January 16, 2010
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Not yours to give? I'll give, but not yours.
Charity is another word for Love. If we have no charity our faith is in vain. When we love, we are to love others as ourselves. When we love another we provide nourishment, physical care, and we execute God's laws. We love our neighbor by respecting God's ten commandments which say "You shall not..." Each of these commandments of shall nots also imply that there is a requirement (see the questions about required) saying "you shall do" also these things revealed by God. When someone is hurting, what do we do? We share their hurts with them, just as we would do in sharing the times of rejoicing.
The U.S. Government is not a benevolent organization. Our Constitution is suppose to be respected and upheld, we are not to spend the peoples money on charity. Charity is the job of the Church, beginning with the individual, then family and businesses. Businesses are an extension of the authority of the family. Civil government is NOT a part of this, it is not the role of civil government.
Charity is a form of sacrifice, civil government can not make sacrifice, nor share in the misery or rejoice in times of joy. it can do none of these. The people as individuals can sacrifice but not the individual politician. It is with no effort that a politician will take another's money and spread the "charity" with another's money. How is this benevolence, and not theft? Taking from a people by force and giving to others via government authority is a form of organized crime.
This is why the restrictions were placed into the constitution, to prohibit representatives from giving tax money away, just as the Obama heath insurance is theft. It prohibits the civil magistrate from being a hero to the people. Promoting the welfare of a people is not meant to benefit just a group of people or a specific geographical area, but rather the people as a whole, such as national defense. The spending which congress can do is spelled out in the Constituion and not in the heart felt feelings of sorrow for a people suffering.
If you deny the restriction which the U. S. Constitution has, then how much are we as a nation suppose to give to Haiti? What will be the goal? What part of Haiti was actually damaged by the earthquake, will that not matter, or are you going to fix ALL of Haiti? There is no way to know how much you could sink into this tragic event. Solutions are hampered when governmental charity forces out the free market. It becomes wastefull, non-strategic and benefiting mostly corrupt or inefficient behaviors.
NO, the government of Obama should not (nor should have Bush) be donating tax money but possibly to be there to protect the American people seeing that there is no structured government to speak of in Haiti currently. If it were left up to the free market then the efficiency of a free market will squeeze the best service and charity out of a dollar. New businesses should be encouraged to take over through possible purchases or via assisting existing businesses and markets to rebuild. Let the free market into Haiti and it will be turned around.
One organization which should be left out is the Roman church and its leftist representative Aristide who was mentioning a possible coming back into Haiti to "help". He's somewhere between Castro and Chavas as far as government is concerned. Liberation theology is what's hurting the people of Haiti and is not a solution and thus neither would be Aristide..
The American people will give, the American Churches will work with the contributions and assist the people of Haiti and help them to help themselves. We don't want tyranical governments to be fighting for a take over now with the people hurting, they'll need protection, but that will be upto the other six million people living there to learn to govern themselves.
Have a blessed day!
