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You guys have some great quotes like the ones from president Benson about government programs. Can you post a bibliography for all non-standard works references so we can steal those quotes for our own liberty advocacy arsenal?
http://speeches.byu.edu/reader/reader.php?id=6985
See the 4th paragraph.
I listened to your podcast and I would like to know how you feel about something that is literally making me heartsick. I have a guilty feeling about this, but at the same time, I feel that I am justified…here’s my dilemma.
I am a Vietnam veteran who was exposed to Agent Orange. The Department of Veterans Affairs says that Vietnam veterans who were exposed to Agent Orange (that definition includes ALL veterans who stepped foot on Vietnamese soil) are eligible to be compensated for various diseases and medical conditions should the veteran ever develop them at any time subsequent to his/her service in Vietnam.
I developed Type II diabetes (one of the health conditions recognized as being “presumptively” caused by exposure to the dioxin found in Agent Orange). Along with the diabetes, I developed peripheral neuropathy in my feet which causes a lot of pain in my feet; this pain eventually caused me to leave my employment as a barge tankerman because I couldn’t do the walking necessary to do the job. I want to point out that I have 4 brothers and 2 sisters…none of them have diabetes, nor did my parents or grandparents. I am the only one! I can’t prove that I got the diabetes from the Agent Orange exposure…but it seems that if I have it and the rest of my immediate family doesn’t, and I am the only one that went to Vietnam, it’s a pretty fair bet that the Agent Orange is responsible…or am I all wrong?
I receive a veterans disability compensation of 70% disabled…which amounts to about $1200 a month. Is it wrong for me to accept this payment?
The same goes for people on Social Security Disability…they are forced to ,pay into a system that is termed Social Security Insurance, yet the moment they are “awarded” a favorable decision, it becomes “public assistance”! The cruelty of this sort of sleight of hand is beyond measure. We are forced to “participate” in these government swindles and then they change everything as soon as someone qualifies to receive benefits from what they thought was an insurance contract!
If I am wrong about accepting money from these programs, would you please explain how someone who takes a “government job” is any different from me? They take these “jobs” because there isn’t any real work expected from them…just, basically, make work. Plenty of time off and plenty of sick days and vacations…and of course, their retirement plans are top notch!!! How is that any different from a veteran on a military disability program?
Or a banker who creates money out of the thinnest of thin air and charges interest for doing so?
The people who do the real work in this society aren’t paid enough to support a family…two, or three people need to team up to make enough money unless they can find a job as a professional or a government job.
I’ve been trying desperately to seek other work…I went to a community college and got an Associate’s Degree in a techniocal field and no one would hire me. What are we supposed to do? You should help provide a country where we have good paying jobs for the people … instead we have a government that ships all of our jobs overseas and the ones they can’t ship overseas, they hire foreign workers thru H-1B visa programs. Where is it going to end for the current legal American citizens?
It’s easy to say that we aren’t supposed to have social programs, but it’s a horse of a different color if there aren’t any decent jobs for people. 1 out of 8 working people are receiving food stamps…25% of the children in this country belong to families receiving food stamps. Having a job in this country doesn’t mean that you’re going to be able to support yourself and your family…what are we supposed to do?
I’m 61…I’ve tried to learn how to trade foreign currencies because I don’t know what else to do.
There is a movement afoot called Social Credit…it’s an entirely different way to bring money into circulation. It will require the elimination of the federal reserve system as we know it. I believe that this will go a long way towards solving some of the fundamental wrongs that have been committed against the people of this world by the banking system that we currently have in place. It will also help to bring an end to war and it will fulfill the prophecy of Isaiah 13:12.