A Witness and a Warning

Obviously you are an Obama supporter and refuse to accept the truth. Here are some actual facts to open your mind to the truth:

1) Living in poverty does not take away your agency! I have lived on both ends of the spectrum, both in poverty and wealth. My wealth was brought about because of my agency to be an entrepreneur.

2) You misunderstand the difference between Socialism and the Law of Consecration! There was no poor among the people of the City of Enoch because of the righteousness of the people to live the law of Consecration.

3) The Earned Income Tax Credit is Socialism! A progressive tax system like we currently have is socialism, where the wealthiest pay a much higher percentage of taxes than do the poor, and where the poor receive money and pay no taxes at all.

4) Barack Obama has an absolute agenda to redistribute wealth! In his own words, he has said: “I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.” That IS Socialism.

5) Ezra Taft Benson said that wealth distribution is socialism! President Benson, as an apostle, prophet, seer, and revelator, stated the following: “Many are now advocating that which has become a general practice since the early 1930s: a redistribution of wealth through the federal tax system. That, by definition, is socialism!”

The words that spreading the wealth equals socialism are not my words; they were declared by a prophet of God!

If poverty can impinge on agency, then perhaps you can acknowledge that there is a moral imperative to eradicate poverty. It was, after all, a characteristic of the City of Enoch (“there were no poor among them”). There must be systems and institutions of administration that can work at the scale of the problem. Arguably, federal and state governments are the only institutions of sufficient scale and with the appropriate charter for addressing issues of intense poverty.

The Earned Income Tax Credit has broad bipartisan support in our country today. If Reagan and Bush supported it, I would expect that it wouldn’t be too distasteful to you. If you object to a program like the Earned Income Tax Credit on the grounds of it being a socialistic program of the United States, that is one thing. You might direct your energies to abolish it, though you may find it difficult for any elected official to take up that cause. Obama has no sinister agenda to redistribute wealth according to any “socialist” philosophy.