“For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away form the faith and pierced themselves through and through with many sorrows.” 1 Timothy 6:10
Someone once remarked that politicians get elected because people are economically ignorant. That seems to be an undeniable fact these days. Let’s try and restore some sanity.
First, the official inflation rate is 6.5%. If judged by the standard used in the 80’s, the rate is far higher, but that’s another story for another day. At first, the powers that be, those sages in Washington, told us it was “transitory.” They said the rate of increase would level off. Oh, and they blame the “reopening” of the economy after shutdowns, never bothering to mention that they’re the ones who did that, nor how that would cause systemic price increases. They also keep promising that they’ll “taper” the Fed’s bond purchases (the fancy means of money printing that’s largely responsible for the inflation in the first place) and begin to “normalize” interest rates to contain the inflation they say is no big deal.
It’s all lies. And lies, by the way, are the hallmark of the Devil (John 8:44) and his favorite modern spawn, the socialist state.
Right now the markets believe them mainly because they’re drunk on the easy money, low interest rates, and soaring tech stocks. They want to believe them. They want to believe that adults are in charge. They want to believe that sane people are at the wheel. The problem is that in order to fight inflation the Fed must raise interest rates and the government must slow the spending. But the Fed can’t raise interest rates anymore then the addict can quit. The entire American economy is based on the funny money schemes driving the inflation and if it’s cut off, the markets will react the way a person would who’s denied their fix.
The truth is that both the big cats in the market and the little guy with his/her stimulus check are drunk on funny money. The love of money is the root of all evil, right? Not the love of production. Not the love of engineering, farming, starting businesses, or anything else that’s productive. It’s the love of getting something without having worked for it that’s the problem. To that end, America is drunk on the sins of greed and theft. Yes, the theft is fancy and indirect, run by government schemes, covered by media and education lies, but it’s still theft.
Second, there’s the issue of shortages. Again, this is blamed on a host of things, chiefly, the so-called reopening. But we’re starting to hear rumblings of things like “the supply chain” from the press. Do you know what that means? Are you sure you wanna know?
It’s socialism. And socialism can only exist where the sins of greed, theft and deceit dominate a culture.
Remember seeing photos of empty shelves in communist countries? Our poor education has left us unable to connect the dots. We see a photo of communist Cuba and the empty shelf and think, “ah…communism” without understanding the logical connection to the inflation and scarcity of goods. We don’t see it because our education/media cartel hit us with so many false narratives that the truth is obscured.
Again, it’s socialism.
And we’re staring into the abyss (economically speaking anyway).
When the COVID lockdowns started we shared a blog on the fiscal insanity of such a proposition. We pointed out the grave impact it would have if we stopped productive activities. We also noted that, beside the unbiblical nature of lockdowns and the quarantine of the healthy for the reason that they “might infect someone”, was also without historic precedent. Indeed, it had never been done before – and for good reason. It was literally insane. We assured you, dear reader, that inflation would result and that government would never give up the power unless forced to. It’s the nature of sin to play god, which is the primary reason that everyone needs to stay in their lane.
Have you ever heard of supply chain before? Was the term in popular use? No. You know why? Because the state media is running the con to obscure the consequences of socialism. Shortages and inflation must always result from state control of property. The propaganda you’re reading and hearing is designed to cover it up.
God’s plan for wealth is simple. First, productivity through work. That work produces a product or service that others need and will pay for. A righteous economy is one where all transactions are “win-win” and no one is forced or defrauded. The only time the state has any business being involved with any economic transaction – any at all – is when there’s been violence or fraud.
Here’s how a biblical economy works.
If I grow apples and you want some, I ask you to pay for them. I’ve put work into cultivating an apple farm and that’s precluded me from doing other stuff, so I’ll happily exchange the apple you want for money through which I can purchase other things I couldn’t get because I was growing all those apples. You’ve been doing other stuff too and your money represents real work you’ve done to serve your neighbors. I want the money, you want the apples. That’s a win-win.
But if you trespass on my property to steal my apples, that’s a lose-win. You get the apples and I get nothing. On the contrary, if I agree to deliver apples to you after you pay me and then renege on the deal, it’s a win-lose. I got the money and you ain’t go no apples. In both of these cases, there’s been a violation of God’s righteous commandment against stealing. His provision for that is for the civil magistrate to punish the thief.
Simple, right?
But if the government decides that my employees can’t work because there’s a virus going around, I won’t have apples, nor money. Neither will my employees have income to buy other producer’s stuff. That causes shortages. Then, to correct this problem of starvation and resulting death because everyone is broke, if the government sends out stimmy (stimulus) checks (funny money that wasn’t saved in the first place) we’ll have lots of cash, yes. What we won’t have is enough apples. So, because there’s more cash and less apples, you have shortages and inflation. The apples there are cost more.
Simple.
And if you pay people with more of that funny money to stay home (unemployment), you produce more shortages. On and on it goes.
God’s plan is always simple and direct. Man’s plan is always convoluted because he creates a problem by playing god (sinning) and then embarks on an infinite series of “corrective” measures.
Work to produce. Earn money. Save the money. Invest the money in other productive enterprises, which inspires and enables even more productive work. That’s the biblical plan.
It’s the only plan that works. Sin doesn’t like it because it forces us to serve our neighbor.
All other plans are doomed because they violate God’s law by creating lose-win/win-lose scenarios. Socialist schemes eviscerate the commandments against theft and coveting. Then, to cover up their nonsense, the government and media, as well as the sin-sick voters who cheer on the whole mess, violate the commandment against lying by speaking of things like the supply-chain with the intent to cover their nefarious tracks. Inflation isn’t a mystery. It’s the result of the state acting outside of its God-given lane, stealing from citizens, and printing money. To say otherwise is a lie.
The answer to all of it is conformity to the word/law of God and repentance of our greed. We must repent of our polytheism, that is to say, our believing that the state has godlike power to determine right and wrong outside of the word of God. We must turn from our sinful reliance, not on our provider God, but on the state. To rely on the state for our future and economic health is a sure sign of idolatry and violation of the the first commandment.
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