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FOR BETTER OR WORSE:
CHAPTER NINE -- SIGNIFICATION AND APPLICATION
Text: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all
thy soul, and with all thy mind." (Matthew 22:37)
The economic system presently
in use in the United States, known as the Federal Reserve System, is
contrary to the Golden Rule that "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." (Matthew 7:12) It is contrary to the Second Table of the
Moral Law summarized by our Lord when He said, “Thou shalt love thy
neighbor as thyself." (Matthew 22:59) The Federal Reserve System is also
contrary to the Great Commandment that summarizes the First Table of the
Ten Commandments, which our Lord summarized when He said, "Thou shalt
love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and
with all thy mind." (Matthew 22:37)
The extreme wickedness of this System can be seen only when
we see that it has parented a host of ungodly practices, not the least
of which is the welfare system.
The Welfare System
Social designers are using the
welfare system, the tax system, and the banking system to defraud
Americans and to redistribute their wealth. The Word of God declares
that if any man does not provide for his family, he is worse than an
infidel. (I Timothy 5:8) The care of parents is clearly the
responsibility of children as the care of widows and orphans is the
Divinely-ordained responsibility of the church. To treat the weak and
infirm otherwise is base inhumanity, yet for two generations, many
Americans have been willing that taxpayers should care for their
responsibilities. It is not surprising that the children of them who
have forsaken their parents should be the ones to forsake their children
and pretend a right to abort them. "Oh, Lord, why hast Thou made us to
err from Thy ways, and hardened our heart from Thy fear?" (Isaiah 65:17)
The welfare system in our country is simple socialism.
It is based upon the covetous nature of man, and feeds upon his desire
to take from others who “have". It is therefore an able tool by which
social planners would redistribute this country's wealth.
God gave the commandment that "if a man will not work,
neither should he eat." Under our welfare system, a woman is rewarded
who lies at home giving birth to an illegitimate brood of children.
While, others choose to "live together" instead of living according to
God's ordinance in marriage because if the welfare department were to
establish the fact they were married, the couple would lose Social
Security benefits.
There is no righteousness in seizing the fruits of the
laborer to support such wickedness, If in my need, I were to take from
one who "has," it would be immoral and I would be branded a thief. Is it
any less immoral, or any less a theft if I allow the government to tax
them who “have" in order to give it to me?
Our welfare system makes a mockery of the work ethic, yet it cannot
exist without its support. What will happen when welfare recipients
outnumber the laboring few? According to history, the result will be
civil war. Oh, that God would again work in our hearts to will and to do
His good pleasure!
It is sadly admitted "The American citizen is born owing interest
to the private stockholders (of the Federal Reserve Board) ...and when
he dies, his children take up his burden"* (Griffin, 180). Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr. declared,
The powers invested in the Federal Reserve Board seem to me highly dangerous, especially where there is political control of the board . . . It seems to me to contain features to rest upon principles in the highest degree menacing to our prosperity . . . and to the welfare of the people of the United States (Griffin, 181).
* If "intrinsically, a dollar bill is just a piece of paper," then it is not possible for anyone to owe interest or for anyone to pay it.