Posted on 08/22/2019 7:39:51 AM PDT by Kaslin
I recently preached a sermon on the subject of stealing in our church’s series on the Ten Commandments. And one of the points I made is that socialism is a form of theft.
I mentioned the slogan going around during the 1960s---“property is theft.”
But the Bible says, “Thou shalt not steal.” Implied in that commandment is the sanctity of private property---I’m not allowed to simply take it because someone elseownsit. And the Bible does not say, “Thou shalt not steal, unless thou art the government.”
Socialism is a form of governmental theft. The government has no money of its own. It simply forcibly takes from Citizen A and gives to Citizen B. But, of course, the one who benefits the most from this socialistic scheme is Citizen C, the government bureaucrat who administers the welfare state.
Some of the wealthiest counties in the entire nation are the bedroom communities in the greater Washington, D.C. area, where government workers live, who administer all the many wealth transfer programs for our country.
To paraphrase George Bernard Shaw: if you rob Peter to pay Paul, you can always count on Paul’s vote.
The Bible teaches us to help the needy. That is all voluntary. That is the church’s job. When the government gets involved in the “charity business,” it is not only wasteful, it undermines the family, human dignity, and self-reliance.
It’s one thing to have a safety net for those who may fall through the cracks. It’s another thing to grow the size of the federal government and our national debt more and more with never-ending spending until one day, the whole thing explodes.
Meanwhile, we have leading Democrat presidential candidates who want to add more and more to our federal government spending. According to a Fox News poll, Elizabeth Warren is up to 20 percent as of August 16, and Bernie Sanders up to 10 percent. That represents a lot of Americans apparently buying into a socialist-type message.
Senator Warren may chafe at one using the term “socialist” to describe her policies. But big government is big government by any other name. To paraphrase Thomas Jefferson: Big government, small liberty.
One of Elizabeth Warren’s big promises is to forgive student loans. It’s tragic that so many young people have become so loaded with college debt. But these student loans are freely assumed debts. Why should everyone else be forced to pay for them?
What’s ironic about it is that many of these costly degrees really don’t confer much value in terms of gainful employment.
It reminds me of the joke about two women, who hadn’t seen each other in a while, had an encounter at the supermarket. One woman asked the other about her three children. One son had become a poet and had just received his master’s degree in literature. The daughter just graduated from college with a degree in modern art. But the third son? She sheepishly shared, “Well, you know Freddy. Freddy is still Freddy. He wouldn't go to college---he became a plumber instead. By the way, if it weren't for him, we'd all be starving."
Virginia Prodan, an international human rights attorney, grew up under Communist Romania. She strives to warn Americans to never go down the socialist path. She came to the U.S. during the Reagan years, essentially as a political refugee. She wrote a book about her miraculous escape from an assassination attempt in her book, Saving My Assassin. I have interviewed her on the radio a few times.
She told me, “Socialism is the government starting to lie to you about free things, and you believe them…then the government establishes socialism. It gains power and transforms into a communist [state].”
If you disagree with the government under such a scheme, she notes, they will “kill you and take your property.” In other words, socialism is the gateway to communism.
When I asked her about why socialism was so popular today among young people in America, she responded, “They have been deceived by the same lies my parents and relatives had been deceived by, so many years ago---lies that led Romania to be transformed from a free country to a repressive, socialist government.”
Prodan notes that, “Few Americans know, even those who dream about socialism, that the socialist leader, Vladimir Lenin, declared that ‘Liberty is so precious that it must be carefully rationed to ordinary people.’ Ordinary people are you and me.”
How many times must humanity, including parts of America, go down the socialist path before we realize the emperor has no clothes? The government has no money trees. We should listen to survivors of socialism and communism, like Virginia Prodan, rather than politicians who are essentially trying to buy votes with taxpayers’ money.
theft....
A wise man I heard once said “People repeat without thinking about it the old cliche that crime doesn’t pay. Crime pays and pays very well. That’s why it is always prevalent.”
Tax the rich
Feed the poor
Till there are
No rich no more
Very good article, thanks for posting.
Not only are they freely assumed, but you can assume that a portion of the loan was used for other purposes besides education; i.e., the money loaned may have gone to pay for more upscale housing, transportation, general living expenses, electronics, and fall/spring breaks or vacations.
Not all students misuse their loan money, but some do, and there's no accountability for them. Students see them aqs "free money,' at least until they graduate and have to start paying the loans off. For this reason alone, I would never absolve student loan debt.
Gun confiscation is theft too; especially if the citizen has to pay money to the courts/lawyer/storage to get their property back.
Wrongful confiscation should never happen but if it did; the state/county/town should pay all fees. When the firearms are lost in the system because someone in it decides they want your property and steals it, and it happens a lot, then full reimbursement (doubled) should be paid to the citizen. This will keep thefts of property down while in the hands of others. When the system has to pay out of their budget; they will want to know who did the stealing and take action. It could mean outright firing or a hold on promotions for 5 or 10 years. Chances are the thief will have his/her pay docked until the payout has been covered. I wouldn’t want a known thief working around me.
Guess who is for gun confiscation. Yep. Socialists, most dem pols, and RINO pols. Pretty much all the same thing these days. Can’t live on the difference.
Excellent points. I hadn't thought of that. I was glad to see our troop get their loans forgiven. I'd like to think they are cut from a better cloth and didn't misuse their loan money.
Because it works. If they promise to share the loot those who are unwilling to make the effort to become secure will vote for them.
Of course, the candidate says nothing about becoming dependent on the loot simply means the politician will eventually own them...as in slavery.
The word “woke” used in the way it is used shows the ignorance of the left both to history and grammar. Somebody saying “I am woke” is an ignorant man. He is saying lets skip the rules of civilized society and discourse. Lets act as ignorant men and show white people that we side with the ignorant, uneducated colored people and use their slang as if it was 1820 in the Southern states. Lets raise nigger Jim from Huck Finn to president because he’ll do a better job as president than Trump. Let’s bludgeon you with our pretense to ignorance and stupidity... because it is a pretense. It is a pretense with a purpose. And the purpose is, “You follow us because you have white guilty and your racist sins will be absolved if you vote democrat.” It’s deceit and conceit wrapped up in one big ball.
Because when you propose to rob from Peter to pay Paul, Paul is usually okay with that idea.
Keep in mind the adage about socialism, that “You can vote your way in, but you have to shoot your way out”.
Wrote Rudyard Kipling, a century ago:
“In the Carboniferous epoch, we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul.
But though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said “If you don’t work, you die”.
Because they ARE thieves. Case closed.
As far back as I can remember, bad grammar has been a sign of ‘coolness’ to the little Neo-Marxists.
Because they are sociopathic criminals themselves.
Cause half the population thinks that theft is just peachy.
Everywhere is
Freaks and hairies
Dykes and fairies
Tell me where is sanity
...always liked that song
“Socialism Is Theft-—Why Are Candidates Espousing It?”
Democrats specialize in theft: Middle class income, the truth, peoples integrity (Kavanaugh and Gen. Flynn eg) and elections to name a few.
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