Rick Perry: Economic Downturn Is God’s Plan

Posted on 06/13/2011 at 3:15 pm by JM Ashby

Your Batshit Quote of the Day courtesy of Governor Rick Perry.

PERRY: I think in America from time to time we have to go through some difficult times — and I think we’re going through those difficult economic times for a purpose, to bring us back to those Biblical principles of you know, you don’t spend all the money. You work hard for those six years and you put up that seventh year in the warehouse to take you through the hard times. And not spending all of our money. Not asking for Pharaoh to give everything to everybody and to take care of folks because at the end of the day, it’s slavery. We become slaves to government.

Apparently the economic downturn, and the Republican’s efforts to sabotage recovery, are all part of god’s plan.

I believe him, or at least I believe that’s what he thinks and I believe it’s what many among the Religious-Right think. I would take it a step further and also allege that they believe climate change is also part of god’s plan, and their efforts to stifle scientific research and defund organizations like the EPA and NOAA are simply part of their self-full-fulling Rapture strategy.

If Jesus won’t give them the rapture they’ve been waiting for, by god, they will pick up the torch themselves and burn the world down.

If you are under the mistaken belief that electing these loons may, in some way, be an acceptable alternative to President Obama and the Democrats, you need to take a step back and reconsider your life.

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  • http://twitter.com/gbeaudette Grant Beaudette

    Anyone who evokes Pharaoh when talking about modern-day economics should be kept off the national stage.

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  • Anonymous

    WHAT???!!!!!

    He shouldn’t even hold the position he has now as governor, let alone run for president.

    And has he even given any thought to the idea that he himself as governor can be considered ‘Pharaoh?

    Mentally-deficient politicians should be against the law in this country. That would solve at least half of our problems in Congress.

    • Anonymous

      Doo points. So, Perry sees himself as… Moses?

      • Anonymous

        “Doo points.”
        S/be ‘Good points’, now that I have my reading glasses on..

        • http://phydeauxpseaks.blogspot.com Bob Rutledge

          No, I think when referring to Gov. Good Hair, “Doo points” is perfectly acceptable.

  • Anonymous

    Oh, and for what it’s worth, this video should go NATIONAL. This would completely annihilate his chances for becoming the presidential nominee.

    • http://twitter.com/KenInCO Ken Johnson

      Uh, that’s exactly how his loony base thinks. That kind of talk will hurt him in a general election, but I think it helps him in the Republican primary.

  • Anonymous

    Does he mean like Clinton did?

  • Anonymous

    JM, I have to disagree with you, at least your statement about you believing he thinks that. Don’t fool yourself. He no more religious than I am. He is playing a role, just like all the rest of the wing nuts. He is pandering to a very large, very ignorant audience, and playing them like a fiddle. The more votes he gets, the longer he stays in office, the more corporate money goes in his pocket. He is a corrupt snakeoil salesman. He is about as religious as Jeffrey Dahmer.

    • http://www.southwestwoodandsilverartist.com dildenusa

      I disagree. Sure, these scum bags are snake oil salesmen but in their heart of hearts they believe that a Jewish carpenter 2000 years ago turned water into wine, walked on water, healed lepers, and fed 5,000 starving people with 3 fish and a loaf of bread. Then he was crucified and returned from the dead.

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Peter-Bockenthien/1476190129 Peter Bockenthien

        Personally, I loved the water into wine. 3 B.D was a good year!

  • Anonymous

    This is slightly OT, but does anyone know what time the Republican wagon train of crazy is tonight?

    • Anonymous

      8:00pm EST. But I’ll either be watching hockey or the Indians if they can halt their death spiral.

      • Anonymous

        Thanks. Wonder why I cant find it anywhere.

  • Anonymous

    He does not believe what he’s saying. Not fully. I am certain he is a fanatical loon, as is the rest of that cult that treats Christianity as a right wing political philosophy. But he is pandering to the brainwashed masses of said cult. He is all about empowering the rich while simultaneously wrecking the economy to improve the Republicans’ (his included) chances in 2012. He’s just selling it in that same old BS wrapper. Cloak it in some perversion of religion and sell it to Americans. Same story throughout history where powerful people use religion as a tool to get what they want.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t understand this right wing “government is enslavement” meme.

    “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

    The Founders established government expressly for the purpose of securing liberty for themselves and future generations.

    • Anonymous

      Preachin’ to the choir gescove. The individuals that are against government more than likely skipped that part of the Constitution and got down to the meat of it; the good ‘ol second amendment.

  • Anonymous

    Ever notice how these rapture-ready types always claim to be followers of Jesus, but spend most of their time reciting passages from the Old Testament? If they cite the New Testament at all, they usually skip over the Gospels with all that wimpy “love thy neighbor” stuff and go right to fire and destruction in the Book of Revelation.

    It’s like the only parts of the Bible they actually like are the ones where God is the destroyer.

    • http://www.southwestwoodandsilverartist.com dildenusa

      The first 5 books of the Old Testament (Hebrew Torah) is 95% myth. Moses is a composite figure. The Old Testament doesn’t start to reflect historical truth until after Joshua and Ruth.

  • Anonymous

    OTB has the same gist on this story that I remember-
    Joseph predicts 7 years of weal and 7 years of woe.
    He taxes 20% on the 7 good years, and the pharaoh’s (government) granaries fill.
    Famine hits, and by the end the farmers are trading in their livestock and land for grain. Their own grain.
    So all the peasants were turned into tenant farmers for the privilege of letting the pharaoh hold their grain.
    http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/rick-perry-advocates-the-biblical-virtues-of-keynesianism/
    Or maybe Perry is talking about the 7th year where, biblically, you let your fields run fallow and recover? And the 7th of 7th years, the jubilee, when all property is made communal and divided equally?
    https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Jubilee_%28biblical%29
    Socialism in Leviticus

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Peter-Bockenthien/1476190129 Peter Bockenthien

    “If Jesus won’t give them the rapture they’ve been waiting for, by god, they will pick up the torch themselves and burn the world down.”

    Been saying that for 10+ years now. They’ll do anything to fulfill any “prophecy” in Revelations.