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I’m at an age when I could still be a candidate for the Emergent church, and many of peers are. However, I think I want off the “how do we make Jesus cool” train since it seems downright unnecessary to me. I can still wear my hipster glasses, my ironic smoking jacket, and even my vest and still find Jesus in word and Sacrament instead of hopping on the next trend that is reaction to the last trend.

Also, to hell with TBN.

In other words, you can leave the American public alone to fend for themselves unless a REAL crisis occurs (don’t ask Obama for a definition of a crisis) OR you can “fix” every little thing and tell the American public that it’s good for them. The trouble is that when you “fix” something, it often breaks something else. The only way to proceed is then to “fix” that new problem. And then “fix” the next problem. And the next. And on and on forever. This is what we have now, the government keeps trying to “fix” everything.

It is like the son who has the football pads, who now can’t hit the ball because he has no dexterity and so his mother gives him a big hockey stick so he can hit the golf ball easier. Of course, since the hockey stick wasn’t designed to hit a golf ball, the ball ricochets off a tree and hits him in the head. And then the mother yells, “SEE! I told you so!”, as if to say that her precautions were then justified.

She is just as surprised as the crowd of people watching.

Ultimately, the problem now isn’t so much that government keeps breaking things, as much as it is that the American public now has so many problems to keep track of (i.e. racism, poverty, corporate greed, foreign policy, drugs, immigration, sexism, gay marriage, climate change, Michael Jackson’s death, sexting, etc) that we have a shortage of politicians to dedicate their time and public offices to fix them all. Something is always falling by the way side. And then the activists who support that something call out for being “stepped on” or silenced.

America just simply doesn’t have enough resources to fix everything.

On the moral front, is the latter somehow hurting the former?

And economically speaking, there’s no real way to measure the output of a teacher, so we can’t compare in precise terms. But the price of an average teacher’s labor tells me that society generally does not think an average education is as productive as a well-managed hedge fund. But you’re really comparing apples to oranges.

There are many orders of magnitude of difference between a teacher’s salary and the income of a hedge fund manager, and it can’t be justified ethically or economically. It’s just wrong. Zakaria makes it seem justifiable by comparing phrases and neutral concepts, not numbers.