Forgive us our Debts 3

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I'm republishing this old letter because of our current national emergency.  I dressed up the type styles for you and reedited it.  What Moses and Jesus command is not optional.  This is a Christian problem.  I pray that we take it to heart.

Yours in Christ,

Herb Swanson aka Augie

Originally written around Saturday, March 17, 2012

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Forgive us our Debts

Dear family and friends in the Lord Jesus Christ,

 

The following letter is a response to a new e-mail I got today.  Here is a snapshot:

WOW! More HYPE, where do people find the time to get all of these stats?

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.  Plato

·         Barack Obama's 32 Month Report Card
                                                                                    by Rich Carroll

Mr. Hope and Change wants to create a nation humbled; humiliated, casting-aside capitalism and individual freedoms for one where we the people are government controlled. This would be a system that genuflects mediocrity, steals personal aspiration and opportunity, and punishes those who strive to succeed.

A gallon of regular gasoline the day Obama was inaugurated was $1.79 on average in the U.S. Today that price is $3.59, a 100.6% increase. The number of food stamp recipients has risen since Obama took office from 31,983,716 to 43,200,878, a 35.1% jump. Long term unemployment soared 146.2% during the same 32 month period from 2,600,000 to 6,400,000. Staggering hope and change isn't it?

American citizens living in poverty have risen 9.5% from 39,800,000 to 43,600,000, and the number of unemployed has jumped almost 25% from 11,616,000 to 14,485,000 as of August 31, 2011. The number of unemployed blacks has risen from 12.6% at the end of George Bush's term to 15.8% today, a 25.4% increase, and finally, our national debt is up 34.4% from 10.627 trillion to 14,278 trillion *

Keep these figures in mind as we recount the number of firsts for this presidency:

·         First President to refuse to show a valid birth certificate.

·         Etc....

·         Etc....

·         Etc....

 

Wow, Indeed!  Wow, is right!

Still, piling up a list of obvious personal offenses isn’t that helpful.  Policies and actions are what matter, not the man.  Granted that most of these Democrat policies stink to high heaven.  Granted, that if left unhindered, these policies will destroy our nation.  So what?

Take, for example, Obama’s great utopian idea of cash for clunkers.  We are not disparaging, not for one single minute, disparaging the thousands of Americans who were individually and personally helped by this program.  Yes, we helped pay for their new cars, but they’re welcome.  However, the policy itself was an obvious failure.  Who couldn’t see that one coming?  But, most of us went along with it on the grounds of, “Humor the man, He’s the President.”

But the fundamental thesis, in this utopian plan is that: “It is possible for persons or nations to spend their way out of debt.”  Obviously, it is not possible to spend one’s way out of debt.  Yet, this idea persists, it is alive and well, and its cancer eats away at Republicans as much as Democrats.  So what we get, from one administration to the next, Democrat or Republican, is not a new policy declaring that it is impossible to spend one’s way out of debt.  Rather, what we get, is a new spending program.  For the younger Bush it was Iraq.  Let us brace ourselves for what the new crop of Republicans will bring.  But as sure as God created little green apples, the Republicans will bring one more false utopia, one new spend-your-way-out-of-debt plan.  Nothing will change, and we are deceived to believe that it even might.  That is just not the way that politicians think, it’s not the way that Washington thinks, it’s not even the way that most Americans think.  Deep down inside our foolish hearts, most of us Americans think that it is possible to spend our way out of debt; that, this year, I’m going to win the lottery.  The problem is not Obama.  The problem is, how do you change the thinking of a nation, a nation that is, lemming like, bent on self destruction.  My fellow lemmings, we are going in the wrong direction.

There is no utopia.
There is only blood, sweat, and tears.

Now, I want to see any politician, Republican or Democrat, with the guts to stand up and say that out loud.

Our nation is ruled by the universal, world-wide financial lending system and its many institutions, not by elected public officials.  We are enslaved and ruled by our debt.  Our elected officials from both parties simply sing-along with the current debt program, which is why we always get business as usual.  This is why we always talk around the problem and never face it head on.  This is also why it will never be fixed.  The “boss” doesn’t want it fixed, he likes being surrounded by slaves.

The American people have two choices.  One, we can stop spending at home, even if we lose our houses and starve to death, and let the economy grind to a complete halt.  Two, we can demand debt forgiveness and usury cessation.  There are no other alternatives.  Utopian schemes and dreams do not count as real alternatives.  They do not work.  Make no mistake, we are at war here; and the price of victory is dear.

Years ago, I was willing to sell myself into the slavery of debt, because my children were in dire need.  We were debt free.  But there wasn’t enough cash to meet the dire need.  So I sold myself into debt to meet the dire need.  Today, I regret that decision.  I wish I had just let my family suffer, because the outcome is even worse.  Fast talking lenders have helped fuel the fire.  Debt only breeds more debt.  Now, we’re all in trouble.

·                     Gas prices going up?  Fine.  Stop buying gas.  Learn to walk, ride a bike, drive less, do something, figure out how to break the back of this monster before it kills us.  It’s the Law of Demand that keeps the price up.  Kill the demand.  You can always kill the demand, even when politicians and investors are blocking and manipulating the supply.

Yes, increasing the supply will also bring the price down.  That’s the Law of Supply.  But it’s the supply side that politicians and investors are able to block and manipulate.  Manipulation creates the appearance of a shortage of supply.  Shrewd investors simply tie up a large piece of the coal, gas, or oil for a few weeks or months.  The price goes up.  They make money.  They turn it loose.  The price goes down.  They sell short.  They make more money.  They repeat the process, they churn, it’s just like making butter, and butter is worth a lot of money.  You can’t do much about the supply as an individual citizen.  But, you sure can do something about the demand for all kinds of fossil fuels.  You can reduce consumption, not for the sake of conservation, but for the sake of freedom.

A great deal of these fuel price increases is due to American investors, using our own retirement fund money, to manipulate, hoard, and otherwise jack the price up and down.  This has nothing to do with Arabian oil or continental drilling.  American fat-cats are robbing us blind.  The debates over Arabian oil and continental drilling are only smoke screens used to cover up the theft.  I’m not saying that these aren’t real, but they are being used as smokescreens.  Churning of stocks and bonds is against the law, or it used to be.  But the fat-cats have figured how to get around the churning laws in a dozen ways.  We are being robbed blind by a few of our fellow Americans, and being sold a bill of goods to cover up the felony.  And, to add insult to injury, they are using our own savings to do it.  Where does the money come from, to do all this churning?  A lot of it comes from our own savings plans.  The key to the equation is the powerful lending system.  We have to figure out how to cut off their power supply.

Take a tip from the Wizard of Oz.
That man in the corner is the master of smokescreens.

·                     Housing market in trouble?  Fine.  We don’t need housing.  Government props have generated a gross real estate surplus.  So, why are so many people homeless?  The answer to that has to lie somewhere in financial hoarding and manipulation as well.  Something is blocking the connection between a willing seller and an eager buyer.  But my point is elsewhere.  I seem to recall that it was our own elected officials who were watching Freddy Mac and Fannie Mae while their enormous public thefts were going on.  Even Newt had his hand, was caught with his hand in the till.  A mortgage is not “good debt.”  I don’t care what Ramsey says.  A mortgage is bad debt.  Kill it off.  Take away the fuel from these uncontrolled monsters (granted, Obama is one of them) before they can light another fire.  Crush this dragon monster at his power source.

It’s our money.  They are beating us to death with our own money.

In the history of the world, I only know of a handful of significant public figures that had the courage to address this issue head on.  One of them was named Moses.  One of them was named Jesus, also called the Christ.  The others were mostly called prophets or minor prophets.  You will recall that it was the one named Jesus, who died on the cross, who shed his own blood, to put an end to this nonsense, to free us from our debts, our sins, our transgressions, our trespasses....

So tell me again, why is it that we love slavery so much?

Wow, Indeed!  Wow, is right!

Yours in Christ,

Herb Swanson
aka Augie, short for Augustine

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