Socialism anyone?

God has the right to bestow His blessing on whomever He wills. He has that right because He is the sole proprietor of those blessings. In like manner, I am the sole proprietor of my property and therefore have the right to bestow whatever portion of it on whomever I will.

If I pay someone five hundred dollars to cut my grass today, what business is that of the guy that I paid one dollar to do the same a week ago? It's my money, and in both cases the employee received the wages that he found agreeable at the time.

The heart of capitalism is private ownership of property and the right to acquire and dispose of it at will. Can you show any place in the Bible where God advocates anything different?

The great thing about capitalism is that in my scenario, somebody got a dollar that they needed and I got my grass cut which I needed. A week later, the same equitable exchange took place, satisfying both parties involved. The cost of labor had risen significantly, but I was willing to pay it or I would have cut the grass myself or just left it uncut. Either way, I have the freedom to pay what I am willing to pay and somebody else profits from my willingness to pay. It's a win-win.

When the government arbitrarily determines what I will pay, I am more likely to just leave the grass uncut and keep the money in my pocket. Nobody gets my money and I don't get my grass cut. It's a lose-lose.

And that's what government intereference with the economy brings about. Everybody loses.

As this continues, grass cutters become desperate for work and petition the government to take my money by force in the form of taxes. But who can blame them? They're desparate after all.

But at this point the public has lost sight of the fact that if government had stayed out of my business to start with, the desparation would have never been so great. Suddenly I'm evil in the public's eyes because I have money in my pocket that I'm not willing to part with at the government-mandated rate. So the angry mob gets the government to raise my taxes even higher in order to get at my money.

But the thing is, it is MY money, and nobody (except God), including the government, has any right whatsoever to one penny of it without my consent.

Well of course, I'm not going to give my money without a fight, so the government responds by not only taking possession of as much of it as it can, but goes a step further and stakes a claim to all of it.

After some time, it actually declares a legal title to everything I have, and does with it as it wills. I now have nothing, and the grass cutters have nothing also, because after all it would be evil of them to accumulate wealth too. We're all equal now. We're all propertiless, landless, moneyless, and totally broke.

Welcome to socialism.

The fact is that some people must become unusually wealthy in order for others to work and for society to progress. Capitalism recognizes this and enables those among us with the entrepenurial/pioneering spirit to achieve that level of wealth that benefits the rest of society.

I realize that what I've described here is the ideal model of capitalism, but I recognize the reality that the system hasn't always followed the model. But the deeds of evil men do not dismiss the value of the system that once was the foundation of what was once the most prosperous nation in the history of man - the United States of America.

 

This parable has nothing to do with Capitalism.

This is a fallacy many have who tend to almost worship the Constitution as though it were actually scripture. Unfortunately, this belief is all too common in many IFB churches.

 

What we have just isn't working. Are you sayings people should die because you're not open to a change?

 

Who'd dieing, J/C ? Back up your statement or retract it. Unless you are a complete coward.

 

Or JC, you could just meat Curtis at the O.K. Corral at high noon tomorrow. :laugh:

 

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