Fortunate Son
Some folks
are born silver spoon in hand
Lord, don't they help themselves, Lord?
But when the taxman come to the door
Lord, the house lookin' like a rummage sale, yeah
It ain't me,
it ain't me
I ain't no millionaire's son, no, no
It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no fortunate one, no
I am
my father’s son, but I am NOT my father.
The Hunter Biden controversy, Biden impeachment, and the Trump
New York civil fraud trial are examples of competing world views. Are children and their property, the property
of their parents? OR are parents wards/stewards of their children, and
their property, until they become adults? If you believe that children are NOT property,
then whatever Hunter Biden may, or may not, have done as an adult has no
relevance to President Biden. If you believe
that children are property, then their net worth is your net worth, and one of
the admissions that Ivanaka Trump made at the Trump civil fraud trial is that former
President Trump guaranteed loans with the net worth of property that was his
children’s.
So these issues expose competing world views. Are children property of their parents? Or are children merely wards of their parents
until they attain adulthood? The Jewish
faith has an answer to this in the Bar/Bat Mitzvah ceremony where the child proclaims,
“Today I am a Man ( gender neutral)”. The
Roman Catholic and many Christian faiths have an analogue in the Confirmation ceremony. You can NOT be a Man ( even if you "smoke the
same cigarettes as me. I can’t get no satisfaction”) if you are the property of another, including
your parent’s.
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