Suzanimal
04-09-2015, 08:12 AM
What a great read, seriously. It was hard to just pick four paragraphs.
Kudos to Jack Perry and Lew Rockwell.com.
http://i.imgur.com/BSAmet7m.png
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Christian bakeries feared they’d be compelled by law to bake cakes for gay weddings. So, what’d they do? They lobbied the government to pass a law saying they don’t have to. Now everyone is in a lather about that. Hey, you guys, listen. Asking the government to solve your problems is like asking ISIS to measure your hat size: It’ll get done, but maybe not in the way you’d like. To the pro-gay wedding cake people, you stepped in it when you made a fuss over a frickin’ cake and wanted the government involved. All that did was rally the activists on the other side and they went to the government, too, and got a law passed you don’t like. Hey, just take your money elsewhere. That’s what I did when Starbucks wanted to turn my cup of coffee into a social engineering experiment. I got a cheaper cup of coffee, too, and that’s always a good thing. To the pro-religious freedom people, guess what you did? You just opened the door for Sharia law, which you said you were against and wanted laws passed to ban not long prior to this mess. See what I mean? Asking the government to solve your problems just creates problems. What is the government anyway, the yard duty on the playground?! Really, grow up, people. It’s food, ok? That’s what this is about. A flippin’ cake!
But that didn’t take the cake, pardon the pun. Then there was a Christian who went to a bakery and wanted a cake with an anti-gay Biblical passage written on it with icing. The bakery refused and now he wants his day in court over discrimination! These cakes are taking on lives of their own! “Night of the Living Cakes”! The cakes are returning to life! Igor, look, the cake is aaaalllive! This is like a pastry Cold War. “Uh-oh, we’ve got a Cake Gap. If we let the pro-gay wedding bakery bake more cakes than we can, they’ll have a strategic advantage over us! Quick, get busy! Make up for it with smaller, tactical cupcakes! We can put ten cupcakes into the same box as one cake, each cupcake independently targeted!” Mutually Assured Dumbness on both sides. Again, all of this over cakes! And all the political wrangling over these religious freedom and anti-discrimination laws have turned the whole thing into CakeGate.
The really obvious thing is that the market had the solution all along. Hey, they don’t want to bake you a cake for your wedding? Guess what? They just gave you a multi-million dollar business plan—for free! Open your own cake shop for gay weddings. You could even subcontract with bakeries all over the country and have an online business. They order and pay you online and they go to the nearest bakery to them to pick it up. Everyone wins, everyone makes a buck, and you didn’t patronize the business that didn’t want your business in the first place. No, instead you wasted the money on lawyers probably. And if you don’t want to bake a cake for a gay wedding, just tell them you don’t have frickin’ time! Tell them you’re busy, booked solid, swamped, can’t do it in time, whatever! Dentists do that all the time! So do doctors, car mechanics, and all kinds of other businesses. But really, all this malarkey over a dadgum cake?! Hey you guys, people dodge machine gun fire just to get a loaf of bread over in Syria and you guys—both sides—are whining over cakes?
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So can we just stop politicizing food already? People just want a cup of coffee. People just want a cake. If you can’t do that without a massive protest, then your business deserves to fail and so does the protest movement also. If you can’t just take your business and your money elsewhere, you need to grow up and get a life. Food isn’t supposed to be causing us these kinds of problems. Now other countries have food problems. They’ve got famines, some of them engineered by their own government’s failed policies. Remember that fact the next time you go whining to the government to solve your problems. So you know what? Sit down, pipe down, have a cup of coffee and some cake. You’ll feel better.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/04/jack-perry/let-them-eat-cake/
Kudos to Jack Perry and Lew Rockwell.com.
http://i.imgur.com/BSAmet7m.png
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Christian bakeries feared they’d be compelled by law to bake cakes for gay weddings. So, what’d they do? They lobbied the government to pass a law saying they don’t have to. Now everyone is in a lather about that. Hey, you guys, listen. Asking the government to solve your problems is like asking ISIS to measure your hat size: It’ll get done, but maybe not in the way you’d like. To the pro-gay wedding cake people, you stepped in it when you made a fuss over a frickin’ cake and wanted the government involved. All that did was rally the activists on the other side and they went to the government, too, and got a law passed you don’t like. Hey, just take your money elsewhere. That’s what I did when Starbucks wanted to turn my cup of coffee into a social engineering experiment. I got a cheaper cup of coffee, too, and that’s always a good thing. To the pro-religious freedom people, guess what you did? You just opened the door for Sharia law, which you said you were against and wanted laws passed to ban not long prior to this mess. See what I mean? Asking the government to solve your problems just creates problems. What is the government anyway, the yard duty on the playground?! Really, grow up, people. It’s food, ok? That’s what this is about. A flippin’ cake!
But that didn’t take the cake, pardon the pun. Then there was a Christian who went to a bakery and wanted a cake with an anti-gay Biblical passage written on it with icing. The bakery refused and now he wants his day in court over discrimination! These cakes are taking on lives of their own! “Night of the Living Cakes”! The cakes are returning to life! Igor, look, the cake is aaaalllive! This is like a pastry Cold War. “Uh-oh, we’ve got a Cake Gap. If we let the pro-gay wedding bakery bake more cakes than we can, they’ll have a strategic advantage over us! Quick, get busy! Make up for it with smaller, tactical cupcakes! We can put ten cupcakes into the same box as one cake, each cupcake independently targeted!” Mutually Assured Dumbness on both sides. Again, all of this over cakes! And all the political wrangling over these religious freedom and anti-discrimination laws have turned the whole thing into CakeGate.
The really obvious thing is that the market had the solution all along. Hey, they don’t want to bake you a cake for your wedding? Guess what? They just gave you a multi-million dollar business plan—for free! Open your own cake shop for gay weddings. You could even subcontract with bakeries all over the country and have an online business. They order and pay you online and they go to the nearest bakery to them to pick it up. Everyone wins, everyone makes a buck, and you didn’t patronize the business that didn’t want your business in the first place. No, instead you wasted the money on lawyers probably. And if you don’t want to bake a cake for a gay wedding, just tell them you don’t have frickin’ time! Tell them you’re busy, booked solid, swamped, can’t do it in time, whatever! Dentists do that all the time! So do doctors, car mechanics, and all kinds of other businesses. But really, all this malarkey over a dadgum cake?! Hey you guys, people dodge machine gun fire just to get a loaf of bread over in Syria and you guys—both sides—are whining over cakes?
...
So can we just stop politicizing food already? People just want a cup of coffee. People just want a cake. If you can’t do that without a massive protest, then your business deserves to fail and so does the protest movement also. If you can’t just take your business and your money elsewhere, you need to grow up and get a life. Food isn’t supposed to be causing us these kinds of problems. Now other countries have food problems. They’ve got famines, some of them engineered by their own government’s failed policies. Remember that fact the next time you go whining to the government to solve your problems. So you know what? Sit down, pipe down, have a cup of coffee and some cake. You’ll feel better.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/04/jack-perry/let-them-eat-cake/