving deep when people form sides and fail to look to the value that can be found in one another.


    • Jeff S says:

      On further clarification- I do not identify as a Libertarian, so many of my views do not align with Libertarians.


  3. Jeff S says:


    Sorry, meant to answer this. People are “due” things required for basic human dignity. The right to not starve. The right to have human connection. This concept is all over scripture (the responsibility to do “justice”, which means punishing the wicked and elevating the weak by giving them their “due” as human beings with dignity, is listed over 100 times in the Old Testament). Quite frankly, I don’t see how any Christian would deny this is a common responsibility we have in a society of people created in the image of God.


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