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@RonSCantor So good Dr Ron!
@nettermike Well said!
HISTORY LESSON ON YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY CARD:
Just in case some of you young whippersnappers (& some older ones) didn’t know this. It’s easy to check out, if you don’t believe it. Be sure and show it to your family and friends. They need a little history lesson on what’s what and it doesn’t matter whether you are Democrat or Republican. Facts are FACTS.
Up until the 1980's, Social Security cards expressly stated the number and card were not to be used for identification purposes.
Since nearly everyone in the United States now has a number, it became convenient to use it anyway and the "NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION" message was removed.
Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program. His promises are in black, with updates in brackets.
1.) That participation in the Program would be completely voluntary [No longer voluntary],
2.) That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual Incomes into the Program [Now 7.65% on the first $90,000, and 15% on the first $90,000 if you’re self-employed],
3.) That the money the participants elected to put into the Program would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year [No longer tax deductible]
4.) That the money the participants put into the independent ‘Trust Fund’ rather than into the general operating fund, and therefore, would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other Government program [Under Johnson the money was moved to the General Fund and spent]
5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income [Under Clinton & Gore up to 85% of your Social Security can be taxed].
Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social Security check every month — and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of the money we paid to the Federal government to ‘put away’ — you may be interested in the following.
Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the independent ‘Trust Fund’ and put it into the general fund so that Congress could spend it?
A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the democratically controlled House and Senate.
Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?
A: The Democratic Party.
Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities?
A: The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting the ‘tie-breaking’ deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of the US
AND MY FAVORITE:
Q: Which Political Party decided to start giving annuity payments to immigrants?
A: That’s right! Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party. Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65, began to receive Social Security payments!
The Democratic Party gave these payments to them, even though they never paid a dime into it!
Now, after violating the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away!
And the worst part about it is uninformed citizens believe it!
If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness will be planted and maybe changes will evolve. Maybe not, though.
Some Democrats are awfully sure of what isn’t so but it’s worth a try.
How many people can YOU send this to?
This may very well be the most important post you will see today. Every nation has something in their history that is so shameful. We had slavery. Britain had the White Paper. Few of us have any understanding of the role that the Britain of the 1930s played in the Jewish tragedy of the Holocaust. Read the book or watch the movie “Exodus.” The number of Jewish lives lost because of the decisions made by the UK government in the 30s was incalculable
EL PROBLEMA NUNCA FUE LA TIERRA.
EL PROBLEMA HA SIDO LA EXISTENCIA DE ISRAEL.
Después de la caída del Imperio Otomano tras la Primera Guerra Mundial, las potencias europeas dividieron gran parte del Medio Oriente.
El llamado Mandato Británico de Palestina formaba parte de un territorio mucho más amplio administrado por británicos y franceses, que incluía áreas de los actuales:
* Israel
* Jordania
* partes de Siria
* Líbano
* e Irak moderno bajo otros mandatos regionales.
Dentro del Mandato de Palestina original, aproximadamente el 78% del territorio fue separado en 1921 para crear Transjordania, hoy el Reino de Jordania.
El territorio restante —apenas un 22%— quedó al oeste del río Jordán.
Y aun así, en 1947, los líderes judíos aceptaron el plan de partición de la ONU para dividir ese pequeño 22% en dos estados:
* uno judío
* y otro árabe palestino.
Los líderes árabes rechazaron el plan y lanzaron la guerra de 1948.
Si Israel hubiese conservado solamente la porción aprobada originalmente por la ONU, habría ocupado cerca del 12% del territorio total administrado originalmente dentro del Mandato palestino antes de la separación de Jordania.
Ese dato cambia completamente la narrativa de que “todo fue robado”.
Mientras tanto:
* Jordania quedó con cerca del 78% del territorio original.
* Egipto controló Gaza entre 1948 y 1967.
* Jordania controló Judea y Samaria durante ese mismo período.
Y aun así nunca se creó allí un estado palestino independiente.
Hoy más de 2 millones de árabes viven dentro de Israel con ciudadanía israelí:
* votan,
* estudian,
* tienen representación política,
* trabajan como médicos, jueces, empresarios y profesores.
Israel sigue siendo la democracia más sólida de Medio Oriente, con libertad religiosa, elecciones libres y convivencia entre múltiples comunidades.
Sí, existen conflictos y debates legítimos.
Pero también es una realidad histórica que muchos grupos extremistas nunca aceptaron la existencia de un estado judío, sin importar el tamaño de su territorio.
El conflicto no comenzó por el tamaño de Israel.
Comenzó porque Israel existe.
Tucker Is Wrong: Christianity Commands Capitalism
The entirety of Scripture not only assumes but commands private property rights. It also commands profitability on the Master's investment, in all areas of life.
Christianity commands Capitalism.
Yes, this will come as a shock to your gender studies professor, your hippie uncle, and perhaps even your (non-economically trained) pastor. It certainly contradicts the increasingly anti-American Alexander Dugin-follower Tucker Carlson.
But it's true.
The entirety of Scripture not only assumes but commands private property rights, in minute detail. Even at the macro, Ten Commandments level, not only is theft prohibited, but even just thinking about theft (covetousness) is also.
There’s a reason. Christian economics begins not with the idea of scarcity, as your college microeconomics class did, but with ownership: God’s ownership, of all things, including you. Scarcity is the result of the Curse, but God’s ownership is constant, before the Fall and after the Second Coming. He delegates that ownership to specific individuals — stewards — to care for and improve His property, just as He did with Adam in the Garden.
His servants are differently gifted. Some are artists. Some are inventors. Some are evangelists. Some work the cash register at Taco Bell. And as in the Parable of the Talents, God rewards some servants for their profitability (materially or spiritually or both), and He punishes others for their failure to use what He’s given.
Thus, the roles we find ourselves in are rarely fixed, and indeed, the more a society encourages the freedom that Scripture requires, the more social mobility one sees. Failures become legends. Billionaires go bankrupt.
Nothing is static in God’s economy, spiritually or materially, but over time He is always growing His spiritual and material investment. So He always requires profitability of His stewards, regardless of their current circumstances, with whatever He may have given them.
He can do this because all of it, and all of us, belong to Him.
Now delegation provides enormous freedom of action. If one should choose to “hold all things in common”, as the Jerusalem church (but only the Jerusalem church) did in the First Century, that’s within the servant’s delegated authority (although the terrible results at Jerusalem suggest that one should reconsider).
What is not within anyone’s authority is to steal. And “anyone” includes the state.
God establishes the state and recognizes the legitimacy of taxes. But in 1 Samuel 8, He limits the taxing power far more than moderns do, much as He only requires 10% (the tithe) at church. Again, He can make these rules: it all belongs to Him.
And while governments, like churches and families, are indeed delegated some powers that individuals do not possess, God restricts that authority as well (ask Saul, or Uzziah). The only nationalization of a private business ever depicted in Israel — Ahab and Jezebel’s seizing of Naboth's vineyard — is portrayed as wicked, not as "social justice".
Theft is still theft if carried out by groups of people, not just by individuals. The Bible calls it “oppression”.
On the positive side, it is Paul's illustration of the different parts in the Body of Christ, and God's repeated assertion that those parts — us — are differently gifted, which forms the basis of the breakthrough concept of the Division of Labor.
This key intellectual insight enabled not only the Industrial Revolution but the unprecedented hockey stick spike in global living standards since the 18th Century.
Which is to say, had prior generations taken Scripture more seriously, and applied it more comprehensively, the ancient Irish might have had iPhones, the Romans rockets.
At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, as had been true for millennia before, 94% of the world's population lived in extreme poverty (less than a dollar a day in current dollars). In the comparatively brief time since, that percentage has almost flipped.
But this is not to be measured in mere money: rather, it should be seen in the reduction of human suffering, the establishment of education, the increase in our life expectancy (from just 47 in 1900 to 82 today), or in Biblical terms, the pushing back against the Curse.
From the Creation Mandate to Proverbs 31 to the Parable of the Talents, Scripture encourages thrift, investment, entrepreneurship, and the multiplication of capital. Nowhere does it suggest equality of outcomes, not even in Heaven.
And this is with reason. God has made each of us an individual. He has different plans for each of us. And He weaves all of those together into the tapestry of His creation.
Statist regimentation obliterates that beauty in a sea of uniformity, and of uniform misery.
The Word counsels obedience to government in Romans 13, but it also places limits on that obedience, most obviously in the Apostles' rebuke to the Sanhedrin in Acts 5 ("We must obey God rather than men"). God’s boundaries apply to God’s property. Unlawful orders must be disobeyed, because God’s authority over His own property is higher than any person’s.
This is intentional, and extraordinary, on God’s part. While individual wealthy people might and will act sinfully, the concentration of most or all assets in the state results in the state’s deification: it becomes the dispenser of all blessings and curses, and as its absolute power corrupts it absolutely, it acts with the aspirations to godhood God shows us in Nimrod, Pharaoh and Caesar.
This is exactly why statist regimes have hated God’s church in all eras. Christianity asserts rights that belong only to a power they cannot control, and freedoms He has made inalienable from each individual.
This the Socialist cannot bear.
By contrast, the positive impact of private property is extraordinary. In Capitalism, no man may get ahead except by solving other people’s problems, better and more cheaply than others.
Indeed, the market incentivizes even the basest and greediest of men to seek out those other people’s problems, and expend their own time and treasure to creatively solve them, all while requiring no one to accept their proposed solution. Buggies were good, cars were better, with different kinds for every need.
The system of private property and competitive markets makes following the Golden Rule, something the sin nature resists, profitable. It causes society to abandon force in favor of persuasion. It harnesses the strong to serve the weak, the precise opposite of top-down Socialism.
Capitalism is the systemic implementation of the Creation Mandate and the Second Greatest Commandment, no matter how much sinners may abuse the freedom it establishes.
And no matter how adorned by good intentions, Socialism is the systemic violation of the 8th and 10th Commandments, if not all the rest. It is the very essence of oppression. And ultimately, it robs God.
Don't pretend Christ has no opinion on economic matters. Christ, the Creator of all things, the incarnate Word Who breathed all Scripture, has told us His opinion from Genesis to Revelation.
Too many among us just like maintaining enough wiggle room to envy and steal, whether individually or through the state.
“Why the gigantic effort to destroy the Jews? Where does antisemitism REALLY come from?
All the explanations you've heard over the years are dead wrong. "Scapegoats." "People are jealous." "Jews are just too different." All wrong. Remember where the Law of Moses comes from. what was its political context?
It was a slave revolt.
The Israelites were slaves of Pharaoh, and with G-d's help, led by Moses. they organised a revolt. They escaped to freedom in the Sinai Desert. Once free, they received from G-d a new law, the law of the escaped slaves.
This was a law designed to end oppression. Its influence over 30 centuries transformed the most cruel, repressive, and unequal societies on earth, the ancient Greco-Roman world, into the most humane and democratic ones the world has ever known.
Those ancient societies were psychopathic. They found pleasure in watching human beings torn apart by lions as entertainment. The Jews transformed those societies, the worst the world had seen, into the best we have ever had: the modern democratic Western societies.
How do people who want to make us slaves feel about the Jewish movement?
They hate it.
They tell us that the ancient Greeks and Romans "taught us democracy." False. A census from the Athenian Empire in the late 4th century BCE recorded 21,000 citizens, 10,000 medics (semi-free residents. half-slaves). and 400,000 slaves. That was not a democracy.
It was a slave society. And they were incredibly cruel. The Greeks had death camps, the mines south of Athens, where tens of thousands of slaves were forced underground again and again until they dropped dead. Those were the Greeks.
Throughout history, those who wanted to enslave societies have always recognized the Jewish movement as their enemy, because the Jews taught the West that we can be free. and they gave us a system of ethics and law that helps us fight oppression.
Modern democracy does not come from the Greeks. It comes from Leviticus 19:18. which Rabbi Hillel the Elder, in the first century BCE, identified as the principle from which the entire Torah and halakha flow:
"You shall love your neighbour as yourself."
Once you accept that you must love your neighbor as yourself, all of modern Western political thought follows. because that principle demands that we all be equal under the law, that we all have political representation, and that we all have equal access to the courts.
That is the foundation of modern democracy.
The Greeks, by contrast, believed they were a superior people and that "barbarians" were born to be enslaved. That was their political theory, they were fundamental racists. The reason October 7th happened, the reason the holocaust happened, is that those who wish to enslave societies understand that the Jewish movement stands between the freedom of the West and slavery.
The day Westerners understand that fighting antisemitism is the same thing as self-defense, everything will change.
Because the fight against antisemitism is the fight for freedom.”
- Francisco Gil White
Thank you @Stephen71290801
https://t.co/E4ny9oYrxA
MUST-WATCH: Born in Iran, Raised in Hatred—How One Man Found Freedom in Truth! ✝️
Born and raised in Iran as a Shia Muslim, this man’s powerful testimony exposes the hatred he was taught and how truth set him free. I’m so blessed to have come across this video. Watch and share 🙏
by far the most devastating in memoriam.
Flashback: Pat Condell tells Muslims to shove their Islamophobia, Jihad and Sharia.
He will not convert. He will not submit. He will not pretend to respect a doctrine that demands obedience through fear.
Do you agree with him?
https://t.co/PjFdQ6ROGV
The Left is wrong about the Right—and many of you are so emotionally charged that you can’t see what’s truly at stake.
You claim conservatives can’t be Christians because we “don’t care.”
That we hate immigrants.
That we despise the poor.
That we’re indifferent to suffering.
That we’re acting contrary to the Bible.
That’s not reasoning. That’s caricature.
It’s far easier to demonize than to engage.
We are NOT indifferent to suffering.
We are NOT okay with children being exploited.
We are NOT fine with families in crisis.
But here is what you refuse to acknowledge:
Secure borders are not hatred—they are responsibility.
Law and order are not oppression—they are protection.
A functioning nation is not cruelty—it is the foundation for any real compassion.
A nation without borders descends into chaos.
And chaos always devastates the poor first.
You cannot sustain compassion without structure.
You cannot extend mercy without stability.
We do not believe government is humanity’s savior.
We believe its proper role is to protect individual rights, defend the borders, and preserve liberty—not to supplant the Church, the family, or personal responsibility.
You say we don’t care about feeding the hungry?
Christians fed the hungry long before federal welfare existed.
Hospitals? Largely founded by the Church.
Food pantries, orphan care, disaster relief? Driven by believers and faith-based organizations.
The Salvation Army never waited for a congressional appropriation to serve the needy.
True compassion was never outsourced to the state.
Here is the real divide:
You believe compassion must be legislated.
We believe it must be lived.
You believe virtue can be coerced.
We believe virtue must be chosen.
When you grant government unlimited power in the name of “helping people,” you do not get compassion.
You get bureaucracy, dependency, corruption, and control.
Stop weaponizing empathy to shut down disagreement.
Stop labeling anyone who rejects your policy prescriptions as “heartless.”
We want:
Safe neighborhoods
Legal, orderly immigration
Strong families
Vibrant, faithful churches
Local solutions
Personal accountability
We absolutely want to help people—but we reject the notion that the only way to do so is to endlessly expand centralized power.
That is not compassion.
That is control wearing compassion’s mask.
Many of you are so politically emotional that you can no longer distinguish the two.
Be clear-headed.
Stop reacting out of feeling alone.
Start thinking about long-term consequences.
Because if you keep trading liberty for momentary emotional comfort, the future you wake up to will not be kind.
If this doesn’t hit you right in the feels I don’t know what will.
“Dear Nike. Why won’t you stand up for me? Boys are stealing our opportunities.”
https://t.co/ST02I1fny5
Even the slogans of the secular Left — justice, equality, human rights — are cut flowers from Christian soil. They survive for a time, beautiful in form but severed from their roots. Appropriately, Os Guinness calls Western civilization a “cut flower civilization.”
You can enjoy its beauty for a while, but cut flowers die. The only way to keep them alive is to replant them in the soil of faith. No small job description.
We, the inheritors of Christendom, still breathe the fragrance of a garden planted two thousand years ago. Our laws, liberties, even our language of compassion — all of it blooms from the gospel of Jesus Christ. But when we remove the root, when we deny Christ’s dominion, the petals fall one by one.
Western civilization is dying not because it is old but because it is uprooted. The Church’s task is not to admire the vase but to return to the Garden — to water the roots, to guard the soil, and to fight for what remains alive.
@BskiMike22802 This is an excellent history lesson!
@virgilwalker Wow!!!!
Marco Rubio just gave one of the most profound speeches in Germany. Afterwards, leaders stood to their feet.
@DrewPavlou What are the names of the head pastors at Kings Chapel Anchorage
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