First Trump blew up the Deep State's foreign-aid racket. Now he’s replacing permanent aid dependency with a doctrine built on growth, trade, and self-sustaining prosperity.
Excellent article and insightful. No doubt that socialists embedded in the federal government will be howling at the change but it needs to happen. We are hated the world over for giving handouts and we cannot understand it. By helping with a hand up - putting them in business - we will give the peoples of the world self esteem and self worth. Not to mention that we don’t have to keep them on the dole…
Foreign aid enriches bureaucrats, and kleptocrats. How many Third World leaders/tyrants have become fabulously wealthy by stealing from the American taxpayer?
The question socialists/communists can never answer is, "how does your system create wealth?" Of course, it cannot and never has. It can only redistribute (i.e. steal) wealth produced by entrepreneurial capitalism.
Great article until you lauded Capitalism as the cure without caveats. Both capitalism and socialism, stripped of Christ as the means and the end, ultimately collapse into the same human problem: idolatry of the heart. History shows that Capitalists without Christ can be just as selfish, evil and exploitative as Socialists, often worse. Remember the Robber Barons! And what about the oligarchs now at the top of the US food chain? Musk is closer to what we'd like to see in terms of Christian values but what about the rest of those skunks? They are as far from the biblical model of economic and monetary policy on the Capitalist side as Stalin and Mao on the Communist end of the spectrum. Why should we praise and preserve a system that allows them to grow perpetually richer in a nation that supposedly guarantees us limited government by the consent of the governed? How is that possible under Capitalism without biblical restraints? It isn't.
We're probably going to preserve American geopolitical hegemony under Trump, and that's good for Americans, but lets not fool ourselves: it's being done by one set of new US oligarchs overthrowing the old European ones, and we little people are just as much pawns and peasants to them as to the Socialists.
Okay, first of all, where did I say that? And in what possible universe can you find anywhere that I have suggested than anyone ought to be without Christ ever?
Second, what you're saying sounds pious, but is actually doing the left's work for it. You are saying that following God's law (in this case on property rights and envy) can somehow be bad if the person acting correctly doesn't love Him. That's just silly. Everyone is required to uphold God's righteous standards, whether they recognize that or not, and there are significant blessings that come from doing so compared to engaging in systematic lawbreaking. Compare Japan and Haiti if you don't believe me. Or just look at Deut. 4:5-8.
Man's sinful twisting of God's truths does not make them less true. I can extol the virtues of God's design for sex without having to caveat it with a laundry list of sexual sins. That's what you're attempting to do, whether you mean to or not. We are defined by God's standard, not by man's perversion of it.
I understand and appreciate your zeal for Christ, and I am grateful for it.
And now, my "Christianity Commands Capitalism", deliberately titled to provoke comments like yours above.
Great concept. How will it be implemented? What specific steps will they take? One thing I read somewhere is that they would simply remove the NGO’s from the equation and give funds directly to the country.
Excellent article and insightful. No doubt that socialists embedded in the federal government will be howling at the change but it needs to happen. We are hated the world over for giving handouts and we cannot understand it. By helping with a hand up - putting them in business - we will give the peoples of the world self esteem and self worth. Not to mention that we don’t have to keep them on the dole…
"Trade, not aid;" capitalism, not socialism. Yes!
Foreign aid enriches bureaucrats, and kleptocrats. How many Third World leaders/tyrants have become fabulously wealthy by stealing from the American taxpayer?
The question socialists/communists can never answer is, "how does your system create wealth?" Of course, it cannot and never has. It can only redistribute (i.e. steal) wealth produced by entrepreneurial capitalism.
Great article until you lauded Capitalism as the cure without caveats. Both capitalism and socialism, stripped of Christ as the means and the end, ultimately collapse into the same human problem: idolatry of the heart. History shows that Capitalists without Christ can be just as selfish, evil and exploitative as Socialists, often worse. Remember the Robber Barons! And what about the oligarchs now at the top of the US food chain? Musk is closer to what we'd like to see in terms of Christian values but what about the rest of those skunks? They are as far from the biblical model of economic and monetary policy on the Capitalist side as Stalin and Mao on the Communist end of the spectrum. Why should we praise and preserve a system that allows them to grow perpetually richer in a nation that supposedly guarantees us limited government by the consent of the governed? How is that possible under Capitalism without biblical restraints? It isn't.
We're probably going to preserve American geopolitical hegemony under Trump, and that's good for Americans, but lets not fool ourselves: it's being done by one set of new US oligarchs overthrowing the old European ones, and we little people are just as much pawns and peasants to them as to the Socialists.
"Capitalism without Christ..."
Okay, first of all, where did I say that? And in what possible universe can you find anywhere that I have suggested than anyone ought to be without Christ ever?
Second, what you're saying sounds pious, but is actually doing the left's work for it. You are saying that following God's law (in this case on property rights and envy) can somehow be bad if the person acting correctly doesn't love Him. That's just silly. Everyone is required to uphold God's righteous standards, whether they recognize that or not, and there are significant blessings that come from doing so compared to engaging in systematic lawbreaking. Compare Japan and Haiti if you don't believe me. Or just look at Deut. 4:5-8.
Man's sinful twisting of God's truths does not make them less true. I can extol the virtues of God's design for sex without having to caveat it with a laundry list of sexual sins. That's what you're attempting to do, whether you mean to or not. We are defined by God's standard, not by man's perversion of it.
I understand and appreciate your zeal for Christ, and I am grateful for it.
And now, my "Christianity Commands Capitalism", deliberately titled to provoke comments like yours above.
https://www.rodmartin.org/p/sunday-essay-christianity-commands
Great concept. How will it be implemented? What specific steps will they take? One thing I read somewhere is that they would simply remove the NGO’s from the equation and give funds directly to the country.
A little light on detail at this point, but the gist of it is no reform, no cash.