Volume 9, Issue 16
People refusing to reenter the workforce have a distorted reality of how an economic system functions and the true purpose of a sound economic opportunity. It is not just financial support that is important in life, but also the spiritual fulfillment of a meaningful job.
Government exists to facilitate economic independence. Financial assistance during the Covid recovery is critical and necessary. However, it was never intended to last forever. Citizens must understand that a sound economic system is based upon free choice. Citizens choose a service or a product that they want for their own personal needs. An individual is fulfilled when he or she produces a service or product someone wants by their own freedom of choice. A person is rewarded with economic independence when the job performed meets the need of another individual’s choice.
Government can provide bridge financing to support a person to get back on their feet. Yet, the exercise must be taken seriously by the individual to become trained, capitalized, or supported in performing a job or service demanded by the public. Then, and only then, is a person truly economically free.
There is growing sentiment in society to flirt with socialism or communism. The question is asked, isn’t China winning? The answer is no, both economically and spiritually. But isn’t China back to 80% of the full force and effect of their economic output? Yes, but only if you believe in total government control.
In China, major middle-class purchases are subsidized by the government. The currency is controlled and managed in a way to underwrite these subsidies without any personal choice from the public. Originally, China’s goal was to build a middle class equal in purchasing power to the United States. They have yet to achieve this without massive subsidies. The Chinese government owns 30% of the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Equity prices are managed through government manipulation.
In China, the public does exactly what they're told, when they’re told, without protest. During the Covid crisis, the nation went into total lockdown. No one moved. In certain provinces, Marshall law was enforced. If you disobeyed, you were locked up or you disappeared. Provisional governors did not argue face mask mandates. Governors and mayors did not independently determine when to shut down businesses or reopen the local economies. There is no shared authority between the federal government, states, and cities. China is not a republic of shared laws. There is only the state and it is absolutely dictatorial. An individual has no constitutional rights against the state and no avenue for regress in a district court.
Think about this. For the government to dictate the circumstances of a service or product that a person provides, and that someone in society must buy it or use it at a price set by government formulas, is dictation on three levels. One, you will take the job you’re told to take whether you like it or not. Two, as a consumer, you will use the service or buy the product whether you like it or not. Three, you will receive income and purchase products based on a price set by the government whether you like it or not. This is not independence in choice. This is not independence in pursuit of happiness. This is not independence based on freedom. And, this is not spiritual freedom.
Believing that communism as a form of government provides economic happiness is beyond distortion of reality, it is naively delusional.
The Christian faith is based upon the doctrine of free will. A system that leverages all decisions by the public through the unrestricted individual choice of free will is the system that enriches the talents, and therefore the self-worth of each individual. This also applies to economic decisions and human labor. Mankind was designed to work and reach fulfillment in a meaningful job. The best job is one in which a fellow human being is also fulfilled in his or her free choice to purchase or use the product or service. A free enterprise system facilitated by government for the commitment to freedom, in general, allows for individuals serving each other, not the state, to realize spiritual economic freedom.
The United States of America’s economic system is based on free enterprise, freedom of choice, and freedom of religion.
In a communist state, God must be outlawed from society. Why? Because economic spiritual freedom is the antithesis of the objective of the state. For in communism, the purpose is not the fulfillment of the individual, but the enlarged overall maintained power of the government.
Economic spiritual freedom depends upon universal economic free choice. Socialism impedes economic spiritual freedom through over-regulation. Communism eliminates economic spiritual freedom through disregard for free choice.
The Covid relief packages now being administered in the United States will run out someday. Socialism and communism will run their courses and end badly. Citizens must utilize relief packages as a support mechanism to get back into the vocation of their choice. Every citizen should be incentivized to go back to work as soon as possible. Government subsidies can become a narcotic habit. It is critical for one to redefine, reconstitute, and redevelop one’s economic skill set.
Only in the United States do we as citizens still have the authority, through the democratic process, to take matters of economic destiny into our own hands. This authority and this destiny rest upon a critical understanding. A clarity that a spiritual economic faith is completed only through freedom and free choice, facilitated by the government, but not totally dependent upon it. Only through service to each other, decided by each other, and confirmed by our commitment to each other, will we ever as individuals be economically fulfilled in our pursuit of happiness.
Becoming spiritually economically independent is the essential foundation for the pursuit of happiness.
My name is Marc Nuttle and this is what I believe.
What do you believe?