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To: taxcontrol; Telepathic Intruder; O6ret; Slyfox; NobleFree; LostInBayport
There is such a thing as exploiting workers, and it's wrong. To take the extreme end, chattel slavery is exactly that.

Or consider why corrupt Democrats want a huge influx of people across the southern border: for cheap votes. And corrupt Republicans (plus Democrats) want the same, for cheap labor.

Pushing trafficked-in, tattered, basically desperate foreign workers to underbid American workers (and underbid each other) for the poorest-paid, most undesirable jobs in America: that's exploitation.

That's one of the things that gives the Democrat Party a bad name, as I understand it.

And this judgment IS Biblical.

The “Four Sins that Cry Out to Heaven for Vengeance” are serious sins described in Scripture as “crying out” to God for justice.

1) Murder

What God said to Cain after he murdered his brother Abel: “The Lord said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground.” (Genesis 4.10)

2) The Sin of Sodom

This is based on what God said regarding the sins of the ancient city of Sodom: “Then the Lord said, ‘The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know.'” (Genesis 18.20-21)

What was the sin of Sodom? Scripture explains it in two places:

“Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore

I did away with them as you have seen.” (Ezekiel 16.49-50) “Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.” (Jude 1.7)

3) Oppression of the poor, especially widows and orphans

This comes from two places in the Old Testament:

“Do not take advantage of the widow or the fatherless. If you do and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear their cry.” (Exodus 22.22-23)

“The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God.” (Exodus 2.24)

4) Defrauding workers of their just wages

This one is found in both the Old and New Testaments:

“Do not take advantage of a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether that worker is a fellow Israelite or a foreigner residing in one of your towns. Pay them their wages each day before sunset, because they are poor and are counting on it. Otherwise they may cry to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty of sin.” (Deuteronomy 24.14-15)

“Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.” (James 5.4)

Granted, it didn't say anything about the "mortal sin of no paid vacations." The Peronist Pope has, shall we say, some explaining to do. We could send him some "dubia" about that.

31 posted on 03/11/2019 12:10:08 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God." - 1 Peter 4:17)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Slave and worker do NOT mean the same thing. By definition, a slave does not receive compensation for the work performed. The Master / slave relationship is different than an management / worker relationship. Please do not use the left’s tactic of false equivalency and attempt to confuse the two.

Again, a worker (someone who is compensated for their efforts by management) CAN NOT be exploited. There is the possibility of defrauding wages agreed to but that stops when the worker no longer works for management. In other words, when management executes an act that is viewed by the worker as a breach of the employment contract, the worker stops being a worker.


41 posted on 03/12/2019 6:09:13 AM PDT by taxcontrol
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