Pro-Life

Pro-Life is more than pro-white life. Pro-Life is loving the value of life of every skin color in the rainbow of

CAMDEN, NJ – OCTOBER 11: A homeless man named Bob waits for donations from passing motorists on October 11, 2012 in Camden, New Jersey. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Camden, New Jersey is now the most impoverished city in the United States with nearly 32,000 of Camden’s residents living below the poverty line. Camden, which sits just over the bridge from more affluent Philadelphia, also has a chronic crime problem with 48 recorded homicides this year alone. A lack of jobs has been a feature of life in Camden since the city lost most of its manufacturing base in the late 60’s and 1970’s. While the state unemployment rate is about 9.9 percent, Camden’s is estimated at 19 percent. Camden is not alone. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

humanity. Pro-Life loves and honors all people, including those who are black, brown, and every other manifestation of human color. Pro-Life offers equal protection under the law for people of every skin color.

Pro-Life is more than pro-unborn children’s lives. Pro-Life stands up for the lives of all children in their upbringing, education, protecting them from predators in every area of life. Pro-Life protects all children born into this world from every harm, including removing public food programs from their families, leaving the family and their children destitute.

Pro-Life is more than pro-rich life. Pro-Life is the loving of all people, including taking care of the poor among us, who may find themselves without food, homes and the bare essentials for every aspect of human life, in order to exist.

Pro-Life is more than pro-religious life. Pro-Life does not ignore science, since God made everything, including the knowledge of science, technology and all matter. Pro-Life is not ignorant. Pro-Life investigates everything, including the science showing how God manifested the world with tangible facts.

Pro-Life is more than pro-only God can heal. Pro-Life welcomes the wisdom of good health, such as the biblical physician, Luke taught and performed. Pro-Life listens to all medical advice from qualified doctors, listening to accurate facts, void of political and financial agendas.

Pro-Life is more than pro-English life. Pro-Life is loving all human life regardless of where they were born on this earth, including Mexico, South Africa, Kenya, Vietnam, Korea, China, and every other non-white nation. It was not that long ago that Italian and Irish people were also treated as non-white, second class citizens and were shunned from the work places in America, the literal human melting pot of the world.

Pro-Life is more than English-speaking life. Pro-Life reaches all people of every language. Pro-Life does not tolorate prejudice against people who speak a different language or accent.

Pro-Life is more than pro-young people. Pro-Life is the loving value of senior citizens, regardless of their age, respecting and protecting them from all forms of discrimination, in the work place and all areas of life.

Pro-Life is more than pro-able-bodied people. Pro-Life honors all human life, regardless of illness, disfigurement, those missing limbs, physical limitations, and obvious uncontrolable movements of numerous diseases.

Pro-Life is more than the pro-perfect minded people. Pro-Life acknowledges and supports people with all forms of mental illness, including stress, anxiety, and panic attacks.

Pro-Life is more than pro-perfect speech in all people. Pro-Life loves and supports people with all manner of speech impediments, including people who have had strokes resulting with slurred speech.

Pro-Life is more than words. Pro-Life does not condone making fun of people who are different from us, publically or privately. Prejudice against any person, especially if it harms their reputation, is not just an opinion. It is a hate crime.

Pro-Life is more than pro-male life. Pro-Life treats people equally regardless of their gender in every area of life, giving equal pay for equal work, including employment benefits, marriage, and respect in all areas of life.

Pro-Life is more than pro-professional life. Pro-Life supports all human life, including those who have lost their professions and are out of work. Pro-Life believes that there ought not be a financial floor any human being can fall beneath, nor would Pro-Life tell people who have tried and failed through no fault of their own to obtain work to,”Go get a job,” which is a judgment against such people. Jesus tells us in Matthew 7:1 “Stop judging!”

Pro-Life does not end with children in utero. Pro-Life believes this is only the beginning of their lives. Anyone voting for Pro-Life regards the value and God-given right to life in all of life, not just part of it.

There is more to thinking, speaking and acting Pro-Life than abortion. Pro-Life would not abort funds, homes, food, clothing, education and everything else mentioned in this post. Everyone declaring that they are Pro-Life needs to step up in all areas covered by the words, Pro-Life, without exceptions that only serve to show their prejudice.

Bishop Bernard J. Flanagan and me around 1973 at a Pro-Life Meeting of the Worcester Diocese

If people do not agree with these Pro-Life Statements, they ought not call themselves Pro-Life. I attended one of the first Pro-Life meetings with the late Bishop Bernard J. Flanagan in the Worcester Diocese when abortion first became legal.

St Francis showed us how to reverence all of life. He was Pro-Life not only for human beings, but also for all animals and everything in nature, and would never have stood by silently on the subjects of global warming and climate change. There is more to what the words “Pro-Life” mean.

Namaste

Trickle Down Economics

When critical mass in any energy form is reached, the ebb and flow of what had been working switches to the other side. It is a natural occurrence when too much energy pushes from the

Critical mass switches “Trickle Down Economics” to “Trickle Up Economics.”

impetus that has been building. This is happening particularly in USA economics, and the world economic stage as well. Trickle down economics is supposed to work because if the wealthy of the land get wealthier, it is assumed that they will share the benefit based on this premise. In this country, what has been happening is that the middle class has been bailing out the higher class of the wealthy with no reciprocation, except for their outstretched wealthy hand begging for more, more, more. This is Trickle Up Economics. It is an automatic response.

This is because the basic principle of trickle down economics is based on inequity. It does not work. It works in theory, but it has never worked in the history of this country. Now we are past the point of critical mass. The poor and those people barely getting by in the middle class have lost faith with the high class wealthiest among us, because they have had their faith broken by the extreme inequity, with no return for their dollars.

The infinity loop is pictured as a figure 8 lying on its side. You might think of this as the CC Loop, centrifugal forces on one side and centripetal forces on the other, or the yin/yang principle, a child’s see saw, or any energy balancing system based on give and take, ebb and flow, where there is a natural rhythm. When the pressure of either side is too great, there is an automatic switch to the other side. This is where we are now in the economy.

The switch to Trickle Up Economics began with the bail outs for the rich and wealthy. This article is not saying the bail outs should not have happened. I believe it was crucial to bail out the auto industry, for example. What I am saying here, energetically speaking, is that we are past the point of balance and equity on many levels. Corporations are making record profits, yet are laying off their workers and making the workers who are left to do two, three, four or more times the jobs. Quality suffers in the process, just look at the newspaper industry. It became more expedient to put a product out first despite errors, even online.

We are now operating on the basis of Trickle Up Economics. How is it working for you? Evidently the wealthiest rich apparently have no problem duping the poor among us into thinking that giving tax breaks to the wealthy corporations will somehow magically help them, when it has never helped them before.

Based on the concept that trickle down economics works, which it has never worked, we will begin to see, as we are seeing now where the low and middle classes bail out the rich. This is truly an unjust state of affairs.

Trickle Up Economics works best when there are inequitable tax rates, off shore bank accounts so the rich do not have to pay taxes at all, and little attention paid to bolstering the middle class.

We need to integrate our humanity with our emotional and spiritual selves, which includes living fully in the present moment, with its economic concerns.

Namaste