Cash Rules Everything Around Me.

I haven't blogged in a while, but something finally popped in the news lately that is interesting, and I think that people are looking at it from the wrong angle. The state of Arizona is trying to pass a law that states any business can refuse service to any person, gay or otherwise, based on the business owners personal religious beliefs. So basically, if your religious beliefs tell you homosexuality is wrong, you can refuse to serve a gay customer and it not be considered discrimination.  Of course this has upset quite a few people, including all of the gay community. They see this as opening the door for more discrimination.  If we can refuse gay people service, then why can't we refuse other people service as well? That's a valid argument. If marijuana is a “gateway drug", then this is a gateway to the 1950's, where we were still fighting separate but equal. The people making this law are white, and don't remember what my parents had to go thru growing up in the 50's. Our ADD society has allowed us to forget our history at an alarming rate. But luckily there are other time honored traditions that will keep this law from being effective. 

Capitalism!

We live in a country were capitalism rules, and capitalism is great.  It allows anyone who has the drive and puts in the hard work to make a name for themselves, and make a SHIT load of money off of their fellow man. Most of the laws that are passed in this country are there to protect America’s consumerism way of life. Don’t believe me? Check out half of laws Congress passed thanks to the Commerce Clause.  We don’t want to hurt anyone’s ability to make lots of money, or spend it.  If a company in Arizona refuses service to a particular group of people because of their beliefs, they are simply leaving the door open for another business to take that customer’s money.  Any true business owner knows that the only color, creed, religion, or sexual orientation that matters is GREEN. If you’re not willing to take every piece of it you can get, someone else will.  That’s what makes this country great, the right to refuse service to anyone you want, and the opportunity for someone else to take that cash that YOU so carelessly dropped. Its simple survival of the economic fittest, and any company that wants to limit their availability will die by their own discriminatory undoing. Our greed will bring us together. 

After this, listen to some Wu Tang “C.R.E.A.M”.  Dolla Dolla Bills ya’ll!!