Comrade Obango & His Most Recent Marxist Speech

“There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me — because they want to give something back. They know they didn’t — look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something — there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.”

Alleged President Comrade Barack Obama

1.) If there are a lot of wealthy successful Americans who agree with comrade Obango and who want to give something back, then who is stopping them? I’m sure the US Treasury would be glad to take any contributions they may desire to make. No, what is really being said here is that Obama wants to force others who don’t want to give something back to give something back.

2.) Why does “give something back” always mean “give something back in terms of more taxes to the Feds?” What has the FEDS ever given us that could not have been gained in a far more efficient, less costly way than the way they gave it? Keep in mind that if we are forced to “give something back” to the FEDS in terms of more taxes what that means it a lessened capability to give something back to our families, our charities, or our Churches. The FEDS already, in fees, taxes, inflation, regulatory costs, already take a incredibly high percentage of our income. Why should anyone want to give anything more back to these scofflaws?

Second, the whole notion of “giving,” is a laugh. I never ever “give” to the FEDS. The Feds take … steal … purloin … appropriate … loot … pilfer, etc. I never ever give to those people and when they start pillaging more, I won’t be giving to them then.

3.) Let me get this straight. Because I didn’t get to my success on my own therefore I should vote for a collectivist Marxist who is doing all he can to fundamentally transform this country so I can no longer be a success with other people’s voluntary help?

4.) It is true that none of us have gotten where we have gotten on our own but the difference between the reality of that help and the agenda of Obango is that the help I received unto my success was voluntary and came with few strings attached whereas Obanago wants to to force people to involuntarily help others and will place massive strings on those who are “helped,” as well as those who are being stolen from in order to force their “help.”

5.) There may be a lot of smart people out there but the fact that this snake oil salesman is successfully selling this elixir suggests that the dumb people outnumber the smart people by a considerably wide margin.

6.) All the people that comrade Obama cites as helps are either on the Government dole or are a government agency. Teachers are government employees. The “someone” who helped to create the American system you can bet, in Obango’s thinking, is the Federal Government. In comrade Obango’s Marxist world it is all for the State and nothing outside the State.

7.) Nobody “invested” in roads and bridges. Investment is what you do when you expect a reasonable return on your money. People paying taxes for roads and bridges have never thought that they would see a return on their money. They didn’t invest. They were stolen from.

8.) “Allowed you to thrive.” Note, given that all of those who helped in comrade Obango’s speech are either Government employees or Government agencies what Obango is telling us is that it is Mother State (FEDS) who have been so very kind as to allow American citizens to thrive. O how good of the Rodina to allow us to thrive and to take such good care of us comrade citizens.

9.) “You didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen”

Well, as all the “somebody elses” that Comrade Obango mentioned were agents of the State we know Comrade Obango thinks that whatever the individual has accomplished was in reality accomplished by the collective as represented by the State.

Comrade Obango has given us his vision of a collectivism that holds that the individual has no rights to what he builds because he didn’t really build it. For Comrade Obango the life of the individual and their work belong to the group (to society, to the tribe, the State, the nation) and we are going to learn that Comrade Obango believes that the group may sacrifice the individual at its own whim to its own interests.

10.) The FEDS did not create the Internet so people could make money off of it. It was a Defense project originally having military application. A common Defense is actually one of those items that public monies are allowed for in the Constitution. Secondly, nobody foresaw where the internet has gone. Comrade Obango is an idiot.

Look, Comrade Obango should be nicknamed “Checkerboard,” because he is Black and Red at the same time.

Heidelberg Catechism — Q. 110

Question 110. What does God forbid in the eighth commandment?

Answer: God forbids not only those thefts, (a) and robberies, (b) which are punishable by the magistrate; but he comprehends under the name of theft all wicked tricks and devices, whereby we design to appropriate to ourselves the goods which belong to our neighbour: (c) whether it be by force, or under the appearance of right, as by unjust weights, ells, measures, fraudulent merchandise, (d) false coins, usury, (e) or by any other way forbidden by God; as also all covetousness, (f) all abuse and waste of his gifts. (g)

(a) 1 Cor.6:10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. (b) 1 Cor.5:10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. Isa.33:1 Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee. (c) Luke 3:14 And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages. 1 Thess.4:6 That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified. (d) Prov.11:1 A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight. Prov.16:11 A just weight and balance are the LORD’S: all the weights of the bag are his work. Ezek.45:9 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord GOD. Ezek.45:10 Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. Ezek.45:11 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer. Ezek.45:12 And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh. Deut.25:13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small. Deut.25:14 Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small. Deut.25:15 But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. Deut.25:16 For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God. (e) Ps.15:5 He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved. Luke 6:35 But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil. (f) 1 Cor.6:10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. (g) Prov.23:20 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: Prov.23:21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. Prov.21:20 There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.

Question 111. But what does God require in this commandment?

Answer: That I promote the advantage of my neighbour in every instance I can or may; and deal with him as I desire to be dealt with by others: (a) further also that I faithfully labour, so that I may be able to relieve the needy. (b)

(a) Matt.7:12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. (b) Eph.4:28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

I.) Stealing From God (Vertical)

A.) All abuse and waste of His gifts

God has entrusted each one of us with talents and giftedness. If we allow these gifts to go undeveloped or unused we are guilty of stealing from God. (Matthew 25:13-30).

Similarly, when we use God given gifts and abilities for our own glory and advance instead of with the purpose of glorifying and advancing God’s cause we are guilty of stealing from God.

When we are not obedient to God we are stealing from God. When we seek to dismiss His claims against us in terms of His law counsel we are stealing from God.

When we violate the first table

Worshiping false gods
Worshiping the true god in false ways
Taking God’s name in vain
Violating the Sabbath

We violate the 8th commandment for we steal from God’ reputation and steal His glory.

II.) Stealing From Others

This commandment demands just price and just wages.

When we seek to charge more than a product is worth we are stealing. When we do not give what a worker deserves OR if as a worker we demand more in wages than we are giving out in production we are stealing. When we are lazy at the workplace we are stealing. When we require too much from a worker in comparison to what we pay them we are stealing.

False coins — Counterfeiting

Usury

Zacharias Ursi­nus in his Com­men­tary on the Catechism wrote, ‘Usury is the gain which is received in view of that which has been bor­rowed or loaned’

“Usury originally signified what is now called interest, or simply a compensation for the use of money. The Jews were not permitted to take interest from their brethren for the use of money loaned; and when the Levitical law forbids the taking of usury, the prohibition intended is that of any gain or compensation for the use of money or goods. Hence, usury in the scriptures is what we call interest. The change of signification in the word usury, which now denotes unlawful interest, renders it proper to substitute interest for usury.”

In the ancient world interest on loans (usury) was seen as violation of the 8th commandment. The Church would from time to time speak as if there were exceptions but on the whole it spoke with one voice against Usury.

“Once upon a time, certainly from at least 1150 to 1550, seeking, receiving, or hoping for anything beyond one’s principal – in other words, looking for profit – on a loan constituted the mortal sin of usury. The doctrine was enunciated by popes, expressed by three ecumenical councils, proclaimed by bishops, and taught unanimously by theologians. The doctrine was not some obscure, hole-in-the-corner affection, but stood astride the European credit markets, at least as much as the parallel Islamic ban of usury governs Muslim countries today…The great central moral fact was that usury, understood as profit on a loan, was forbidden as contrary to the natural law, as contrary to the law of the church, and as contrary to the law of the gospel.”

(John T. Noonan, Jr., “Development in Moral Doctrine’ in James F. Keenan S.J. & Thomas A. Shannon (eds), The Context of Casuistry (Georgetown University Press, 1995), p.188.)

Harold Berman in his book “Law & Revolution” insists that there were times that the Church would allow usury.

With the Reformation there was a slight alteration in the matter of usury was normed as Business interests came to the fore.

Calvin expressed himself on usury in a 1545 letter to a friend, Claude de Sachin,

“For if we should totally prohibit the practice of usury, we would restrain consciences more rigidly than God himself” Calvin went on to argue that “we ought not to judge usury according to a few passages of scripture, but in accordance with the principle of equity.”

He qualified his view, however, by saying that money should be lent to people in dire need without hope of interest, while a modest interest rate of 5% should be permitted in relation to other borrowers.

Some have read the Heidelberg as pronouncing a complete ban on interest. Some have read this as a ban on excessive interest thus begging the question of how we determine when interest becomes excessive. One thing is certain is that usury has become a means by which people are enslaved to their debt. Creditors understand this and so often it is the case that when they lend money they know well that in doing so they are creating debt slaves. This doesn’t remove the responsibility of people to avoid debt and usury, rather it merely acknowledges that those who purposely create money systems where the citizenry, in order to function, must become debt slaves will themselves likewise be held responsible for violation of the 8th commandment.

III.) Stealing As A Public Square Good

A.) Inflation

Inflation is when the Government artificially increases either the money supply or the availability of cheap credit. As money or credit increase producers can and do raise the prices for their goods because there is more money in circulation with which to purchase those goods. The theft in all of this is in the fact that when new money is injected into the economy, an increase in prices result. This increase in price does not hurt those who first spend the newly created money as the prices they pay for goods is based on the old money supply quotient. However, for those who are on fixed or stable incomes their dollars now have less purchasing power value as prices have increased in response to a greater amount of money being available. The increase of the money supply has stolen from these people real value. Thou Shalt not steal.

Inflation also is theft from the creditor in favor of the borrower. Inflation makes for cheap money. Creditors paid off with cheap money suddenly find that whatever it is they sold, they sold at less value then they thought they had. If I sell a good for $50.00 when a dollar was worth a dollar but because of inflation I am paid back $50.00 in dollars that are only worth .93 cents on the dollar due to purposeful inflationary practices I have had .07 cents on the dollar stolen from me. Thou Shalt not Steal.

Inflation also is theft from those who save in favor of those who spend. In point of fact Inflation discourages saving in favor of spending. If I place 50.00 in my savings account at 6 percent interest while the rate of inflation is 13% the 50.00 I saved will not be worth as much when I finally take the money out because inflation has done its thieving work.

So, this kind of theft not only does the damage that all theft does but it also does the damage of changing the mindset of a people so that they go from being thrifty to being wasteful. We go from “a penny saved is a penny earned,” to “a penny saved is half a penny lost.”

So, Inflation is what the Heidelberg Catechism calls a wicked trick and device, whereby we design to appropriate to ourselves the goods which belong to our neighbor. We are guilty of this kind of theft and of violating the 8th commandment when we vote for people who support inflationary economics. ”

B.) Ponzi Schemes

Though Charles Ponzi wasn’t the first to practice theft via Ponzi schemes his name because associated with these kind of wicked tricks and devices.

Ponzi convinced people to allow him to invest their money. Once given the money Ponzi simply took the money he was given by later investors and gave it to his early investors, providing those early investors with a handsome profit. Along the way Ponzi feathered his own nest with the stolen monies. Ponzi then used these satisfied early investors as advertisements to get more investors. Unfortunately, in order to keep paying previous investors, Ponzi had to continue finding more and more new investors. Eventually, he couldn’t expand the number of new investors fast enough, to cover the expected return of his old investors and the scheme collapsed. Ponzi was convicted of fraud and sent to prison.

Ponzi was practicing a wicked trick and device designed to appropriate to himself the goods of his neighbor.

Interestingly enough the vast majority of the money you pay in Social Security taxes, like the money that Ponzi took in from his investors, is not invested in anything. Instead, the money you pay into the system is used to pay benefits to those “early investors” who are retired today. When you retire, you will have to rely on the next generation of workers behind you to pay the taxes that will finance your benefits.

This is a classic Ponzi scheme and it remains a wicked trick and device designed to appropriate to those who established it the goods which belonged to their neighbor. The fact that it has become legal does not make it moral or in keeping with the 8th commandment.

Of course, Social Security and Ponzi schemes are not perfectly analogous.

Ponzi could only shake down willing volunteer investors. Once he failed in gaining new investors his scheme collapsed.

Social Security, on the other hand, can rely on governmental force to keep the scheme afloat. As the shrinking number of workers paying into the system makes it harder to continue to sustain benefits, the government can just force young people to pay even more into the system.

In fact, Social Security taxes have been raised some 40 times since the program began. The initial Social Security tax was 2 percent (split between the employer and employee), capped at $3,000 of earnings. That made for a maximum tax of $60. Today, the tax is 12.4 percent, capped at $106,800, for a maximum tax of $13,234. Even adjusting for inflation, that represents more than an 800 percent increase. That increase as well as the program itself violates God’s word of “Thou Shalt Not Steal.”

C.) Confiscatory Taxation

Here I want to just offer some of what Calvin said on this subject,

Calvin argued for prudent limits, writing that taxes should only support public necessity; for “to impose them (taxes) upon the common folk without cause is tyrannical extortion.”

Calvin offered that obedience was a Christian duty in this area; however, he cautioned Princes not in indulge in “waste and expensive luxury,” lest they earn God’s displeasure. Again he would write on this subject, “Others drain the common people of their money, and afterward lavish it on insane largess.”

Calvin certainly would have understood that confiscatory taxation is a wicked trick and device

Conclusion

In the Communist Manifesto Marx and Engels stated that the Communist theory could be expressed in one single phrase-“abolition of private property.”

To the contrary God’s word supports and protects the reality of private property.

Dabney & Bastard Democratic Protestantism

“A hundred years ago French atheism gave the world the Jacobin theory of political rights. The Bible had been teaching mankind for three thousand years the great doctrine of men’s moral equality before the universal Father, the great basis of all free, just, and truly republican forms of civil society. Atheism now travestied this true doctrine by her mortal heresy of the absolute equality of men, asserting that every human being is naturally and inalienably entitled to every right, power, and prerogative in civil society which is allowed to any man or any class. The Bible taught a liberty which consists in each man’s unhindered privilege of having and doing just those things, and no others, to which he is rationally and morally entitled. Jacobinism taught the liberty of license—every man’s natural right to indulge his own absolute will; and it set up this fiendish caricature as the object of sacred worship for mankind. Now, democratic Protestantism in these United States has become so ignorant, so superficial and willful, that it confounds the true republicanism with this deadly heresy of Jacobinism. It has ceased to know a difference. Hence, when the atheistic doctrine begins to bear its natural fruits of license, insubordination, communism, and anarchy, this bastard democratic Protestantism does not know how to rebuke them. It has recognized the parents; how can it consistently condemn the children?”

R. L. Dabney
Attractions of Popery
http://www.spurgeon.org/~phil/dabney/popery.htm

Brief review of reading while away from home

Productive 3 days at the lake

Finished …. Igor Shafarevich’s, “Socialist Phenomenon”
Finished …. Anthony Sutton’s, “Skull and Bones”
Almost finished … R. J. Rushdoony’s, “Chariot’s of Prophetic Fire”

Made good progress in David Hall’s “The Genevan Reformation & the American Founding

RJR’s book is great as a kind of devotional for the lives of Elijah and Elisha. RJR gives insights consistent with what you find elsewhere in RJR — to wit — the warnings against Statist control, the development of the antithesis in the life of Israel, Observations about the dangers of syncretism and what it means to be a “Throne man.” Very good

Shafarevich’s book is a must read if you want to understand what we are living through. Shafarevich connects the dots between atheism as a belief system and socialism as the incarnation of atheism into a social order. Shafarevich lays bare the irrationality of socialism and in a treatise that is worth the price of the book he spends time exposing how socialism is popular among those who think only as animals (intuitively) as opposed who think like humans (using reason). A fantastic book and if one were to combine this read with Dr. Fred Schwarz’s “You Can Trust the Communists to be Communists,” and Toledano’s “Cry Havoc,” and Von Mises “Socialism,” and Hayek’s “On the Road to Serfdom,” one would have a pretty good working foundation on the worldview that is our greatest enemy in our time.

Anthony Sutton’s book made me realize again how deep the worm hole goes. Much of what we get from the thin crust media is 100% spin. The next level isn’t much better with what we get from the court historian publishing houses. Sutton documents the role of the Skull and Bones order in US and world History. Sutton re-emphasizes that most of the conflict that we see in our times is purposely created as part of the dialectic between a manufactured left vs. right that has as its goal the result of a New World Order. Read in conjunction with other Sutton books, Carol Quigley’s “Tragedy and Hope,” and books like “None Dare Call It Conspiracy,” “The Zionist Factor,” “Behind Communism,” and “Secret Societies and Subversive Movements,” one begins to realize that the need for heaven sent Reformation is far greater than any of us could possibly be aware of. Good book.

Hall’s book is the antidote for the disease that Sutton names. Hall gives us how Liberty minded Calvinism is and he traces the impact of Calvin’s thinking on the creation of the West and especially the founding of America. Quoting numerous sources Hall probes how and why genuine Calvinism has always revolted against those who revolt against the Lord Christ as King. This book explodes the myth that R2K thinking is Calvinistic in the least. I still have 75% of this book to read but if the last 75% is as good as the first 25% … Katy bar the door. Hall has done us a real service with this work.

Shafarevich & McAtee On The Irrationality Of Marxism

“For the very reason that the basic driving force of socialist ideology is subconscious and emotional, reason and rational discussion of the facts have always played only a subordinate role in it. the socialist doctrines are reconciled with contradictions with an ease reminiscent of ‘prelogical’ primitive thinking, which functions outside any framework of consistency, as described by Levy-Bruhl. They are equally unconcerned with the fact that socialist conclusions are radically at odds with experience. Most astonishing of all is that these contradictions do not diminish the impact of the doctrine in the least.

Marxism reflects all these traits to a remarkable degree. Well known thinkers have pointed out numerous fundamental
contradictions, each of which would have been sufficient to demonstrate the groundlessness of a theory that lays claim to be scientific. For example, Berdiaev demonstrated that the concept of dialectical materialism is contradictory, since it attributes to matter a logical category — dialectics. Stammler showed that the idea of of historical determinism postulated by Marxism contradicts its own appeal to influence history, since it is equivalent to taking a conscious decision to turn with the earth around the sun. (Sergius Bulgakov paraphrased this as follows: ‘Marxism predicts the onset of socialism just as astronomy predicts the beginning of the lunar eclipse, and to bring about the eclipse it organizes a political party.’) The very heart of Marxist doctrine — the labor theory of value — was demolished by the work of the Austrian school (in particular by Bohm-Bawerk) and has been abandoned by political economy. Yet even without this heart, Marxism proved to be capable of survival.”

Igor Shafarevich
Socialist Phenomenon

So, in Marxism we have a philosophy that has been shown to be inherently contradictory in several of its key claims ( Dialectical Materialism, Labor theory of value) and just flat out wrong about several of its observations (Historical determinism, Capitalism always precedes and yields Socialism). Second, we see that Marxism is a theory wherein the theory is reversed engineered only after the desired conclusions are embraced. Further, we have the clear death delivering record of Marxism in the works of men like Robert Conquest, R. J. Rummel, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn and yet despite all this the death loving, self-destructing, man enslaving, Satan glorifying, doctrine of Marxism lives on and is even at this moment being pursued in this country.

What else can this drive to death be characterized as, except as the social order of Hell as inspired by Lucifer himself?

And yet despite this clear testimony that Marxism is anti-Christ to its core we have a whole school of thought (R2K) that has arisen and is telling the Church that the Church has no authority to speak to anti-Christ Marxist social theory from the Pulpit.