If you hate poverty, you should love capitalism

We all hear people complain about capitalism and they will use the words, "Capitalism is all about greed." That person may have I am the 99% t-shirt.
I will share some facts to that person and anyone who wants to listen.
The percentage of people that are living in a global poverty rate has gone done 80% since 1970.
Before the year of 1970, one in every four people were living on a dollar per day.
If you want some really fact, there are one in every twenty people that live on a dollar a day.
This is a great achievement in mankind. How did this happened.
Do you think that the United Nations had a great policy? Was it the great amount of money in US Aid to other countries? Did it came from the International Monetary Fund? The World Bank?
Did it came from Stimulus Spending? Or maybe a popular idea like Governmental Retribution?
They are all great guesses but they are all wrong. It was capitalism.
Billions of people have got out of poverty because of capitalism.
I will have a list of five items. They are Globalization, Free Trade, Property Rights, the Rule of Law and Entrepreneurship.
Globalization is the ever-increasing ability to move goods, people, and ideas from one distant land to another.
Free Trade open access to market and people from all over the world.
Property Rights ensuring that what belongs to you can't be taken away from the government.
The Rule of Law safeguards contracts assuring they will be respected and live up to whether if you live in Mexico or Europe.
Entrepreneurship the creativity of free people to dream up new products to improve people lives.
If you read history, East Asia accepted these ideas after World War Two. It is because United States Global Diplomatic and Military presence.
The ideals of Free Enterprise and global leadership, central to Capitalism and American Conservatism.  These ideas are the reason that people are living better.
The United States has blessed many people and nations.
If these American Conservative Ideas has done so well, why do the ideas are not growing in the younger generation, people of every countries, minorities, people that want to help the poor?
The person from another country can say, "Unleash the power." The person that wants to help the poor can say, "on behalf of the weak."
The true story is that Capitalism  is not picking up new followers. Many people think that Capitalism will fade in the United States like it has in Europe.
Harvard study has said that the people that are 18-29 has a 40% favorable view on Capitalism.
What explains the great gap between the great results of Capitalism and it popularity?
Why does Capitalism have became a "curse word"?
The defender of Capitalism has done a bad job explaining the greatness of this idea so the younger generation don't know the whole story. They don't share that it has saved many people from not dying from not having food.
There is an survey that 84% of the people in the United States don't know that fact of the great progress that Capitalism has done to help the world.
Two thirds have a thought that it has gotten worst and that is not true.
If you compare the results from Capitalism to Communism or Socialism, Capitalism has done better. 
We need a system that works while we are sleeping, foundation of human prosperity.
More Capitalism means more growth.
If you want to help the poor, promote Capitalism.
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Can we trust the heart

I always hear, "trust your heart"
Can we burst into life?
If we bury not our desires?

I will be honest, my friend
I followed my heart
Then I did a shameful thing

Many of men believed they are good
They say love your wife
Then they cheated on her

Many women say they are honest
Business came around
They compromised their value

Have you said this will not happen?
Then you do the dreadful thing
So your heart is really good?

Hitler thought he did right
When he killed many of the Jews
So we all can be Hitler if not careful 

What can we trust and follow?
Mankind will deceive each other by heart
The Lord can purify that place

There is no truth outside of Bible and God
We must align our lives to Jesus
Then greatness will occur

If we exclude Jesus then bad
Bad things will happen
Do you do this in your life?

Feeling that you are forgotten?

Have you felt that you are pointless and the world is walking on you? I have felt this way and you will read about the feeling that King David had. You can relate but we need to follow his path to the right direction.
Psalm 13 is for you, for all the people that feel distant and the politicians will not help you.
King David felt all alone so he want a song to the Lord and this could be the best song that ever been written.
Verse one says, "How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?"
David was living in a time when the Lord felt all alone. He was anointed king of Israel but the current king of that time was going to kill him so he felt like a wanted man. There are times when it seems the world will kill you and that God is near. God is always faithful and emotions can lie so if you feel this way, cry out to God.
Verse two says, "How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and day after day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my enemy triumph over me?"
David fought against sorrow in his heart. Life doesn't always seem fair and God want us to be honest. David was East Coast honest. God is big enough to handle our emotions. Tell God your sad emotions and there is the beginning of healing. 
It seemed that the people that wanted to kill was winning. Christians that live in a Muslim controlled or Buddhist controlled countries can be treated with a harsh hand and feel alone. They face death many times.
Even in the United States, the culture will attack Bible believing people and it is a cool thing to do.    
There are times when people of faith have been put in the list of terrorist before.
It is always seems that the people that hate faith in Jesus will always win.
Verse three and four says, "Look on me and answer, Lord my God. Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death,  and my enemy will say, “I have overcome him,” and my foes will rejoice when I fall."
King David was at the end of the struggle with the possibility of death.  He realized that God was his only hope. God allows hard times so we can know that God is our only deliverance. 
Many people wanted King David to be dead.
There are groups that want to kill all the Christians in the Middle East. There are groups in India that want Christians to be killed. There are groups in the United States that want the church to be ended because they took a stand on gay marriage. They planted people in the churches so they could have the IRS tax exemption taken away and the media slanders the church all the time.
Verse five says, "But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation."
David knew that God was real and the he would be safe because he in the Lord's hand. We must know that, too.
In the end of the day, no matter if the government, group and other entity are after a person of faith. The truth is God will protect the person of faith.
Verse six says, "I will sing the Lord’s praise, for he has been good to me."
King David was feeling good, again. The secret is that he took his emotions to God and he was happy again.
I have learned this from my friends that needs to talk about something a couple days then after all the talking, the issue will be better.
We need a good friend to talk to and God is our best friend.
Do you know the Lord? Talk to Him. 
If you don't like the Bible or God then see that God is good. We all need Jesus and I pray that you will realize that someday.
Have a good day!

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Taxes are killing small business

No matter where you come from. What your job is or where you stand in politics, you have to pay taxes.
The government needs taxes to pay for schools, firefighters, and the military.
There are many types of taxes like income taxes, payroll taxes, and sales taxes. Individuals will pay taxes but companies pay taxes, too. Companies pay income taxes, too.
Corporation pays the US Corporation tax rate which is 35 percent. The highest in the developed world.
Ireland and Switzerland pays under 25 percent Corporation tax rates. This helps a competitive advantage.
There is another tax group that we are forgetting. We need to include small businesses.
There are 29 million in the United States and they employ 56 million people. They are 85 million people that depend on small businesses.
Small business are set up in sole proprietorship, partnerships or S-Corp.
Their taxes are not taxed at the Corporate rate but individual income to the owner that is why you might hear them called as "pass-throughs."
The small business can pay up to 40 percent in taxes and this does not include sales taxes and local taxes.
Small business are getting taxed higher than the big companies. Small business are getting taxed more in the United States more than any developed country in the world.
Why should you care?
High taxes hurt some business to grow and expand. They are forced to raise prices and maybe to trim jobs to remain in their budgets.
If someday that taxes are lowered for small business, growth of small businesses which helps with more jobs and boost the economy.
Here is an interesting fact, 2/3 of new jobs come from small business.
Lowering taxes can have a big effect on the economy for all Americans.
The next time, you hear about someone that want increase tax rates on businesses. Remember the small business that will be affect with the 85 million people that depend on these small businesses.

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I was voting

Voting time is here
We have chance to raise taxes
And it made me think

Jesus said we need to be faithful in small things
If we are good in the small then we will be large
But the government is the king of waste

People want an promotion at their job
But they will not work hard
They fail to understand Jesus

People want good friendships
But they are a one way street
And they are all alone

We vote in life by our actions
If we don't do the little things
Don't expect the big things

The culture is becoming lazy
We need to get uncomfortable
And rely on God for strength

He will guide us and we look to Him
Faithfulness comes from following Jesus
I hope my country will learn this

People are not good so we need to rely on this

There are governmental programs that are start up to help people but they really don't help anyone.
It seems that today that people are more concerned with their image and not others.
More people don't trust each other. I will examine what people should rely on.
I will look at Psalm 12.
Let's look at the first verse. It says, "Help, Lord, for no one is faithful anymore; those who are loyal have vanished from the human race."
I have said this lately to my Lord when I pray. It seems that people are in love with their sins and forget other people. I don't think that anyone is really faithful because sin will limit you as a person.
The cultures have increased in sinning so the culture is in lack and I am including the people that are supposing following the Lord Jesus.
I will look at the second verse. It says, "Everyone lies to their neighbor; they flatter with their lips but harbor deception in their hearts." 
The world is in a post-Christian world so truth are just nice words that mean nothing. We say things to make people happy but we don't back it up.  We say that we love but we have no foundation.
We say that we love truth and we allow people to be happy. We really don't believe that in the world and in the church. The church don't make a stand on marriage between a man and woman alone.
The church don't make a stand on the issue on men in women locker room because they fear the culture. The church don't really believe the Bible so they will water it down.
I will examine verses three and four. They say, "May the Lord silence all flattering lips and every boastful tongue—those who say, 'By our tongues we will prevail; our own lips will defend us—who is lord over us?”
The Lord will bring down the prideful thought of mankind and He is not playing around. If a person is pushing something that goes against the Bible, God will judge that person.  That person may not he will be trouble but he will be in trouble after he dies. That person needs to get right with Jesus.
I will save you heartache, give up sin and follow the Lord.
I will examine verse five. It says, "Because the poor are plundered and the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the Lord.  “I will protect them from those who malign them.”
The poor are mistreated by the governments in the world including in the United States and the needy are not getting the true help in this world. God will do the best job and we must keep on praying for a movement of God and not works from secular governments. 
It will examine verse six. It says, "And the words of the Lord are flawless, like silver purified in a crucible, like gold refined seven times."
People will listen to many podcasts and really don't know what is true. You can go on Youtube and get really confuse. If you go to the Bible, there is truth. We can grow as a person and culture if we embrace the Jesus and the Bible.
I will examine verses 7-8. They say, "You, Lord, will keep the needy safe and will protect us forever from the wicked, who freely strut about when what is vile is honored by the human race."
The Lord will keep the needy safe because he loves. There are people that think the baby in the womb are just a blob. That is not true. He loves the unborn. He looks over the needy in the womb. 
God will judge the people and group that promote abortion.  People brag now but they will cry when they will see God face to face. But I have good news. We can turn from our sins and go to Jesus. He loves you but He is fair.

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Government can't fix healthcare

Why is the government so bad at healthcare? They had worked on it for 75 years and so don't know what they are doing. The care is expensive and the access is okay. It is also made in bureaucracy. It has a lot of waste within the system. Then Obamacare was supposed to fixed all the issues. The sad news is that healthcare didn't get better. Why?
The government is a third party payer. Let say a person will buy something. The person will look at price and quality. A person wants the highest quality with the lowest price. If a person looks for a tablet then only the person buying knows what they want so there a competitive market for the person's money.
The first party purchase  is this research then choice. The person paying is the person using.
If someone is paying for someone else. The person buying wants a good price but the quality may not as good. It could be a wedding a gift. A person could say, "By the time it breaks, they will forget who give it to them." This person wanted a good price but will not use the product so it could be lackluster.
We can use something but not going to pay for it. This is called second party purchases.
 The person paying is not  the person using.
If you are not paying for it or using it then you are not concerned about the price or quality.
Let's say that your boss gives you 200 bucks for a prize. You buy a 8 foot frog for the winner at the party.
And everyone laughs at the prize. This is called a third party purchase.
A purchase with money that's not yours to buy something that you will not use.
All government purchases are third party purchases.  The government will spend other people money that they will not consume. The government does not care about the price or quality.
There will always be waste in governmental spending.  President Lincoln said, "Government should do only those things that a man can't do better for  himself."
If 300 million people in the United States were able to buy health insurance like life insurance, then the companies will offer a little more coverage for a little less cost.
The healthcare field would be working to get people money so the quality would improved and the cost would go down.
The lazer eye surgery used to 2,000 dollars and now it cost 500 dollars. That's the way free enterprise competition works every time.  
When the government get involved in the healthcare. Cost goes up and waste and fraud increases.
Some services will be denied or unavailable. This what happens within governmental healthcare programs within this world.   When healthcare becomes a first person payer then they will get the healthcare that they want.
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