What is not to understand?
1.
The Unites States,
for the past 50 years or longer has pursued an expanded worldview of Manifest Destiny
in which it is the savior of the world: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_destiny. It should be clear to Christians that the
substitution of the Unites States for the LORD Jesus Christ is a very wicked,
anti-Christ, and anti-Christian thing to do.
It should be equally clear that in support of this doctrine that we reach
out in care to other nations, and even animals, while people are going hungry
on our own doorsteps. The adage, “Cast
out the moat in your own eye first,” comes to mind. The point is not to change and neglect a
different part of these obligations. The
point is that we must care for all: hungry on our own doorstep, the foreigner
and stranger, as well as created animals, plants, rocks, and rills. Such care is to be extended, not coerced, in
the name of the risen Jesus Christ who offers freedom and peace to all. The Unites States does not offer freedom and
peace to all: it offers capitalism and economic slavery under the guise of a
false-democracy. It should be clear from
the Ancient Greeks that the extension of a pseudo-democracy was merely a
political-ploy to put a corrupt man in office: it resulted in a loss of, not an
increase in freedom, and ultimately led to the downfall of Greece to the Roman
Republic. There is really no point in
protesting that democracy is better: historically, democracy always
deteriorates into anarchy and autocracy.
The Republic prevails because it is a better deal. Even some monarchies are preferable to the
sort of autocracy that democracy spawns: Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin, for
example. The Unites States, in extending
welfare, is simply playing with political manipulation. The Church, on the other hand, in relationship
with Jesus Christ, through the Holy Ghost, is merely doing its duty.
2.
There are not
enough jobs to go around. When the
family farm was the predominant economic structure, there was always work to
do. The home was the castle, the family
was the organization, and people could not be fired. In our society, we are now dependent on jobs,
get fired and poverty, even famine immediately threaten. On the farm, if you were sensible enough to
avoid mortgages and other debt, even in a bad year, you would probably still
have: a roof, food, work, and a barn to shelter strangers. The link between farms, jobs, and debt
slavery should be obvious and not need development here. The necessary jobs, through the combined
efforts of government and industry have largely been deported through the guise
of a global economy. Ostensibly, in a
global economy, jobs like making shoes and welding could be farmed out to third-world
countries while jobs requiring more difficult technical skills would
remain. Now we live with the bitter
irony that the technical jobs are all farmed out: engineers can’t find work, employers
can’t find skilled welders, and Keds cost $100 (This is a joke. Nobody wears sneakers anymore. Everybody needs expensive specialized athletic
shoes. Keds retail between $20 and $100.) The complaint about illegal immigrant labor
is also a red herring: we wanted and demanded illegal immigrant labor ever
since I was a small boy: but now in economic downturn we need a scapegoat. How can this be? Downturns occur naturally. Some years we just don’t get enough rain,
which is why we have barns and root-cellars.
The real reason that this is such a disaster is that we have not been
dealing with it one year at a time: we’ve been postponing the inevitable by
debt. Everything is mortgaged from
lunch, to gasoline, to wars. The irony
of putting lunch on a credit card ought to grip us all: it just doesn’t. People ought to be able to get jobs and do
them. A thriving economy has a surplus
of jobs, everyone who is able works, everyone has a place of respect at the
table.
3.
Nazi Germany and
euthanasia. That’s what my doctor
said. He had a point.
4.
Chomsky’s point
that we really live in a Totalitarian Culture is well taken: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcSBqkLDxmo. Our government lies to us. Our government manipulates us with
propaganda: we are told what to think, when to think, and how to think. God and the Bible are no longer central to
our thought processes. The Decalogue,
which is designed to abolish slavery among the people of God forever, is now
reduced to the ten suggestions. Our
education system, which was originally considered a way to defeat evil (The Deluder
of Satan Act: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_School_Laws),
has been manipulated to become the means of controlling thought. Children from K through PhD are not being
taught how to think, but how to give the right answer. Real thinkers, like Chomsky are a rarity in
our culture: most of them have been marginalized. The scientific community is commonly
instructed by their political or other overlords, how to spin the facts. If the scientists doesn’t “get it” the first
time, they get retrained: failing at retraining they get fired or otherwise marginalized. Many excellent scientists, realizing that
this is who the game is played, go along with the lie so that they can get back
to their work. There is no freedom of
speech in this. Chomsky is tolerated
only because he sounds like a raving madman to most people.
5.
Power corrupts, and
absolute power corrupts absolutely. Our
ever increasing omnipotent central government is a disaster. We continue, uninvited, to meddle in international
affairs. The fine balance between
inclusivism and isolationism is rarely achieved. Rarely do we approach the family of nations
as brothers and sisters: usually, we come as know-it-all lords. This is a byproduct of our folly, because only
Jesus is LORD.
Many of us believe, and I proclaim
that our forefathers envisioned a united STATES, not a UNITED states; which is
to say that all truly important action is local action. The home is the Castle, it is being invaded
by government. We need to get out of
debt, and stay out of debt: in doing so we break the slavery leverage that
crushes us. We need to stop listening to
government/corporate propaganda, learn to think, and start doing things for
ourselves. We really need to return to
God and His Word.
The CBS link is: https://www.facebook.com/CBS. Unfortunately, yesterday’s news is already
buried deeply in the pile.
“Why do we always hear about Social Security [and Medicare]
running out of money, But never hear anything about welfare [or Medicaid]
running out of money. The problem is the [Social Security participants] worked
for their [benefits], The [Welfare recipients] didn't [work for anything]!”
