A little truth slips out, thanks to the intrepid Verum Serum.
That’s really what’s going to happen if this trainwreck goes through. It’s happening in every other place it’s been tried. The U.K., Canada, Massachusetts, Maine, Hawaii and other states. They know it’s going to happen and they’re doing it anyway. They know it’s going to happen but they paper it over with pretty talk about helping people that they know they’re not going to help.
There are many well-meaning liberal Christians who have fallen for these lies and honestly believe that what President Obama and the Democratic majority Congress are doing is right, appropriate, and fair. I question a lot about those folks but not their motives. One of the pastors at my church subscribes to those sort of views on “social justice” – though thankfully he does so on his own time, and does not expound on them from the pulpit; neither does a more conservative pastor on staff promote his smaller government views from the pulpit.
Let’s just assume for the sake of argument that it is perfectly right and moral to vote yourself a share of your neighbor’s paycheck; that people who worked hard and got an education to fit themselves for higher-skilled, higher-paying jobs should be economically punished for their efforts by taking a greater percentage of their income; that people who make bad life decisions should be rewarded for doing so; that the bible calls for a comprehensive welfare state (in defiance of 2 Thessalonians 3) and that society benefits from that, instead of simply having a minimal safety net. Let’s forget the hard statistics that the more the government does, the less Christians do – there is a pretty strong correlation between increases in government imposed wealth redistribution and decreases in church giving. Forget that poverty is an unsolveable problem. (Jesus said the poor will be with us always, the bible makes clear that serving the poor is for God’s glory, not poverty alleviation.) Forget that the essentially communist community in Acts 2 was entirely voluntary and NOT enforced from the top down. Forget all that, and just accept the premise as fact that having a more socialistic state is the right, good, moral, Christian way to live.
It doesn’t work. Taxes go up, government receipts go down. Obama was questioned about this during the campaign, acknowledged it was true and said he’d raise taxes anyway, in the interests of “fairness.” Punish wealth creation and people stop creating wealth. The more you do for people, the less they do for themselves. From a practical standpoint it’s never worked. It’s never going to work. People are more poor, more dependent, under these policies than when they started out.
Whatever intentions people may have, we need to consider the hard facts. For all the screeching about Bush’s deplorable deficit spending, Democrats have tripled it with no jobs to show for it. Unemployment has nearly doubled in the last year. Democrats took control of Congress in 2006. They even held off on the 2009 budget until Obama was inaugurated so Bush had no part of it. Are you better off economically today than you were then?
