Shared Sacrifice and Cooperation Is Not A Dirty Concept
First published in September 2013
Working together and sharing sacrifices are what help make nations into, well, nations. Get out of the past and come forward into the current century. Since when should providing good educations from childhood to adulthood for all Americans be considered as something to scorn and look down on? How about with retraining workers displaced by technology or jobs lost to overseas? Remember real people have been and are being hurt, their lives destroyed. Since when did trying to help them make or restore their lives become a bad thing? How about health care for all, where health care professionals get paid on a competitive basis and not by how many tests, appointments and procedures they can require? Yes too, this means taxes to help support such things, but when people realize the benefit that can be achieved for all, instead of for just the few, I think they'll see the value in those taxes.
These things don't weaken the nation, they strengthen it. The greedy want you to believe helping others is detrimental to the country, but then many of them, or their supporters, also want you to believe they are Christians, but in that case, they're either Christians or ruthless money grubbers, they need to pick one, but they can't be both simultaneously, unless we allow them to define the term. Call their hands, don't let them have it both ways.
WORD HISTORY:
Name-This word goes back to Indo European "nom(e)n," which meant "name." This gave its Old Germanic offspring "namon," with the same meaning. This then gave Old English (Anglo-Saxon) "nama/noma," which meant "name," and a bit later, "noun" (the 'name' of people or things). This then became "name." The verb form in Old English was "namian" (to call, to name"). Common in the other Germanic languages (these are all the noun forms): German has "Name," Low German has "Naam," West Frisian "namme," Dutch "naam," Danish and Norwegian have "navn," Icelandic "nafn," and Swedish has "namn."
Working together and sharing sacrifices are what help make nations into, well, nations. Get out of the past and come forward into the current century. Since when should providing good educations from childhood to adulthood for all Americans be considered as something to scorn and look down on? How about with retraining workers displaced by technology or jobs lost to overseas? Remember real people have been and are being hurt, their lives destroyed. Since when did trying to help them make or restore their lives become a bad thing? How about health care for all, where health care professionals get paid on a competitive basis and not by how many tests, appointments and procedures they can require? Yes too, this means taxes to help support such things, but when people realize the benefit that can be achieved for all, instead of for just the few, I think they'll see the value in those taxes.
These things don't weaken the nation, they strengthen it. The greedy want you to believe helping others is detrimental to the country, but then many of them, or their supporters, also want you to believe they are Christians, but in that case, they're either Christians or ruthless money grubbers, they need to pick one, but they can't be both simultaneously, unless we allow them to define the term. Call their hands, don't let them have it both ways.
WORD HISTORY:
Name-This word goes back to Indo European "nom(e)n," which meant "name." This gave its Old Germanic offspring "namon," with the same meaning. This then gave Old English (Anglo-Saxon) "nama/noma," which meant "name," and a bit later, "noun" (the 'name' of people or things). This then became "name." The verb form in Old English was "namian" (to call, to name"). Common in the other Germanic languages (these are all the noun forms): German has "Name," Low German has "Naam," West Frisian "namme," Dutch "naam," Danish and Norwegian have "navn," Icelandic "nafn," and Swedish has "namn."
Labels: Christianity, education, English, etymology, Germanic languages, health care, national cooperation, national unity, retraining, taxes
posted by Randy at 6:18 PM
3 Comments:
need to help one another & the kind you mention aren't Christians, I agree.
I can't imagine who you might be referring to about not cooperating. Let me take a wild guess. .. the conservatives?
Sounds like a good guess to me Johnnie.
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