Chattel

Fair: marked by impartiality and honesty: free from self interest, prejudice, or favoritism


"All I'm saying is that those who have done well, including me, should pay their fair share in taxes."--Barack Obama


   Does anyone in view of my pixels really think that Barack Obama is interested in fairness? Do you see impartiality in the current tax code? Is there honesty among our so-called leaders today? Is Barack Obama free from self interest when he demonizes one economic class to curry favor with another? Does he operate without prejudice? Does he show favoritism? There is nothing "fair" about Barack Obama, yet he throws the word around with impunity.


   Mr. Obama wages class warfare like Genghis Khan rampaging across the steppes of central Asia. Remember what he told Joe Wurzelbacher:

   Mr. Obama and most of those in Washington, D.C. believe they should have complete access to your money. What they don't understand (or don't care to understand) is that your income is the physical representation of your labor. In essence, Obama and those like him in this government think that they OWN a certain percentage of you. Think about it: your income is earned by the sweat of your brow, the ache of your muscles, the intellect of your mind; and politicians have generated a tax system that lays claim to you.


Slavery: the state of a person who is a chattel of another


   You have become a slave. As currently implemented, the U.S. Tax Code makes you a slave; the chattel of others. Your sweat, your blood, your time (of which you have a limited amount) is exerted to earn income to provide for you and your family; yet the government lays claim to a percentage of that against your will. You are a slave.


   We all know that a certain level of taxation is necessary for the proper operation of our government, but what did America's 30th President have to say about it?


"Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery."--Calvin Coolidge


   President Coolidge was absolutely right; and this government is collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary. But, you may argue, we are running deficits and amassing debt. This is true, but it isn't due to a lack of taxation. It is due to excessive government spending, fiscal stupidity, and spiritual wickedness in high places.


   To top everything off, we now have "Eat the Rich" parties going on across America wearing the "Occupy" moniker. Protesters are demanding the full economic enslavement of the wealthy for the benefit of those protesting. They are railing against "Evil Corporations"; the same corporations that provide us with food, clothing, transportation, toiletries, energy, entertainment and countless other goods and services that make our lives better; and they are doing it with the full support and sanction of the President of the United States of America.


   It's time for a reality check for these folks. What does the Almighty have to say about this?


You shall not steal.--Exodus 20:15


You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.--Exodus 20:17


For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: If anyone will not work; neither shall he eat.--2 Thessalonians 3:10


   I've heard people in these protests claim that Jesus would support what they are trying to accomplish. No, he would not. He would not only not support their "occupation", he'd insist that they find an occupation.


But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.--1 Timothy 5:8


   That's pretty cut and dry, wouldn't you say?


   The income tax penalizes those that do the right thing; that work hard, that provide for their own, that seek to live responsibly. It rewards those that do not; those that seek to steal from others by using the government as the hitman. 


   The OWS protesters seek to suck the vitality out of the responsible and the successful like parasites slowly bleeding the life out of their host.


   The question you have to ask yourself is this: When is enough, enough? When will the American people stand up and say: NO! Not one more percent, not one more dollar, not one more drop of blood or bead of sweat! When will we have had enough? Is it to late? May it not be so.


Godspeed.


   

Courageousness

   Yesterday, my wife and I went to see Courageous. This is a wonderful movie that will make you laugh, cry, and think. Most of all, to think.


   The premise of Courageous is men resolving to be men. Men who love their wives, their children, and yes; the Lord. Men who are willing and determined to be the best that they can be; to take the responsibility for themselves and their families.


   Take a look around you. What do you see? You see chaos, strife, unrest. You see class warfare. You see hatred. You see immorality running rampant. The world is spinning out of control. The nations are raging. The prospects of peace are nil, and the likelihood of war is immense.  


   Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members? You lust and  do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war.--James 4:1-2


   Lustful desire and irrational selfishness contribute to war and strife; hatred and animosity. The world is full of iniquity. But what would happen if men became what they were designed to be?


   Imagine, as in Courageous, that a few men began to take their responsibilities seriously, I mean really seriously. You see, a man is the ordained head of his household. When a man steps up to the plate and begins to act and live in the manner he was intended, his family follows suit. When a man and his wife are one flesh as they should be, they become the most powerful agents of moral instruction in existence, more so than the Church. More so than the law. More so than the government. 


   Contrary to what the liberal intellectuals will tell you; kids need their dads. If you're looking for proof, open your eyes to the chaos around you. We are witnessing a whole generation of young people who have little or no direction. Look at the prisons overflowing with young men who are serving time for stealing, killing, and destroying; stealing from their neighbors, killing their fellow man, destroying their own lives. If you ask these young men about their lives and their families, you'll find a common theme: Fatherlessness. Vast numbers of these young men have never had a relationship with their fathers. Many of them have never even met their fathers. Young boys need their dads to step up to the plate and teach them what it means to be responsible men themselves.


   Fathers aren't only vital to the well being of their sons, they are vital to the well being of young girls as well.  A girl needs her dad.  She needs him to be an example to her of what a man is supposed to be.  How many young women do you see on a daily basis that are struggling to raise kids on their own because they looked to a man who didn't know what being a man is for their self worth? How many of these girls gave themselves sexually to an immature boy with no idea of manhood because of words of adoration she should have heard from her dad?  Men, your little girls need to hear you tell them that they are special, that they are adored, that they are beautiful. They need their fathers to display the love, protection, and adoration for them that they should look for in a husband. They need that more than you can imagine.


   Men are not only needed in the family; they are needed in this country. America, in my honest opinion, is in a drought.  She is starving for men of integrity.  She is dying for the lack of courage among her men today.  Look at the state of things around you.  This nation is $14 trillion in debt.  Responsible men, courageous men, honest men, men of integrity would not allow this to happen.  We have abdicated our responsibility to not only vet and seek out good men to lead us, but to hold them accountable when they don't.  We cannot allow what has happened any longer.  


   How can we sit back and watch things like the Solyndra scandal to occur and do nothing about it?  How can we sit by and watch evil people ruin a good woman like Sarah Palin, and her family?  How can we be silent about 50 million sons and daughters systematically eliminated in the womb under the guise of "choice"?  How long do we continue to watch evil overlooked while righteousness is oppressed?  


   How can we sit still and allow our economy to be destroyed?  How can we be passive about a weakened America, which leads to a more unstable and dangerous world?  How can we look our children in the eye and tell them that their future is bleak because we were weak?


   Will we be the generation of men who presided over the destruction of our families, our communities, and our nation because we didn't have the courage to stand up?  Will we refuse to be Courageous?


   May it not be so.