Feb 27
We are constantly hearing about greed from the liberal media and corrupt politicians. The Bible does speak of greed as a personal sin, but greed defined as the LOVE of money, cannot be used to describe the activities of a corporation or financial institution. The rationale for this argument is this: an individual, corporation or [...] [...more]
Posted: under Economy.
We are constantly hearing about greed from the liberal media and corrupt politicians. The Bible does speak of greed as a personal sin, but greed defined as the LOVE of money, cannot be used to describe the activities of a corporation or financial institution. The rationale for this argument is this: an individual, corporation or financial institution has a fiduciary and moral requirement to make as much money as possible. These business entities (made up of individuals) have entrusted funds of their own or of others which are given for the express purpose of growth and dividend and received with a promised fulfillment of the same. Jesus tells a story of a wealthy man who entrusts 3 servants with unequal sums of money (God is not a socialist). When called into account, the two servants who made 100% PROFIT, were commended, ‘Well done good and faithful slave’ and the liberal who thought profits were evil and made 0% PROFIT (a non profit organization) was condemned ‘You wicked and lazy slave’. What was given to him was taken away and given to those WHO MADE A PROFIT. This is what is referred to by liberal socialists as WINDFALL PROFITS. Jesus is advocating taking from the unproductive and giving it to the productive. Mat 25:29 “For to everyone who has, more shall be given, and he will have an abundance; but from the one who does not have, even what he does have shall be taken away.” This is real Christian Capitalism. Our country would solve our economic problems in less than one year if we would put into practice these Biblical principles. If tomorrow, we stopped giving to those who refuse to work [2Th 3:10 ‘For even when we were with you, we used to give you this order: if anyone is not willing to work, then he is not to eat, either.’] and returned those tax dollars to the individuals who earned them, we would see our nation rise once again to the greatness that God has for us.
God is the one who gives us the power to create wealth. Deu 8:17-18 “Otherwise, you may say in your heart, ‘My power and the strength of my hand made me this wealth.’ (18) “But you shall remember the LORD your God, for it is He who is giving you power to make wealth, that He may confirm His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.” Since God gives the power to make (create) wealth, then wealth is from GOD and is good. To decry and denigrate corporations and financial institutions for making profits is to accuse God of incompetence and collusion and is libelous. It is time that we Christians return to BIBLICAL and common sense approaches to solving our economic problems.
Feb 11
I had a thought this morning while getting ready for work. At this time it is not a well thought out thought. I’m sure it has its flaws, and it would be controversial, and might even be eventually ruled as unconstitutional. It involves the rampant problem of Internet pornography. The problem that this idea addresses [...] [...more]
Posted: under Morality.
Tags: legislation, pornography, proposal
I had a thought this morning while getting ready for work. At this time it is not a well thought out thought. I’m sure it has its flaws, and it would be controversial, and might even be eventually ruled as unconstitutional. It involves the rampant problem of Internet pornography.
The problem that this idea addresses is that of restricting access to minors. The current system obviously does not work. First of all, the existing rules are regarded more as guidelines rather than enforcible laws. About the only ones that are to any extent enforcible are those involving child pornography within the United States.
Some sites are “responsible enough” that they require credit card access. This would deter some minors in that if charges were to show up on their parent’s monthly statement there’d be some explaining to do. This also acts to deter some adults because they want to hide their wandering eyes from their spouses. But obviously this strategy does not deter enough people since there is such a proliferation of these sites available.
Many sites simply grant access only to those who will click a button affirming that they are at least 18 years of age. The problem with this is that if someone is willing to sin in viewing porn, are they going to be deterred by having to lie about their age? After all, how many times have they heard their own parents publicly imply that they are younger than they really are? Yet these sites carry this simple verification to protect themselves from charges of exposing minors to porn. Basically there is no real verification process.
That is where this idea comes in. It adds a level of enforceability to the laws. It provides an additional layer of moral accountability. It could be used to help monitor activities of sexual predators. But on the negative side it grants the government more power to intrude in the lives of ordinary citizens, and sites hosted outside of US jurisdiction would benefit by not complying with such legislation (unless that country also had similar restrictions).
The idea simply is this: Have a national database updated by the Department of Motor Vehicles of each state that links the driver’s license number to the age and a choice of whether the applicant wants to be allowed to view Internet pornography. In the case of those under legal age there is no option to allow access to porn sites. If a parent responsibly chooses ‘no’ then the minor child cannot be granted access even if he or she has access to the parent’s driver’s license. Since licenses generally are only renewed every 2 – 4 years, people would be given the opportunity to contact the DMV to set their status preference. Non-drivers would have this preference applied to another form of state identification. Both porn sites and search engines would be legally responsible for verifying the license number and restriction status with the national database before granting access to “adult” content. The database could have an auto-increment counter for access requests, and flags can be set to alert authorities to excessive activity by registered sex offenders.
I welcome comments on this idea, since it is in its infancy at least in my mind. It is possible and even probable that this concept has already been presented in some form, even possibly at a legislative level.
Tracy Henness
Feb 03
Capitalism is under a full fledged assault. The government under the direction of liberal socialists is running head first to destroy our Christian Capitalistic system. The attack is 3 fold. First, there is a media attack which is completely sold out to the liberal agenda. Our news rooms of every venue are filled with [...] [...more]
Posted: under Economy.
Capitalism is under a full fledged assault. The government under the direction of liberal socialists is running head first to destroy our Christian Capitalistic system. The attack is 3 fold. First, there is a media attack which is completely sold out to the liberal agenda. Our news rooms of every venue are filled with socialists/Marxists, who are bent on convincing all the soft headed that corporations are evil and greedy and capitalism has failed. In spite of the stark socialist failures of history, these individuals write stories which depict any profits as evil and windfall. They denigrate the corporate scions as rotten selfish overpaid persons who deserve to be paid only what the lowest paid employee in the company is paid. You never hear these hypocrites talk about the overpaid and truly rotten athletes who produce nothing and add nothing to the culture or the profits made by newspapers, movie studios, producers, Hollywood actors, TV personalities and musicians. These individuals are truly a danger to our moral future and financial prosperity. Secondly, the attack is by bureaucrats who have life time employment and guaranteed raises and pensions paid by the tax payer. The majority of these individuals work for the government because they cannot cut it in the private sector or have an agenda to change the world (destroy our nation). So they are either incompetent or divisive both characteristics making government the enemy of the citizen. I find it instructive that each time there is a breach of national security in our government it is always at the hands of a career bureaucrat. I cannot think of one instance in my life time where an average citizen sold out his or her country to our enemies. Third, the attack is from minority, fringe groups who the government listens to and writes legislation for. These groups range from environmental to social and every area in between. All these groups need is a letterhead, a few well placed names, a fax machine and the liberal press. Their willing accomplices in the press will dutifully cover every crazy and outrageous allegation as though the world is coming to an end. The politicians will act as though these ‘crises’ are the most important and significant events in the world. They will pass legislation which ruins the lives of normal, productive citizens and corporations to placate these insane groups.
Without a return to common sense living our nation will go the way of all great civilizations which murdered its children by abortion, promoted sodomy, provided welfare to the unproductive and plundered the productive by confiscatory taxes. God help us!
