It's Not for Everybody

The Amish Solution (It’s not for everybody)

1. Don’t want to buy any cheap stuff from China? Solution: Don’t buy anything. Live on a farm like the Amish.
   

2. Need to create a cure for HIV/aids? Solution: Don’t contract HIV/aids. Live a lifestyle that precludes exposure. Honor abstinence. Check out Amish values. Unavoidable exposure? See item 13.
   

3. Need better education through small class sizes and higher pay for teachers? Solution: Hire more teachers who actually want to teach. Check out an Amish school. There, Amish children get their entire education by the eighth grade. Their education is based on life’s uncomplicated needs.
   

4. Need a solution for the abortion debate? Solution: Check out Amish values. Love every child. No unwanted children, no abortions.
   

5. Eliminate the fossil fuel supply and price dilemma. Heat with wood. Travel using buggies and horses.
   

6. Respect diversity and eliminate discrimination. Check out Amish humility (demut). They’re immersed in discrimination issues every day, but they never complain. There’s a simple clear solution hiding in there.
   

7. Don’t tell me who I can or cannot love. Get over it. You know full well you can love anyone you wish. Drop the woe trip. Amish values are Bible based. Values are based on the concept of unconditional love and forgiveness. No exceptions.
   

8. We need to be stewards of the environment. Solution: Leave the metropolitan life. Shun industry. Live on a farm. Can’t leave the city? Live clean, like the Amish.
   

9. Eliminate health dangers of processed foods and chemical additives. Solution: Grow what you eat.
   

10. Stop utility companies from unilateral price setting. Solution: Tell the utility company no. Go to bed when the sun goes down. Get up with the chickens. Like the Amish.
    

11. Eliminate the need for prisons. Solution: Go with a set of values and a lifestyle that results in no crime. Check out the Amish population in jails. You’ll be impressed.
    

12. We need excellent health and excellent health care. Solution: Work. Get lots of exercise. Eat healthy food. When you need care, make sure there are lots of friends, neighbors, and relatives who will get you there. Amish all chip in to insure appropriate medical care for every member. They pay cash.
    

13. We need to prevent outsiders from taking over America and stealing our freedom. Solution: Live in a country that has superior technology and leaders who have courage to engage threats without waffling. Amish have found that this solution exists in America.
    

14. We need to promote financial responsibility. No deficit spending. Solution: Go on a cash basis. It’s a concept the Amish have perfected.
    

15. Disturbed about Christian influence in government? Our government wouldn’t exist if it were not for Christianity. Feel free to worship as you see fit, but make sure you can fit in with Christians. Abandoning Christianity would dissolve what America stands for. If you want a country that is based on your brand of religion, move there. That’s what the Amish did. They wanted the Christianity available in America, and they moved here.
    

A member of a liberal society jealous of success via Capitalism, Industry, Research, and Technology lives the hypocrite’s life when he drives a car, lives in a modern home, or fills prescriptions at the drug store. He exposes his dishonesty when he ducks down behind the US military in wartime. He spills his sour homemade wine of mendacity all over the shoes of real Americans when he rails against the same technologies he uses.

Amish don’t criticize Capitalism, Industry, Research, or Technology. They welcome modern ideas, and they use advancements that fit within their very humble needs.

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