I hope you don’t mind all of the emails I have sent over the last few weeks. But this is one of the most important that has been sent. Please consider it before casting your vote this year.
This is an email with an audio clip of Ezra Taft Benson. It is very interesting given what hangs in the balance of this election. The end of it talks about how we will be fed socialism until one day we wake up and find we all ready have communism. We have been being fed socialism for some time. We now have the chance to elect a president who will feed us a greater amount of socialism. Will we wake up under his administration to find we have communism and wonder what we have done?
The fate of the nation hangs in a balance… what will we decide?
If you do not read the article consider these few excerpts taken from a talk by Ezra Taft Benson given at BYU in 1977: Located at: http://speeches.byu.edu/reader/reader.php?id=6162&x=55&y=6
“Why is socialism incompatible with man’s liberty? Socialism cannot work except through an all-powerful state. The state has to be supreme in everything. When individuals begin to exert their God-given rights, the state has to suppress that freedom. So belief in God must be suppressed, and with that gone freedom of conscience and religion must also go. Those are the first of our liberties mentioned in the Bill of Rights.”
“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!”
“Americans have always been committed to taking care of the poor, aged, and unemployed. We have done this on the basis of Judaic-Christian beliefs and humanitarian principles. It has been fundamental to our way of life that charity must be voluntary if it is to be charity. Compulsory benevolence is not charity. Today’s socialists–who call themselves egalitarians–are using the federal government to redistribute wealth in our society, not as a matter of voluntary charity, but as a so-called matter of right. One HEW official said recently, “In this country, welfare is no longer charity, it is a right. More and more Americans feel that their government owes them something” (U.S. News and World Report, April 21, 1975, p. 49). President Grover Cleveland said–and we believe as a people–that though the people support the government the government should not support the people.”
“The chief weapon used by the federal government to achieve this “equality” [Barak Obama and Democrats today would call it fairness] is the system of transfer payments. This means that the federal governments collects from one income group and transfer payments to another by the tax system. These payments are made in the form of social security benefits, Medicare and Medicaid, and food stamps, to name a few. Today the cost of such programs has been going in the hole at the rate of 12 billion dollars a year; and, with increased benefits and greater numbers of recipients, even though the tax base has been increased we will have larger deficits in the future.”
Consider what hangs in the balance. Even our very RIGHTS and FREEDOMS hangs in the balance. Now is the time to stand and raise your voice. Don’t let the bias US Media be the only voice that is heard this election.
Stand and vote for freedom on Tuesday. Encourage all you know to stand and vote for freedom.
