Wealth

Have you noticed how our politicians love to tell us that the United States is a “wealthy” nation? When ever you hear an election official say this, it is a good time to grab hold of your wallet. They always say this as they are ready to spend a lot of money or raise taxes. But do you really believe that most of these politicians understand wealth? Do they, and for that matter, do you understand the difference between riches and wealth. I contend that these are two different ideas. Wealth and riches are connected, but both can be very deceptive.

Have you noticed how our politicians love to tell us that the United States is a "wealthy" nation? When ever you hear an election official say this, it is a good time to grab hold of your wallet. They always say this as they are ready to spend a lot of money or raise taxes. But do you really believe that most of these politicians understand wealth? Do they, and for that matter, do you understand the difference between riches and wealth. I contend that these are two different ideas. Wealth and riches are connected, but both can be very deceptive.

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For many years the US had a wealth of natural resources. Many became rich from the exploration and utilization of these resources. Wealth is based upon what is done with it and how others value it. So there can be wealth without riches and riches without wealth. You must understand that money is useless if it has no value. So you must have wealth to have riches. But wealth can be many things.

In general terms wealth has no value until it is worth something. For years crude oil was consider worthless. Even after people learned to refine the oil much of what we consider valuable today was burned away as useless waste. That useless waste was what we call gasoline today. So wealth is a product of the mind.

Our government has been dominated for many years by Progressive Socialist. Socialist as a group, don’t understand wealth. As a group those who believe in Socialism, covet wealth. They do not know how to create it or how to use it to the betterment of the human race. They live their lives acquiring the wealth of personal power and destroying it and the freedom and ability to create wealth for everyone else. They understand that with wealth comes power.

Rich is defined as the possession of great material wealth. But wealth can come in many forms. The greatest wealth that the United States of America possesses is the wealth of freedom. From our freedom we create something that was very rare before 1776, freedom that is the envy around the world. Once this resource has been exhausted it will be depleted around the world. Those who are exploiting this resource for the purpose of destroying it are many. There quest for wealth and power can only be satisfied by taking our God given rights away from the US people.

We must realize how we have been manipulated into chasing material wealth of possessions. Too many of us think that that next possession is what we need for true happiness. We can not squander the wealth given to us by our forefathers for the ghost of happiness based upon simple material possessions. The true wealth of a person is the wealth of the human spirit.

Those who crave wealth and power for their own consumption are what they claim to hate, but the goal of Socialism has ultimately been the control of people and their ability to create wealth. So when you hear a politician or elected official talk about spreading the wealth around, you should notice that they are not talking about their own wealth and power, but yours. They are really telling you that they wish to take away your greatest wealth, your freedoms.


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Socialism

The siren song of Socialism is very attractive. The idea that if everyone works together toward a common goal and sharing the fruits of their labor to all, draws many into this fantasy world. Everyday our youth and many Americans are told that Socialism is people working together for a common goal. The facts of history has shown that it becomes people working together under a common yoke. Without the motivation of personal gain many people see no reason to work harder than anyone else. Due to this fault those who rule over the people, in many cases in the past, turn to "iron fist" tactics to motivate. Ruling through force was the norm in the major parts of the world, until the emergence of the United States of America. Will the world once again fall into the darkness of tyranny?

There can be no personal freedoms in a socialist society. In a free society each person works toward their own goals. In a Socialist society you must work toward the government's goals. Ultimately no matter how hard you work the final results for the average member of the socialist society will be poverty. This is not the image sold by those who sell the idea but history has shown that starvation and poverty is the ultimate destination of Socialistic governments. You need to look no further then the killing fields of Cambodia or the mass starvations in 1950's China. The leftist's much loved Chairman Mao condemned millions to slow death in an effort to prove his personal theories. In blind efforts to create a perfect nation he proved to be one of the largest mass murders in history.

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The idea of mass murder seems to be acceptable to many on the left. They see nothing wrong with kill those who stand in the way of their goals. The whole time they claim that their opponents are the ones who advocate violence. With every time the leftist advocates for abortion they support the mass murder of the innocence and the manipulation of women in one of the most difficult times of their life.

The one exception is the ruling class. An examination of history shows that those who run these countries enslave the populous while living a life of luxury. Outwardly the Communist leaders put on a show that they lived no differently than the rest of the population, but the truth was very different. The only way that these leaders could stay in power also required that they keep those close to them happy. The best way to keep a person happy and loyal is through personal gain which violates the ideas of the Socialist and Communist states.

By now you may be saying that Socialism and Communism are two different systems. In answer to this I recommend that you look closely at the goals of the Socialist and Communist parties. They are both slightly different shades of the same color of red. The only thing that has slowed the movement of Socialist countries into pure Communism has been the freedoms of the US. With our slide into Socialism and the lose of our freedoms, the shining city of the hill will be gone. The Socialist of the world will then feel free to totally enslave their populations to the goals of the system. Unless we save our freedoms now, we and the entire world will fall into a darkness of pain and suffering that may never end. We will find that one day we are all slaves to people who only see us as tools, not human beings. We must stop this slide into the abyss and stand up for our freedoms, before it is too late.

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Values

What are your values? What is your value system? I was raised in a Christian family and spent years studying the Bible. Many of the values of the West are based upon the teachings of Jesus Christ. The American value system have these values. Such things as the idea of turning the other cheek which is often expressed as forgive and forget. This value maybe the reason that Americans seem to tire of war and conflict are much quicker than many of the other people on this planet. We also have such a diverse population, it is hard to stay angry at any group for very long due to this interaction we much more easily overcome our prejudices. We sometimes forget that those who wish us harm are no so forgiving.

Look how quickly we became close friends with Japan and Germany after the Second World War. We were able to quickly forgive those who we called enemy in the 1940s. I don't see any sign that the idea of forgive and forget exist in the Arab value system or the Muslim religion. In the Middle East they still teach their children the evils of the Crusades as if they occurred just a few years ago, even tho it has been around 740 years since the last Crusade. They stoke this fire of hate against the west and show no sign of changing. This is not a way to promote peace as the West understands it.

Another one is the idea of fair treatment. This is based upon the idea of the Golden Rule or do unto others as you would have them do upon you. The idea of honesty, our system of contracts, and fair dealing can be seen as having their roots in Judo/Christian values. Even many of the values that are professed by Atheist are based upon the lessons related in the religion that they hate.

One of the greatest dangers faced by the West is this misunderstanding of their own value system and what it is based upon. Too many seem to assume that our values are universal. They think that our ideas of peace, honesty, forgiveness, property, and fairness are the same world wide. They seem to think that all societies are based upon our values. Because we think peace means live and let live does not mean that other cultures believe the same thing. We must remember that when Adolf Hitler said he wanted peace, it only wanted it long enough for him to gather his forces.

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Our values have served us well in our recent past. Our blending of peoples from around the world and their integration into our society has created a very strong and diverse nation. Our internal peace stand in contrast to the home countries from which many of our immigrates have come. Those who have come to this country with the intent to join our society must learn these values to succeed. Those who carry the baggage of the past have a much harder time. This is where many of those who have come here in recent years differ from the immigrates that helped build the nation.

We find ourselves at a dangerous time. There are well know stores of Americans who have forsaken their heritage and impressed the culture of other nations. Americans who now take up arms against the US. We find that our values and trusting nature is being used against us. We believe people when they tell us they only want peace without questioning the meaning of that statement. It is frightening to see how many people never question when told "Muslims don't lie" without knowing the truth behind that statement. Too many of us accept the view of foreign countries about this country and that our system is evil, when they have never been taught or bothered to read our governing documents. We expect all religious leaders to show the same values, without knowing their values.

We have been told that we are intolerant when we are the most tolerant nation in the world. Looking at the Middle East I don't see tolerance. I see hate in the Arab nations. For a people who say they don't lie and only want peace, they seem to only preach hate and genocide. They say one thing among themselves and another to us. This is not part of American values but is within their value system. We must understand our value system, but we also understand the value systems of others. We must also understand the goals of those who we deal with around the world.


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