Korean Unification: The 3rd Option - The Canada Plan

Rueters just published an article stating that the Koreas could follow one of two reunification plans, the German plan, or the Hong Kong plan. The German plan would be expensive and take a lot of financial resources to get North Koreans' standard of living up to par with South Koreans'. It also suggested that this plan would cause massive cross boarder migration leading to chaos. The Hong Kong option would be to limit migration and to limit cash flow across the boarders. A slow integration. This is probably very unlikely because of the massive need for police forces to monitor and limit flow. It would also be inhumane to make a nation continue to feel trapped, or at the least, feel as though they are secondary citizens. Two tier citizenship. 

The 3rd option would be to have the Canada plan implemented. The two nations in one, "I pledge allegiance to the flag of Canada, and to the republic for which it stands, two nations under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for most."

In the Canada plan, natives are both integrated and marginalized at the same time. There is no parity in quality of life, but parity in rights. The cost on Canadians is kept to a minimum. The economic development plan for natives is to let them figure it out themselves, there is no assistance or cooperation. Such could also be implemented in the Koreas. South Korea should absorb North Korea and then let them fend for themselves. 

Why the rich should pay more taxes, and why this is fair

Much of the world feels that the rich should pay more taxes, but few can justify this other than in communistic ways. I will attempt to do so in this short essay.

The rich benefit from public goods exponentially more than the average citizen does. The rich use public goods and services more and hence benefit more from it and so should therefore pay more for it.

For example, a business owner should pay more taxes because 1. the roads that are paved are largely to get her/his products around as well as his/her employees. Who benefits more from a highway being built from Ottawa to Toronto? Or from New York to Chicago? The average citizen or the business owner who now has a highway to transport all of his/her goods and employees to and fro?

Who benefits more from electricity? The person who uses it to warm his/her home and watch tv, or someone who uses electricity to build stuff and sell it for a much higher price? Who uses more of it?

Who benefits the most from education? Educational policy is largely driven to create an educated people seen as desirable for corporate investment. Make people hirable. 

Just about everything that the government is part of, money making interests drive those services or policies. That is why the rich should pay more for the system than the poor. Because they use it more and hence benefit more. It's only fair.

If God had Facebook, would I make the friends cut?

I overheard a girl at Starbucks talk about how good she felt to get rid of people on her Facebook, and I couldn’t help but wonder what criteria she used. I tried to think of the criteria I would use but just decided I don’t use FB enough to care. But, now I’m wondering if God had a Facebook, whom would he purge? Would I make the cut?

Well God is a king, creator and someone of the most importance ever. So lets look at what it takes to be friends with the royal family, or even just recognized by them. To meet the royal family in an intimate setting, you must be deserving of it. You have to have done something, be somebody. To meet a king you have to dress a certain way and behave with proper etiquette. There are criteria that are established on what you have to be and do to be worthy of meeting royalty.

Ok, so I don’t qualify.

My brother often purges people that don’t interact with him. What if God had that policy? I haven’t really gone to church in a long time. I don’t tithe or pray often. When I do pray, it’s normally asking for something. I might be blocked before He finally deletes me as a friend.

I guess I’d be purged on this standard too.

Ok, so people become friends with others that are similar to whom they are… Yep, still not qualifying.

So I wouldn’t qualify to be on the friends list if God uses standards that royalty would use, one that my brother uses, or one that I would probably use. So now I’ve got to figure that God would have a Godly criteria instead of human one. What criteria would God use?

Well, I was going through an old blog about Corinthians and was able to see what that passage through a new light.

Corinthians 2:

 5 Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: 
 

6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, 
 

7 but made himself nothing, 
      

taking the very nature of a servant, 
     

 being made in human likeness. 
 

8 And being found in appearance as a man, 
      

he humbled himself 
      

and became obedient to death— 
         

even death on a cross! 
 

What this verse is saying is that if God was selective of being in relationship with only those that were deserving, then he’d be a lonely God. No one could deserve to be in relationship with God. So to solve this dilemma, God became like us. He humbled himself to our level and took on our limitations. He became human and even suffered death. Death in the most humiliating of ways, the equivalency of being a death row convict today.

God was the king, and instead of telling us how to be in order to qualify to be in relationship with Him, he humbled himself and became one of us. 

Alanis Morissette asked what if God was one of us. He was.

God’s criteria for Facebook? Be who you are. Who would God erase from his friends list? No one. There’s nothing we can do to reach God. It was God that reached us.

This week, I will be contemplating who in my life I remove from my friends list. I will look for opportunities to humble myself to be in relationship. I will not be too cool for someone or too smart to speak to them. I am inspired by God and want to be like him and to treat people like he treats me.

young aa

Last night had a 14 yo girl tell me at work that she likes alcohol, the taste and the effect. She said she loves getting drunk. I then asked if she knows what AA is, and that she will be familiar with it later. Harsh?

The toothbrush commercial I want to see

I'm working on an advertising portfolio. Here's one of my more satirical ideas. I think it's better than anything I'm watching on tv now. Thoughts?

Oral B.

CEO Says the following with a straight and serious face for the whole time: 

Hi, I am __________, the CEO of Oral B.

Oral B would like to issue an official statement of apology for all the horrible commercials we have decided to release. They are devoid of creativity, inspiration, and just overall very lackluster and drab. Our commercials are everything we want your teeth not to be. If you watch a collection of our commercials, you will see what we mean. Don’t actually do it, you will waste your time. Our commercials are really horrible.

We will apologize for our uninspired television adds, but that is better than apologizing for toothbrushes that don’t work, because ours do. Our toothbrushes work very, very, very well. We will never have to apologize for that. Never.

Oh, sorry for this bad commercial, our real expertise is toothbrushes.