America's Harbinger of Judgement

On Sept 12, 2001, the Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschale addressed America with these words;

"The bricks have fallen down but we will rebuild with dressed stone. The fig trees have been felled, but we will replace them with Cedars."

Tom Daschale was attempting to inspire the American people by quoting the Bible's Prophet Isaiah found in Isaiah 9-10.  Unbeknownst to him, he was declaring Judgement upon America.  Isaiah 9-10 quotes the leaders of ancient Israel declaring in defiant arrogance how they were going to rebuild following an attack on their nation  by the Assyrians.  If you read the complete passage Tom Daschale quoted from, you get a more complete meaning of this ancient prophecy. Starting at Isaiah 9:8;  

"The Lord has sent a word against Jacob, and it will fall on Israel;  and all the people will know, Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart:  "The bricks have fallen down but we will rebuild with dressed stone. The fig trees have been felled, but we will replace them with Cedars."

Isaiah 9-11 follows; 

"So GOD incited their adversaries against them, stirred up their enemies to attack."

The remaining portion of Isaiah 9 talks about a Godless, arrogant, and hypocritical people and how God's Judgment will uproot the ancient nation Israel.  The historical record confirms the accuracy of the prophecy concerning the ancient nation of Israel before it's fall. Entwined within this same passage, following each  warning of a coming Judgement, God repeatably says  ",...But still my hand is outstretched".  God is basically saying to the nation that he allowed this attack as a warning of coming judgement,.. But if you repent of your apostasy and return to my precepts, you can avoid further more drastic judgment of your nation.  As with the ancient nation  of Israel,  America is also ignoring God's warning of further coming judgement.  Since 9-11, America continues to remove God from it's public institutions and it's society with renewed arrogance and pride. 

On the 7th Anniversary of 9-11,  September 9, 2008, Leman Brothers stock lost 45% of it's value, marking America's 2nd Harbinger of Judgement.  Four days later, Lehman Brothers declared Bankruptcy marking the start of America's 2008 Financial crisis with the effects still with America to this day.

Sept 13, 2007 - Sept 29, 2008 just happens to be year 5768 since creation in the Jewish Calendar.  That year was the Shemitah or Sabatical year in the Jewish calendar which occurs every 7 years.  The Shemitah year commands the forgiveness of all debt on the last day of the end of every 7 years. On September 29, 2008, the last day of the Shemitah year, on the 7th Anniversary of 9-11 in the Jewish calendar, the stock market crashes 7%.  The Dow falls 777 points.  The largest point drop in the Dow Jones history. 

George Washington Consecrated America in his 1st inaugural address at Ground Zero in 1789 with these words;

"The propitious smiles of heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregard the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained."

America has been given the warnings of coming judgement and God's fingerprints are all over his warnings.  From saddling the unborn with un-payable debt of their parents to the pre-mediated murder of the innocent unborn, a nation cannot disregard the eternal rules of order and right ordained  by heaven and get away with it forever. 

Will America repent and return to the ways of God before it's people lose the nation? From this perspective it seems unlikely.

May God have mercy upon America.

The Collapse of the Civil Society in Obamaville

Obamaville is not new to the world.  Civilizations since the dawn of time have traveled down the road to Obamaville.   Recently, Greece arrived at the end of the road, downtown Obamaville.  The end is always the same.  The  injustice of it all causes the utter collapse of the civil society because it is built on a foundation of lies.  The greatest of these is the rejection of God which leads to crazy ideas in downtown Obamaville that freedom is "Freebies".  This delusional mindset believes that a few rich members of society will pamper the needs of the able body. This of course only works until Obamaville runs out of rich people and their money.

The heart of Obamaville is coercive action to take the property of some then redistribute a portion of the loot to the constituents of Obamaville's Government then pocket the rest.  In Obamaville, even the property of your conscience is trumped by Obamaville's Master Plan. Individual Liberty and Freedom must be sacrificed for the "common good" in order to implement Obamaville's "Fair Share" Policies. 

This is the foundation of all tyrannies. Private property, Conscience, Liberty, and Freedom must be eradicated.

Poverty, dependency, depression, lawlessness, and eventually social unrest and chaos are the fruits of Obamaville.

These are sad days for the few remaining who can see the destination of a once vibrant society now traveling down the road to Downtown Obamaville where the argument of "Necessity" is made at the expense of Liberty. William Pitt from a distant past had it right when he described Downtown Obamaville when he said;

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." - William Pitt (1759-1806)

Obama's Fair Share

President Obama has frequently justified his policies and judged their outcomes in terms of equity, justice, and fairness.  That raises an obvious question: How does our existing system and his own policy record stack up according to those criteria?

Is it fair that the richest 1% of Americans pay nearly 40% of all federal income taxes , and the richest 10% pay two-thirds of the tax?

Is it fair that the richest 10% of Americans shoulder a higher share of their country's income tax burden than do the richest 10% in every other industrialized nation, including socialist Sweden?

Is it fair that American corporations pay the highest statutory corporate tax rate of all other industrialized nations but Japan, which cuts its rate on April 1?

Is it fair that President Obama sends his two daughters to elite private schools that are safer, better-run, and produce higher test scores than public schools in Washington, D.C. but millions of other families across America are denied that free choice and forced to send their kids to rotten schools?

Is it fair that Americans who build a family business, hire workers, reinvest and save their money—paying a lifetime of federal, state and local taxes often climbing into the millions of dollars—must then pay an additional estate tax of 35% (and as much as 55% when the law changes next year) when they die, rather than passing that money onto their loved ones?

Is it fair that Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, former Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel and other leading Democrats who preach tax fairness underpaid their own taxes?

Is it fair that after the first three years of Obamanomics, the poor are poorer, the poverty rate is rising, the middle class is losing income, and some 5.5 million fewer Americans have jobs today than in 2007?

Is it fair that roughly 88% of political contributions from supposedly impartial network television reporters, producers and other employees in 2008 went to Democrats?

Is it fair that the three counties with America's highest median family income just happen to be located in the Washington, D.C., metro area?

Is it fair that wind, solar and ethanol producers get billions of dollars of subsidies each year and pay virtually no taxes, while the oil and gas industry—which provides at least 10 times as much energy—pays tens of billions of dollars of taxes while the president complains that it is "subsidized"?

Is it fair that those who work full-time jobs (and sometimes more) to make ends meet have to pay taxes to support up to 99 weeks of unemployment benefits for those who don't work?

Is it fair that those who took out responsible mortgages and pay them each month have to see their tax dollars used to subsidize those who acted recklessly, greedily and sometimes deceitfully in taking out mortgages they now can't afford to repay?

Is it fair that thousands of workers won't have jobs because the president sided with environmentalists and blocked the shovel-ready Keystone XL oil pipeline?

Is it fair that some of Mr. Obama's largest campaign contributors received federal loan guarantees on their investments in renewable energy projects that went bust?

Is it fair that federal employees receive benefits that are nearly 50% higher than those of private-sector workers whose taxes pay their salaries, according to the Congressional Budget Office?

Is it fair that soon almost half the federal budget will take income from young working people and redistribute it to old non-working people, even though those over age 65 are already among the wealthiest Americans?

Is it fair that in 27 states workers can be compelled to join a union in order to keep their jobs?

Is it fair that nearly four out of 10 American households now pay no federal income tax at all—a number that has risen every year under Mr. Obama?

Is it fair that Boeing, a private company, was threatened by a federal agency when it sought to add jobs in a right-to-work state rather than in a forced-union state?

Is it fair that our kids and grandkids and great-grandkids—who never voted for Mr. Obama will have to pay off the $5 trillion of debt accumulated over the past four years, without any benefits to them?

 

Above by STEPHEN MOORE

Mr. Moore is a member of the Wall Street Journal's editorial board.

Liberty and Freedom is being attacked from Governments around the world, especially Obama's Government.

What the Bible Teaches About Capitalism

Who would have expected that in a Republican primary campaign the single biggest complaint among candidates would be that the front-runner has taken capitalism too far? As if his success and achievement were evidence of something unethical and immoral? President Obama and other redistributionists must be rejoicing that their assumptions about rugged capitalism and the 1% have been given such legitimacy.

More than any other nation, the United States was founded on broad themes of morality rooted in a specific religious perspective. We call this the Judeo-Christian ethos, and within it resides a ringing endorsement of capitalism as a moral endeavor.

Regarding mankind, no theme is more salient in the Bible than the morality of personal responsibility, for it is through this that man cultivates the inner development leading to his own growth, good citizenship and happiness. The entitlement/welfare state is a paradigm that undermines that noble goal.


The Bible's Proclamation that "Six days ye shall work" is its recognition that on a day-to-day basis work is the engine that brings about man's inner state of personal responsibility. Work develops the qualities of accountability and urgency, including the need to comity with others as a means for the accomplishment of tasks.  With work, he becomes imbued with the knowledge that he is to be productive and that his well-being is not an entitlement.  And work keeps him away from the idleness that Proverbs warns leads inevitably to actions and attitudes injurious to himself and those around him. 


Yet capitalism is not content with people only being laborers and holders of jobs, indistinguishable members of the masses punching in and out of mammoth factories or functioning as service employees in government agencies. Nor is the Bible. Unlike socialism, mired as it is in the static reproduction of things already invented, capitalism is dynamic and energetic. It cheerfully fosters and encourages creativity, unspoken possibilities, and dreams of the individual. Because the Hebrew Bible sees us not simply as "workers" and members of the masses but, rather, as individuals, it heralds that characteristic which endows us with individuality: our creativity.

At the opening bell, Genesis announces: "Man is created in the image of God"—in other words, like Him, with individuality and creative intelligence. Unlike animals, the human being is not only a hunter and gatherer but a creative dreamer with the potential of unlocking all the hidden treasures implanted by God in our universe. The mechanism of capitalism, as manifest through investment and reasoned speculation, helps facilitate our partnership with God by bringing to the surface that which the Almighty embedded in nature for our eventual extraction and activation.

Capitalism makes possible entrepreneurship, which is the realization of an idea birthed in human creativity. Whereas statism demands that citizens think small and bow to a top-down conformity, capitalism, as has been practiced in the U.S., maximizes human potential. It provides a home for aspiration, referred to in the Bible as "the spirit of life."

The Bible speaks positively of payment and profit: "For why else should a man so labor but to receive reward?" Thus do laborers get paid wages for their hours of work and investors receive profit for their investment and risk.

The Bible is not a business-school manual. While it is comfortable with wealth creation and the need for speculation in economic markets, it has nothing to say about financial instruments and models such as private equity, hedge funds or other forms of monetary capitalization. What it does demand is honesty, fair weights and measures, respect for a borrower's collateral, timely payments of wages, resisting usury, and empathy for those injured by life's misfortunes and charity.

It also demands transparency and honesty regarding one's intentions. The command, "Thou shalt not place a stumbling block in front of the blind man" also means that you should not act deceitfully or obscure the truth from those whose choice depends upon the information you give them. There's nothing to indicate that Mitt Romney breached this biblical code of ethics, and his wealth and success should not be seen as automatic causes for suspicion.

No country has achieved such broad-based prosperity as has America, or invented as many useful things, or seen as many people achieve personal promise. This is not an accident. It is the direct result of centuries lived by the free-market ethos embodied in the Judeo-Christian outlook.

Furthermore, only a prosperous nation can protect itself from outside threats, for without prosperity the funds to support a robust military are unavailable. Having radically enlarged the welfare state and hoping to further expand it, President Obama is attempting to justify his cuts to our military by asserting that defense needs must give way to domestic programs.

Both history and the Bible show the way that leads. Countries that were once economic powerhouses atrophied and declined, like England after World War II, once they began adopting socialism. Even King Solomon's thriving kingdom crashed once his son decided to impose onerous taxes.

At the end of Genesis, we hear how after years of famine the people in Egypt gave all their property to the government in return for the promise of food. The architect of this plan was Joseph, son of Jacob, who had risen to become the pharaoh's top official, thus: "Joseph exchanged all the land of Egypt for pharaoh and the land became pharaoh's." The result was that Egyptians became indentured to the ruler and state, and Joseph's descendants ended up enslaved to the state.

Many on the religious left criticize capitalism because all do not end up monetarily equal—or, as Churchill quipped, "all equally miserable." But the Bible's prescription of equality means equality under the law, as in Deuteronomy's saying that "Judges and officers . . . shall judge the people with a just judgment: Do not . . . favor one over the other." Nowhere does the Bible refer to a utopian equality that is contrary to human nature and has never been achieved.

The motive of capitalism's detractors is a quest for their own power and an envy of those who have more money. But envy is a cardinal sin and something that ought not to be.

God begins the Ten Commandments with "I am the Lord your God" and concludes with "Thou shalt not envy your neighbor, not for his wife, nor his house, nor for any of his holdings." Envy is corrosive to the individual and to those societies that embrace it. Nations that throw over capitalism for socialism have made an immoral choice.

Rabbi Spero has led congregations in Ohio and New York and is president of Caucus for America.

Reprinted from Wall Street Journal January 29, 2012

America has met the Enemy and It is Obama

Monday, President Barack Hussein Obama painted a picture of America to his Osawatomie, Kansas audience as a land where "unfairness" reigns and opportunity cannot be found. On top of all that populist  crap, the country has a first.  An elected President of the United States says that the United States of America as founded, "has never worked."  


Ponder that thought.  The United States of America , in a mere 236 years since it's founding, has produced a higher standard of living for it's people by a moon-shoot.  It's success has left comparisons to  any other civilization since the dawn of time in the dust.  Yet this elected leader says "it has never worked".  If you didn't see these words coming out of Barack Hussein Obama's mouth, you would think they were coming from Hugo Chavez, or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, or Fidel Castro, or any number of our arch enemies around the world.


After slapping around the wealthy, those evil folks who make more than $250,000 a year, Mr Obama says "This isn't about class warfare".  All we need is for those wealthy folks to "Pay their Fair Share". His solution is to take their property so he and his supporters can make "Investments" to their constituents who he calls the middle class unions.

Wouldn't it be nice if people could keep the property they earn and have the Liberty to make their own Investment decisions? It is a dream worth dreaming. The founding fathers brought that dream into a reality, but Barack Hussein Obama knows better. He and his supporters are so brilliant, they now know how to spend the wealth you produce better than you do. Imagine that.

In 1776 the Founding Fathers signed a document that stated;

"He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance."


In 1776 that "He" was King George of England. In 2011, that "He" has become Barack Hussein Obama.

Thanksgiving Conceived in Liberty

In the early part of the seventeenth century, the Church of England under King James I was persecuting anyone and everyone who did not recognize its absolute civil and spiritual authority. Those who challenged this authority and those who believed strongly in freedom of worship were hunted down, imprisoned, and sometimes executed for their beliefs.


So a group of separatists fled to Holland and established a community.  After eleven years, about forty of them agreed to make a journey full of risk to the New World, where they would certainly face hardships, but could live and worship God according to the dictates of their own consciences. To finance the Journey, the Pilgrims along with other crew entered into a contract with some merchant sponsors and investors in London. The contract called for everything they produced to go into a common store, and each member of the community was entitled to one common share. All of the land they cleared and the houses they built belonged to the community as well. They were going to distribute it equally.


On August 1, 1620, with this socialist contract in place, the Mayflower set sail. It carried a total of 102 passengers. Forty were Pilgrims led by William Bradford.  The journey to the New World was a long and arduous one. And when the Pilgrims landed in New England in November, they found according to Bradford's journal, a cold, barren, desolate wilderness.  There were no friends to greet them, he wrote.  There were no houses to shelter them. There were no inns where they could refresh themselves. And the sacrifice they had made for freedom was just beginning. During the first winter, half the Pilgrims, including Bradford's own wife died of either starvation, sickness or exposure.  What Bradford and his community found was that the most creative and industrious people had no incentive to work any harder than anyone else. But while most of the rest of the world has been experimenting with socialism for well over a hundred years, trying to refine it, perfect it, and re-invent it, the Pilgrims decided early on to scrap it permanently. What Bradford wrote about this social experiment should be in every schoolchild's history lesson. If it were, we might prevent much needless suffering in the future. 


Bradford wrote in his diary, "For this community [so far as it was] was found to breed much confusion and discontent, and retard much employment that would have been to their benefit and comfort. For young men that were most able and fit for labor and service did repine that they should spend their time and strength to work for other men's wives and children without any recompense." They figured it out real quick. Half the community is not working, living off the other half. Resentment built. Why should you work for other people when you can't work for yourself? So the Pilgrims found that people could not be expected to do their best work without incentive. So what did Bradford's community try next? They unharnessed the power of Liberty and free enterprise by invoking the under-girding capitalistic principle of private property.

Every family was assigned its own plot of land to work and permitted to market its own crops and products. And what was the result? "This had very good success," wrote Bradford, "for it made all hands industrious, so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been." So they set up trading posts and exchanged goods with the Indians. After everybody had their own plot of land and were allowed to market it and develop it as they saw fit and got to keep what they produced, bounty, plenty resulted.  There were profits and they paid off the merchant sponsors back in London with their profits by selling goods and services to the Indians. The success and prosperity of the Plymouth settlement attracted more Europeans.  What was barren was now productive, and began what came to be known as the 'Great Puritan Migration.'

In October, following their first harvest, Governor Bradford set aside a day of thanksgiving. Squanto, his chief Massasoit, and other members of the tribe were invited to the thanksgiving feast. The Indians brought deer and turkeys, while the Pilgrim women cooked vegetables and fruit pies. The purpose of the feast was not to give thanks to the Indians or Mother Earth, as contemporary history textbooks commonly report, but as a devout expression of gratitude to God.

What modern history texts also omit is that the contract the Pilgrims brokered with their merchant sponsors in London specified that everything they produce go into a common store, with each member entitled to one common share. In addition, all the land they cleared and the structures they built belonged to the community.  William Bradford, Governor of the new colony, realized the futility of collectivism and abandoned the practice.  Thus, what can only be called the Pilgrims' attempt at socialism ended like all other attempts at socialism, in failure. What Bradford subsequently wrote about the experiment should be in every American history textbook. Going on to explain the failure, Bradford wrote, "The experience that was had in this common course and condition, tried sundry years and that amongst godly and sober men, may well evince the vanity of that conceit of Plato's and other ancients applauded by some of later times; that the taking away of property and bringing in community into a commonwealth would make them happy and flourishing; as if they were wiser than God."

Three hundred and eighty-two years later, Americans still set aside the fourth Thursday in November each year as a celebration of thanksgiving. Although this quintessentially American holiday has become more secular than religious, it was originated by devoutly Christian people who were expressing gratitude for the bounty brought forth by their labor and the blessings bestowed upon them by God.

It is good to remember,...

Whenever the legislators endeavour to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any farther obedience, and are left to the common refuge which God hath provided for all men against force and violence. John Locke

The 15 Trillion Dollar Assault on Freedom

It doesn't take a genius to realize that increasing Debt decreases Freedom.  Of course, on the flip side of this argument, if you are on the receiving end of the benefits, you may be able to conclude that increasing Debt increases Freedom since your lifestyle would be at the expense of someone other than yourself.  It would be like living at home with Mom and Dad as they foot the bill for your every whim.

But for the 53 percent of folks who pay Federal Taxes, increasing Federal Debt puts a larger and larger Ball and Chain upon the backs of taxpayers making freedom a dream instead of a reality.  Just take a quick look at the recent history of the National Debt.

October 2009, the USA passes the 12 Trillion National Debt mark (see Obama the Architect of America's Decline).

May 2010, 7 months later, the USA passes 13 Trillion of National Debt (see The 13 Trillion Dollar Assault on Freedom).

January 2011, another 8 months later, the USA passes 14 Trillion Dollar mark of National Debt (see We Got Yo Money).

Today, Wednesday November 16, 2011, another 11 months later, the USA officially passes the 15 Trillion Dollar mark.


This is a stunning record.  Today we hear the cost of borrowing for Italy, Greece, Ireland, Spain and even France are starting to soar.  You would think the solution would simply be  stop borrowing.  But Governments, and the people who support them, are like Drug Addicts.  They have been living beyond their means for so long they have not a clue how to decrease their level of spending and truth be known, they don't care.