Category: Culture

During the New Deal the Roosevelt administration came up with a bright idea as to how to keep agricultural prices high. Roosevelt, through his Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA), proposed to pay farmers for decreasing their production. The thinking was that by decreasing the supply they would increase the prices for agricultural products. This however was deemed not sufficient enough. The Roosevelt administration went further in their price propping schemes and legislated the killing of six million pigs and the plowing under of ten million acres of cotton. At the time, Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace, described the wholesale destruction of crops and livestock as “a cleaning up of the wreckage from the old days of unbalanced production.”

Now in 2009 the Obama administration has come up with the bright idea as to how to prop up the auto industry. Obama, through his “Cash for Clunkers,” is paying the owners of older cars to destroy their automobiles. The thinking is that by decreasing the supply of bad cars that will increase both the productivity of the auto industry while at the same time saving on energy. The effect of this action will be to,

1.) Increase the price of used cars.

As older cars are destroyed the effect will be to shrink the supply of older cars. With the number of older cars diminished the effect will be that the older cars that remain on the market will increase in price since demand, remaining consistent, will find that it takes more dollars to purchase a older car since supply is constricted.

This is bad news for those young people who are looking to purchase their first car.

2.) Increase personal debt

People, who are pursuing the “Cash for Clunkers” program, are people, on the whole, who will go from owning their vehicles outright to people who have taken on debt in order to finance that new car they purchased.

3.) Increases public debt

The government is going into debt to the tune of billions of dollars it doesn’t have in order to fund this “cash for clunkers” program. The government doesn’t have any money that it does not first steal from its citizens. Funds to pay for “Cash for Clunkers” are funds stolen from the American taxpayer.

4.) Create an entitlement mentality

“Cash for Clunkers” is a middle class entitlement. These kinds of programs turn the middle class into a slave class as the expectation grows that entitlements are acceptable as long as they are entitlements that serve my wants and needs. With this program the government is not giving away money as much as it is buying slaves.

And none of what we have said so far begins to approach the problem of taking perfectly good used cars and destroying them. “Waste not, want not,” keeps pounding through my head.

Oh, and could anybody point to where the Federal government finds authority in the US Constitution for “Cash for Clunkers”?

http://www.covenantnews.com/selbrede090201.htm

If Dr. Selbrede is correct then one serious implication of his article is that it would be counter productive to the interest of King Christ for Christians to go into the military in order to support a Empire-State that is seeking to advance what amounts to a Christ-hating Christian destroying agenda.

Look, there was a story recently where American military chaplains were destroying bibles in Afghanistan so as not to offend our Afghan “hosts.”

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/05/bibles-destroye.html

Why would any Christian think it is acceptable to support a military and government by their involvement in supporting a policy that forbids witnessing for Jesus and burns Bibles that were printed in the language and local dialect of the Afghan people?

The State is the current closest approximation to the Anti-Christ. When Christians do anything to support the state on the scale that enlistment into the Military reflects, they are at the same time not supporting the Kingdom of God.

Scripture commands that Kings are to kiss the son but we American Christians lend our support to a state that refuses to Kiss the Son by turning a blind eye to our sons (and daughters) enlisting into the military.

I don’t get it, and I don’t get why such reasoning is that difficult to understand OR agree with.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwrBAMOgS_Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5h4PFBuzvw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cmr-tFPUx9M

“Theodore Forstmann and George Will are the latest in a long series of writers and national leaders who have warned against the seductive appeal of government handouts. For example, 1960’s lecturer / columnist Henry M. Wriston, politician George Romney, and even a Vogue magazine editorial once admonished Americans about ‘luxuries-become-necessities’ leading to a complacence in which security is valued over freedom. Today, the typical scenario for weaning the masses from independence, says Forstmann, goes like this: ‘Give as many people as possible a taste of entitlement — give everyone, as our President likes to say a ‘stake in the system.” Notice this is not the same as a stake in liberty, or a stake in being an American. A ‘stake in the system’ means dedication to milking as much from the bureaucratic process as possible….

In pushing the Universal health care scheme, the Clinton Administration sought technical advice from countries already awash in socialized medicine. What most people don’t know, says Forstmann, is that the administration also sought political advice from those countries regarding how to push the idea. For example, ‘the German parliament advised that the most certain path to becoming a permanent governing entity was to socialize health care.’ Presumably, as soon as everyone had a taste of ‘free’ health care they would be reticent to give it up and, in fact, would insist on more. In the end, no amount of health care provided would ever be enough…”

From B. K. Eakman’s
Cloning Of The American Mind

Melinda woke up at 6:00 am realizing that her water had broke. Quickly she woke up her partner Gladys who was sleeping next to her in order to drive her to the hospital. Melinda and Gladys had recently been married after the state had passed the gay marriage law. Melinda and Gladys had decided to get pregnant in celebration of their marriage. Fortunately, the provision in their state run health care insurance paid for the procedure.

Gladys had just dozed off after getting home from working the late shift as a data organizer for ACORN. Melinda was thankful that the timing of her water breaking was such that she could drop off her 4 year old Eddie at his school for the early school program. Melinda briefly wondered if she would have time to fix Eddie breakfast until she remembered that Eddie could get the state provided breakfast and lunch at government school.

So, within 15 minutes of her water breaking Gladys, Melinda, and Eddie were out of the door of their house — a house recently purchased with the help of both the Government owned Freddie Mac and one of the area Government banks. Melinda slid into the passenger side of their sleek new government motors hybrid “Medusa.” The state run hospital was five miles away, with the state run school being a mere two blocks away from the state run hospital. So, the three of them went from their state owned house mortgaged by state run financial institutions, to the state manufactured car, to the state run school, to the state run hospital all in a matter of 20 minutes.

Once in the doors of the hospital the state employee informed Melinda that there was at least a 95 minute wait for the labor room and that instead they were going to have one of the state internee doctors deliver the baby in the emergency room — which they hoped would be available sometime soon. While Melinda was being informed of this Gladys was being reminded that according to the state hospital records that Eddie had not been brought in for the state required vaccinations. Gladys was told that if she didn’t see to it that Eddie came in soon there would be both a fine and a government medical worker coming to the home to visit.

Finally, all the red tape was finished and Melinda was wheeled into the emergency room while Gladys took a detour in order to purchase one of the state run media newspapers.

45 minutes later Melinda gave birth to a baby girl. Upon birth the baby girl was put through the government mandated measurements and assessments. After baby Cher was determined to be worthy of life by the state, the state hospital assigned a government care worker to Melinda and Gladys in order to make periodic check ups and provide “counsel” as to how to raise baby Cher. This “benefit” of a government care worker coming into the homes of parents with newborns was part of Gladys and Melinda’s health care insurance.