When my oldest daughter Breana was 7 years of age attending Trinity Christian Academy, I asked her if she knew the Ten Commandments? She told me she did, so I asked her to tell me them in any order. Breana put her finger to her mouth and tilted her head slightly and said; "1, 7, 4, 5, 9, 3, 10, 2, 8 and 6! She was so excited and so was I!? Really, we are going to look at the 8th Commandment and how it relates to government bailouts.
The Ten Commandments, called God's Law or The Law of Moses, is the foundation of Common Law which is the foundation of our Constitution, not to mention that it is "The Standard for Judgement".
The 8th Commandment is "Thou shall not Steal". When a government takes its taxes and against the peoples will, gives the money to a failing business - there are three words that come to my mind:
1. Theft
2. Socialism
The beloved character of Robin Hood was a cleverly disguised communist who "took from the rich and gave to the poor". An exciting tail of "good v evil""? WHAT! No, a clever story to further desensitize westerners to a marxist state of living. Look where we are today - socialized medicine, big government - small economy. Gosh Wilber, who would have thunk it!
It is not the governments place to run auto companies, fund business that should fail. The failings of these business' is called "Economic Correction". It will occur from time to time when we out-market ourselves because of too high of cost, too high of wages and poor management.
The job of taking money and giving it to the needy has always been the Churches responsibilities. We are commanded to feed the poor and care for the widows and orphans. We gave that responsibility away to the government and now we are all paying for it - no pun intended.
You can't steal money and then give it to a "good" cause and think that is ok. The ends does not justify the means!
