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November 2008 PROPHETIC OBSERVER — 1
Prophetic Observer
November 2008—Vol.
15, No. 11 Keeping Time On God’s Prophetic Clock L–092
Go, set a watchman,
let him declare what
he seeth.
—Isa.
21:6
The Coming Greater Depression?
Noah Hutchings
The Law and Charity
You say: “There are persons who have no money,” and you turn to
the law.
But the law is not a breast that fills itself with milk.
Nor
are the lacteal veins of the law supplied with milk from a source
outside the society.
Nothing can enter the public treasury for the
benefit of one citizen or one class unless other citizens and other
classes have been forced to send it in.
If every person draws from
the treasury the amount that he has put in it, it is true that the
law then plunders nobody.
But this procedure does nothing for
the persons who have no money.
It does not promote equality of
income.
The law can be an instrument of equalization only as it
takes from some persons and gives to other persons.
When the
law does this, it is an instrument of plunder.
With this in mind, examine the protective tariffs, subsidies,
guaranteed profits, guaranteed jobs, relief and welfare schemes,
public education, progressive taxation, free credit, and public
works.
You will find that they are always based on legal plunder,
organized injustice.
There are a couple of time–worn proverbial sayings that apply
to the present economic turmoil that has not only invaded our
nation, but also has brought financial fears in nations around
the world: “What goes around, comes around,” and “The only
lesson that men learn from history is that they never learn from
history.”
I was born in 1922, and remember quite well the Stock Market
Crash of 1929.
My dad was a farmer, and the price of cotton fell to
3¢ a pound, which did not even pay for the picking and ginning;
corn fell to 10¢ a bushel, and there was not even a market for
other cash crops like peanuts and potatoes.
I remember the huge
piles of cotton that were left out in the fields to rot.
My dad lost
everything, and I went to live with my Grandma Askew.
During
the ensuing era known as the Great Depression, my dad worked
as a sharecropper and part–time as a WPA worker during the
Franklin Roosevelt administration.
My older brother went to a
CCC camp where millions of young men in their late teens and
early twenties were sent to save the nation from unrest, crime,
We read in Acts 17 that in Paul’s dissertation to the wisest men
of Athens the apostle explained God’s sovereignty in the realm
of human government.
Human government basically is to keep
citizens of any particular nation from killing each other, stealing
from each other, and permitting the citizenry the freedom
and safety to enjoy the blessings that the Creator has by grace
provided for mankind, including salvation by His grace through
faith in Jesus Christ who suffered and died for the penalty of sin
in our place.
Frederic Bastiat on his deathbed wrote the greatest document
on human government and its failures outside the Bible.
This French parliamentarian wrote this treatise in 1849, some
14 years before the American Civil War.
Just one of the many
errors of government downfall that this French parliamentarian
covered was the main reason for our present national economic
trouble—Socialistic Philanthropic Plunder.
Quoting Bastiat from pages 18 and 21 of The Law:
Three Systems of Plunder
The sincerity of those who advocate protectionism, socialism,
and communism is not here questioned.
Any writer who would
do that must be influenced by a political spirit or a political fear.
It is to be pointed out, however, that protectionism, socialism,
and communism are basically the same plant in three different
stages of its growth.
All that can be said is that legal plunder is
more visible in communism because it is complete plunder; and in
protectionism because it is limited to specific groups and industries.
Thus it follows that, of the three systems, socialism is the
vaguest, the most indecisive, and consequently, the most sincere
stage of development.
But sincere or insincere, the intentions of persons are not
here under question.
In fact, I have already said that legal plunder
is based partially on philanthropy, even though it is a false
philanthropy.
With this explanation, let us examine the value—the origin
and the tendency—of this popular aspiration which claims to
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