Posted on 12/10/2021 3:10:41 AM PST by Kaslin
As a child, I owned very little, but what I owned was mine, and what others owned was not to be stolen or even touched without their permission. Only later did I understand how important this principle of ownership was to the survival of mankind.
One of the primal human instincts is possession. From an early age, humans construct a mental world based on what is "mine" and "not mine," and much of life is devoted to amassing and enjoying — and defending — our possessions. Not just material possessions, but status, relationships, and the freedom and security that accompany affluence.
Those on the left downplay the importance of this instinct, but it is closely connected with human happiness and survival itself — far more so than any Green New Deals or fake infrastructure spending, which are simply massive thefts from taxpaying Americans to liberal politicians and their welfare and corporate clients.
People take pride in their possessions, even if those possessions are modest, because what they own separates them from want, indignity, maltreatment, sickness, and death. Earlier generations lived with the fear of being "sent to the poorhouse," and their fear was well placed: those who had lost everything often had nowhere else to go, and conditions there were grim.
Progressives are now attempting to send us all to the poorhouse. That is the effect of the socialism they wish to enact — and socialism is the end result of initiatives like Elizabeth Warren's proposed wealth tax on top of existing marginal rates.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The ultimate goal of communism is ownership of us people.
And our SOULS!
Restoring the teachings of the Ten Commandments would be a good start.
That would be thE ONLY thing needed!
This is all true, but God will also have a lot of reckoning to do because in His Word He also commands against greed and exploitation of the poor and of workers. Wealthy nations, their progressive citizens included, have been pretty content on the whole to take the labor and resources of the poorer ones for next to nothing, largely for the sake of us living lives here based on ever-greater technology. And God shows no partiality. He might be about to change things quite dramatically, too.
I agree with what you said.
I hope that 63,000,000 plus unborn American citizens do not have GOD's ear.
Indeed! Look up!
They certainly do. Going by God’s Word, He has a lot of reckoning to do in all sorts of directions, according to His judgment on when and how.
Your property is your life.
L
“don’t touch any of my stuff. Any of you touches my stuff, I’ll kill ya. “- Frances
If you’re a materialist.
“If you’re a materialist.”
In order to acquire property one must work. That’s time that you can never, ever get back. When some dirtbag steals your property they’re stealing a piece of your life.
That’s why our Founding Fathers enshrined property rights in the Constitution.
If you don’t understand that then no further conversation between us will be possible.
L
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