No Accounting for Taste

This is wrong on so many levels. The World Overcomers Outreach Ministry paid $260,000 for this 72 foot tall edifice of really crappy taste. This will be seen by many as a good thing, sadly true. That the church certainly had the right to spend this kind of money on this kind of thing really cannot be argued. I get the intentions and the right to spend whatever you have on whatever you want, its just the enormity of the crassness.

But funny, there will be not near enough complaint over this as the windfall Gates' Foundation got last week. Now what amazed me was the number of fear-based concerns over what impact the Gates Foundation could have on issues and solutions. There was much talk by folks thinking the Ahmurikan public should have some say in where and how the money would be used. Isn't what happened the outcome, or an outcome, of a free market society? Make a "good" product, market the shit out of it and make gobs of money, then if you've got any sensibility left use your gotten gain to help others? Isn't this why we think tax breaks to businesses and owners will positively effect the folks at the bottom of the hill?

The big concern of course is what Gates Foundation actually spends its money on. The poor and the brown yearning to breathe-at all. Concern was even expressed that the foundation might turn its focus to include gay marriage. EGADS? What ever would we do if money were made available to advocate for liberty, end bigotry and eliminate bias in the law? WOW yeah, now that's dangerous.