Social Justice: Code for Communism "What is "social justice"? The theory that implies and justifies the practice of socialism. And what is "socialism"? Domination by the State. What is "socialized" is state-controlled. So what is "totalitarian" socialism other than total socialism, i.e., state control of everything? And what is that but the absence of a free market in anything, be it goods or ideas? Those who contend that a socialist government need not be totalitarian, that it can allow a free market -- independent choice, the very source of 'inequality' -- in some things (ideas) and not in others... are saying only that the socialist ethic shouldn't be applied consistently." Barry Loberfeld, 2-37-04
Five important reminders:
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealth out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3, The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation.
The Bible calls us to willingly help meet the needs of the poor and hurting -- not to depend on government to reredistribute our resources in its self-serving ways.
Seductively false beliefs [by Thomas Sowell]:
"One of the painfully revealing episodes in Barack Obama's book Dreams From My Father describes his early experience listening to a sermon by the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Among the things said in that sermon was that 'white folks' greed runs a world in need.' ...This sermon may have been like a revelation to Barack Obama, but its explanation of economic and other differences was among the oldest — and most factually discredited — explanations of such difference among all sorts of peoples in all sorts of places....What could be more emotionally satisfying than seeing others who have done better in the world as the villains responsible for your not having done as well?"
From source:
http://www.crossroad.to/News/socialism.htm
