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Old 08-28-2002, 05:26 PM   #1
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because, according to <a href="http://www.chalcedon.edu/report/2002aug/johnson.shtml" target="_blank">this article,</a> economic turnaround is finally possible!

Who needs Alan Greenspan when all we need to do is

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individually repent and continually pray for cultural repentance at all levels, engage in our own economic activity and political action, educate our neighbors and future generations, and pray that God's rock will once again become the salt and light in our economy.
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To restate the directive:

1. Beg for assistance.
2. Get to work.
3. Work in the salt mines.

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I, for one, am buying stock in sodium!
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The state must return to a true and Biblical free market economy in philosophy as well as practice. ... This means ending all business regulatory practices and privatizating all industries (i.e., banking, currency, transportation, education, and retirement benefits). ... After removing all of our unbiblical regulatory law, we must replace it with Biblical contract law. ... Unbiblical government financing must be eliminated, whether it is the graduated income, excise, property, death, unemployment, worker's compensation, Medicare, Social Security, or capital gains taxes, as well as debt financing and theft through inflation. ...
It's absolutely amazing to learn that the Bible is so detailed and specific about privatization, the banking system, capital gains tax, Medicare, worker's compensation, business regulatory policy ... oh wait, how silly of me. It just dawned on me that the Bible says nothing about business regulatory policy, so any regulation must be unbiblical. How short sighted of me to have missed that all this time!

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Joe Johnson is a business consultant and President of the Business Reform Foundation. He holds an MBA in Executive Business Management and a BA in Business Administration and Economics from Ashland University.
<a href="http://www.business-reform.com/" target="_blank">http://www.business-reform.com/</a>

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Old 08-28-2002, 06:17 PM   #5
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Good grief...that just makes me feel sick. "Unbiblical government"...oh hahahaha

Yes, it's so devillishly Unchristian to want things like social security, universal healthcare etc....to Hell with the poor and the dirty!
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Old 08-28-2002, 06:24 PM   #6
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Exodus 22:25 seemingly forbids charging interest on loans.

Deuteronomy 24:6 forbids demanding excessive collaterial for loans.

I'm sure that one can find other examples of regulation of business in the Bible.
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It's absolutely amazing to learn that the Bible is so detailed and specific about privatization, the banking system, capital gains tax, Medicare, worker's compensation, business regulatory policy ...
Hee hee hee!

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Exodus 22:25 seemingly forbids charging interest on loans.
So the student loan people at Sallie Mae really ARE evil!
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Old 08-29-2002, 05:04 AM   #8
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So the student loan people at Sallie Mae really ARE evil!</strong>

I'm sure you didn't need a bible to tell you that.


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