Aryeh Spero at the Wall Street Journal explains how Obama’s class warfare is a complete contradiction of Biblical teaching:
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.
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.Read the rest here.
WE'VE POSTED ON ENVY AND LEFTISM SEVERAL TIMES:
2007:
FRIDAY, MAY 04, 2007
You Shall Have No Gods Before Envy
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. --Winston Churchill
If you are a true leftist, then you shall covet.
2008:
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2008
REDISTRIBUTION IS ANTITHETICAL TO THE VALUES AT THE CORE OF OUR NATION'S FOUNDING
S&L: OUR FOUNDING FATHERS OF REDISTRIBUTION:
HEH.
SERIOUSLY: LINCOLN MADE EACH MAN'S RIGHT TO THE FRUITS OF HIS OWN LABOR THE CENTERPIECE FOR HIS MORAL ATTACK ON SLAVERY:
THIS IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND UN-AMERICAN.
“The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If ‘Thou shalt not covet’ and ‘Thou shalt not steal’ were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or made free.”
— John Adams, A Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, 1787
“To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.”
— Thomas Jefferson, letter to Joseph Milligan, April 6, 1816“[T]he government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.”
— James Madison
But maybe they were wrong and Mr. Obama is right.After all, he is a Constitutional scholar.
HEH.
SERIOUSLY: LINCOLN MADE EACH MAN'S RIGHT TO THE FRUITS OF HIS OWN LABOR THE CENTERPIECE FOR HIS MORAL ATTACK ON SLAVERY:
It is the eternal struggle between these two principles — right and wrong — throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time; and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity, and the other the divine right of kings. It is the same principle in whatever shape it develops itself. It is the same spirit that says, "You toil and work and earn bread, and I'll eat it." No matter in what shape it comes, whether from the mouth of a king who seeks to bestride the people of his own nation and live by the fruit of their labor, or from one race of men as an apology for enslaving another race, it is the same tyrannical principle.OBAMA WOULD HAVE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT REDISTRIBUTE PRIVATE PROPERTY.
- Seventh and Last Joint Debate with Steven Douglas, at Alton, Illinois (15 October 1858)
THIS IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND UN-AMERICAN.
2010:
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2010
COVETOUSNESS IS DEEP IN THE HEART OF EVERY LEFTIST
THOU SHALT NOT COVET.
IT'S A COMMANDMENT.
BUT ONE LEFTISTS IGNORE.
COVETOUSNESS IS AT THE VERY CORE OF THEIR BEING.
COVETOUS PEOPLE ARE ATTRACTED TO LEFTISM BECAUSE IT OFFERS THEM A WAY TO EXPRESS AND FULFILL THEIR COVETOUSNESS - AND DRESS IT UP AS ALTRUISM.
THIS IS VERY CLEAR WHEN ONE EXAMINES THE LEFT'S LATEST CLASS WARFARE JARGON ABOUT 'THE TOP 1%".
AS IF I AM POORER BECAUSE SOMEONE ELSE GETS RICHER.
IT'S A COMMANDMENT.
BUT ONE LEFTISTS IGNORE.
COVETOUSNESS IS AT THE VERY CORE OF THEIR BEING.
COVETOUS PEOPLE ARE ATTRACTED TO LEFTISM BECAUSE IT OFFERS THEM A WAY TO EXPRESS AND FULFILL THEIR COVETOUSNESS - AND DRESS IT UP AS ALTRUISM.
THIS IS VERY CLEAR WHEN ONE EXAMINES THE LEFT'S LATEST CLASS WARFARE JARGON ABOUT 'THE TOP 1%".
AS IF I AM POORER BECAUSE SOMEONE ELSE GETS RICHER.
2011:
ENVY - AND NOT GREED - IS THE REAL PROBLEM
The Left argues that GREED is the problem: greedy rich people; greedy corporations.
This is nonsense.
People get rich and corporations grow by selling something to people that they WANT to buy, and which makes them happy once they bought it. Nobody holds a gun to the head of a buyer. And the seller isn't being greedy by asking for and getting "as much as the traffic will bear" - that's what a free-marketplace IS!
People like Steve Jobs got rich - and made others rich along the way - by producing things people wanted and were willing to pay for.
This is why the things that are bought and sold are called "GOODS" - they make people feel good. The buyer gets the goods, the seller gets the money - and hopefully a profit.
Corporations do this and big corporations do this on a big scale. Including corporations that are public and are owned by pension funds and unions and, well - your neighbors, maybe you, too.
They live and die in a fluctuating market, sometimes selling at a profit and sometimes not. After all, capitalism is not a PROFIT SYSTEM; it's a PROFIT AND LOSS SYSTEM.
Most of the billionaires in the USA today made their billions themselves in the last few decades. FROM NOTHING. And as they became wealthy, they created thousands of jobs and made thousands of millionaires - and enriched our lives with their products and their services.
Not Steve Jobs, or the GOOGLE guys, or Gates, or Ellison, or Musk, or Bezos, or Branson - not Buffett, not any of them. They had a vision for a new NEED in the marketplace or a new way to satisfy a demand in the marketplace.
And they didn't COVET or STEAL to make their billions; they EARNED it. Taking risks with their own money - or money they borrowed and paid back AND THEN SOME, and earning it with their own courage and sweat.
These billionaires and millionaires are to ADMIRED and not vilified.
What deserves to be vilified is the COVETOUSNESS and ENVY of the pathetic dupes and morons on the Left who have taken to the streets in the "OCCUPY WALL STREET" circus.
This is nonsense.
People get rich and corporations grow by selling something to people that they WANT to buy, and which makes them happy once they bought it. Nobody holds a gun to the head of a buyer. And the seller isn't being greedy by asking for and getting "as much as the traffic will bear" - that's what a free-marketplace IS!
People like Steve Jobs got rich - and made others rich along the way - by producing things people wanted and were willing to pay for.
This is why the things that are bought and sold are called "GOODS" - they make people feel good. The buyer gets the goods, the seller gets the money - and hopefully a profit.
Corporations do this and big corporations do this on a big scale. Including corporations that are public and are owned by pension funds and unions and, well - your neighbors, maybe you, too.
They live and die in a fluctuating market, sometimes selling at a profit and sometimes not. After all, capitalism is not a PROFIT SYSTEM; it's a PROFIT AND LOSS SYSTEM.
Most of the billionaires in the USA today made their billions themselves in the last few decades. FROM NOTHING. And as they became wealthy, they created thousands of jobs and made thousands of millionaires - and enriched our lives with their products and their services.
- FACT: 14 OF THE TOP 20 BILLIONAIRES MADE THEIR ALL THEIR BILLIONS IN THE LAST 20 YEARS. MOST, FROM NOTHING.
Not Steve Jobs, or the GOOGLE guys, or Gates, or Ellison, or Musk, or Bezos, or Branson - not Buffett, not any of them. They had a vision for a new NEED in the marketplace or a new way to satisfy a demand in the marketplace.
And they didn't COVET or STEAL to make their billions; they EARNED it. Taking risks with their own money - or money they borrowed and paid back AND THEN SOME, and earning it with their own courage and sweat.
These billionaires and millionaires are to ADMIRED and not vilified.
What deserves to be vilified is the COVETOUSNESS and ENVY of the pathetic dupes and morons on the Left who have taken to the streets in the "OCCUPY WALL STREET" circus.
2012:
ENVY AND GREED AND COVETOUSNESS ARE EVIL SINS AND THEY ARE DESTRUCTIVE.
THEY FOSTER THIEVERY AND TYRANNY - AND POVERTY.
THEY VIOLATE THE BASIC TENETS OF JUDEO-CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION ARE ANTI-AMERICAN.
IF WE WANT TO MAKE POVERTY AND TYRANNY HISTORY WE NEED TO CONVERT THE ENVIOUS LEFT INTO AN INDUSTRIOUS RIGHT.
WE CAN DO IT - ONE LEFTIST AT A TIME.
THAT'S ONE REASON WHY I BLOG
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