Tag: social issues

J.C. Penney Turnaround in Doubt as Sales Plummet – US Business News – CNBC

~ Pharmer

J.C. Penney Turnaround in Doubt as Sales Plummet – US Business News – CNBC.

Notice that cNBC is unable to connect the dots. The reporters analyse the three quarters of badly slumping sales with out recognizing a primary cause. JC Penney has strongly embraced the gay lifestyle by choosing to emphasize this very prominently in their advertising. Its sales are plummeting AGAIN.

Penney is one more example of a company taking a controversial social position which which its own customer base is NOT aligned.

Al Lewis, a commentator at WSJ appeared to have understood the misalignment in June, and foresaw the upcoming doom.
Said Al: “Diversity, inclusion, acceptance for all—these are laudable values. The problem is, well, I have never actually met an openly gay person who openly shops at J.C. Penney.”

Perhaps if the company reorganize AGAIN, and comes back under a new name……

Abortion Has Destroyed 117 Million People in the United States | LifeNews.com

~ Pharmer

Abortion Has Destroyed 117 Million People in the United States | LifeNews.com.

The above article  posits that the economic loss caused by abortion mirrors the national debt.

This is worth consideration by people who wonder how we got into such bad shape  and how we can get back out of it.

Many millions of tax payers, their children and their grandchildren are not here in the time that abortion has been legal in the U.S.

There is no solving the debt crisis without paying attention to social issues.   Social dissolution has decreased revenue and increased government spending.  Greenies worry about the impact of having more children, but neglect the doubling of resources burned by families which are split up by divorce.

Celebrate Pulpit Freedom Sunday

~ Pharmer

Pastors Prepare to Fight IRS Through Pulpit Freedom Sunday | TheBlaze.com.

October 7 is Pulpit Freedom Sunday, in which the Alliance Defending Freedom and numerous other religious organizations are backing this effort.

Many of the pastors send tapes of their sermons to the IRS, attempting to trigger an audit.   The IRS has acted against non profits engaging in politically partisan activity before, but generally shy away before the issue goes to court. The agency fears losing the power to suppress speech by losing their case on constitutional 1st amendment grounds.

Knowing that the IRS does not go after Planned Parenthood for its blatant campaign activity for the Democrats, and Cecile Richards current tour of the swing states for Obama, should bolster the courage of any religious groups and churches which would like to engage in free political speech from the pulpit.

Some courageous Catholic Priests have taken on the task of defending the sanctity of  life in their sermons. This could be interpreted directly as anti-democrat speech since abortion is firmly entrenched in that party’s platform, and Obamacare includes a death panel, (IPAB).   These priests have therefore taken on the IRS, and the current administration itself.

Other members of  of United States Catholic Clergy might shy away from giving their own interpretations of scripture as it impinges upon politics, for fear of  chasing off their congregations. Some of them subscribe to the idea that it’s OK to vote for a politician who supports killing the unborn, the elderly and the disabled, so long as the candidate  promises to redistribute the wealth.  This type of confused thinking  has morphed  from Seamless Garment teaching of Cardinal Joseph Bernardin.

Besides Pulpit Freedom Sunday,  October is Pro Life Month and the Fall  edition of the 40 Days for Life,  is underway.

Don’t forget to Defend your Freedom with your VOTE on Nov 6th.

Face It: Social Issues Impinge Upon Economic Issues.

~ Pharmer

Reading the opinions of people who can’t see the big picture is sometimes inspirational.   Salvatore of Breitbart is complaining that precious Republican debate time was wasted on the social issues, for example contraception.  Pharmer unloads in response:

Most people wish not to see the connection between the social issues and the economic issues. Those politicians who address the social issues are castigated, as they address the fact that something is a bit wrong in the lives of most of their fellow humans, and often their own lives as well.  Yes, P.J. the social issues impinge directly upon the economic issues.

Pharmer is here  to remind you what abortion did to social security, for example.  It lowered the payer to payee ratio. That is a serious problem which will kill the program soon.

Contraception? The “easy” forms of birth control feed the abortion industry, because of their effect on behavior, and because of the fact that they are not nearly as effective in actual use as the purveyors claim. Many forms are also related to the social security insolvency, by the way, due to the multiple means by which they reduce overall fertility.

Back to abortion: if you can kill those with medical difficulties, there is no need to develop the means to overcome these difficulties. Medical innovation ceases and there is stagnation.
Physician assisted suicide is also an easier short term solution which suppresses medical and technological innovation.
Such stagnation leads to further depression of the economy.

Divorce is a serious social issue which reduces the economic status of the family, and wastes resources through duplication of the household. There is a need for two dwellings, double furnishings, double heating and air conditioning. Divorce is NOT GREEN. It makes Mother Earth cry.
This is just scratching the surface.

It really is time for all people to get over the trauma of their personal circumstances, and admit that addressing social issues in an intelligent way would help the economy and the environment, as well as raise people’s standard of living.
This does not mean that the government should necessarily  have its  nose in very personal  affairs, but that it should stop rewarding detrimental behavior, and stop punishing those who make the effort to live up to commitments and hold their families together.