Canadian bishops from the Anglican Church of Canada and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada have written an open letter insisting that the government pay everyone a ‘basic income’ whether they work or not.
Where is the money going to come from? They don’t say: presumably from people who are working. Why work if you are paid not to work? They don’t say, although they are probably suffering from the woolly liberal delusion that people are innately good and will naturally want to work to support those who find laziness too tempting to resist – like me.
What is really behind this? I expect they are all afraid of losing their jobs and have an uneasy feeling that they would be unemployable in any other profession.
A Public Letter on Guaranteed Basic Income
By General Synod Communications on May 3, 2020
Dear Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister Morneau:
Subject: COVID-19 Pandemic – Guaranteed Basic Income
We write from across our country – from the tundra of the high Arctic, the out-ports of the Atlantic coast, from French and English speaking Canada, from urban to rural, the Prairies, the Rockies and coastal mountains and from the Pacific coast; we write as Indigenous people and as non-Indigenous. We write from across denominational traditions. As bishops of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada and the Anglican Church of Canada we write, compelled by our shared faith convictions and moral obligation to care for the human condition of all.
Although we represent great diversity, we write to you because we are united, and morally bound in a singular message: Canada needs Guaranteed Basic Income for all. We need it today.
The so called Guaranteed Basic Income seems to me complete folly. It is an attempt to create a man made Garden of Eden – with, as David says, absolutely no comprehension of the nature of mankind. At least that is my view. Such a program starts well – thrills people like David and me who willingly line up for the freebies – so the number of beneficiaries soon vastly exceeds the dwindling number of donors. Result = poverty, ruin, bitterness and conflict.
There is nothing at all new about this concept, in fact it’s even been implemented. An example from the past is the Speenhamland system. Google it.
Guaranteed Basic Income for all is not a new idea. I first heard about it when I lived in Toronto in the 1970s. It can simplify welfare and reduce bureaucracy. As of 2014, the federal Liberal Party, the NDP, the Green Party and the Pirate Party all advocate for it in Canada. Tech titans like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are some of the biggest advocates of universal basic income. It is never too late for our politicians to work on such a project in the near future, if not today.
In B C this year the provincial welfare department bragged that they have handed out more money this year than any past year. Meanwhile the Park branch says “Don’t feed the animals as it will make them dependent, and unwilling to fend for themselves”. Some irony
Very very funny Bruce – and the whole argument in a nut shell!
These so-called bishops – more correctly apostates – care nothing about the Gospel or the truth and will say anything to keep them on the payroll. It is well past the time for both the ACoC and the claimed Evangelical Lutheran Church to return to the GOSPEL and if they are not prepared to do so they should be removed from office with NO severance. In fact any remuneration they now receive should be cut off.
Work hard and you’ll earn at least a basic income, guaranteed. Genesis 3:19; 2 Thessalonians 3:10
An excellent comment, DG.
Canada already has a guaranteed basic income. It is called welfare.
Since both of these lapsed Communions are in ideological (non theological) lock-step with the CPP friendly Trudeau-WHO Regime, such altruistic Globalist largesse flowing daily from Corona Cottage will be Canada’s fiscal destruction:not our strength.
Whence cometh this untold bounty? The Trudeau Foundation offers a useful lead and CCP an$wer.
“Interesting times” have come: with + incalculable cost.
Entirely right, Abigail, in my view. The western world is consuming it’s seed corn, I believe, and staggering toward exhaustion and destitution. An obscene waste of the means of survival God has endowed us with.