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Government Supports Evil and Goes Broke

 

By Rabbi David Eidensohn

 

            How does our government deal with evil? The Washington Post on May 13, 2002, ran a story "Worked Till They Drop." It described how young Chinese die in factories to feed the insatiable demands of foreign companies and consumers. When Li Chunmei died, she had been on her feet for nearly 16 hours, running, not walking, from machine to machine to manufacture toys. She lay down, began to cough blood, and died. Are you going to buy that toy for your children? Don't think that all of us are not doing such things. We are supporting a monster, a killer, and we are doing it with the connivance of our country that granted, within the year, Most Favorable Status treatment to this slave state. China uses its enormous earnings from American dollars to develop super-weapons of mass-destruction and missiles. It then gives these to countries that want to use these weapons against America. This is how our government deals with evil.

            The article in the Post tells us that Chinese peasants earn about $25 a year, but must pay the government taxes of $37 a year. The only way to do so and not get arrested is to force one's children to work. First, they work at home and don't go to school, Then, uneducated and unable to earn very much, they travel to the cities to work in factories. When Li Chunmei worked, her company withheld money from her and thus robbed her. Managers could impose fines for the smallest things. During peak season Li worked sixty days straight and worked overtime, running, running, to feed the American billionaires who make more money using Chinese slave labor than they do using American labor under civilized conditions. When Li worked overtime, the managers would simply write down fewer hours than she actually worked, stealing from her so the foreign investors could improve their returns.

            The article says that American businesses who don't want blood on their hands or more realistically, don't want to be seen with blood on their hands, farm out work that results in great human suffering. They then claim, as the company that employed Li did, "It is not our responsibility." That is what our government feels, when it gives China Most Favorable Nation trading status. It continues to encourage investment there, money that could produce jobs in America, but is now producing death in China.

            When Li Chumnie died, her family, in order to pay government taxes, must send the next sister to the factories. When she does, you will be able to buy cheap goods. You will buy them, because no American company could afford to buy ones that are more expensive. You won't pay the extra few dollars, will you, and the American business has to make a living, right? Our government deals with evil by making us pay for it.

            Of course, there are those who say, "Who cares if Li or Lo drop dead?" If you think that way (I hope you don't), and many do, let's talk about evil closer to home.

            The New York Times, on May 13, published an article by Matt Richtel entitled "Credit Card Theft Thrives Online as Global Market." You buy something online with a credit card. The talented thieves, mostly from Russia and supported by Asians and Saudis, among others, crash the merchant's customer base and copy credit cards. They sell them online. There is such a glut of credit cards that they go for forty cents apiece. Five thousand cards go for a thousand dollars. The cost to consumers is at least a billion dollars a year, and some say that it is much larger than that, and growing.

            Some merchants are hurt badly, and their businesses are crippled. What is the government doing? Is it forcing businesses that take credit cards to provide proper security? So lax is American Internet security that Russian hackers stole the latest Microsoft version of Windows. Now they know all of its secrets and can easily penetrate its defenses. Lax security of one business online can result in damage to others and to the economy.

            The past week I received two phone calls from banks and online businesses. Someone has my social security number, address and other information and is applying for credit, credit cards and loans with it. Why did the banks and credit agencies call me? What tipped them off? The fraud sounds like an Arab, "not like a David," as the agent of the credit agency told me. The credit agencies have the fraud's address and phone number, and yet, they do nothing. I called the police and was told, "We are a local police department, but we will look into it." They are still looking. Really, it is not their business, and it is obvious not the government's business. This is how the government looks out for us. Our credit cards online, our social security numbers, are just there for the whole world to take: Russians, Arabs, Asians, anyone. Don't forget the local criminals. Our government is not doing anything about this. How important it is to nab someone like this, talking on the phone, asking for a credit card to be sent to an address, but, it requires some legal and police footwork. The government can't be bothered with evil.

            Joe Bonanna knew that. When Joe died peacefully at home at the age of 97, the Associated Press ran a length article about him. It shows that crime pays in America. Joe headed America's Mafia for generations. At the age of 26, he was an officer of the Mafia Crime Commission, representing the Gambino, Lucchese, Colombo, and Bonanna families. For thirty years of "enforcing," heroin dealing and who knows what else, Joe never went to jail. Only when he retired did he spend a few years in jail for civil contempt of court and obstruction of justice. How many Americans became drug addicts because of this monster? How many people were murdered because of his ambitions? You say, "It's not about me," but Business Week magazine ran an article a year or two ago about two armed gangsters coming into a stockbroker's office insisting on its selling and not selling certain stocks. The gangsters were filmed by the office video, and the police were notified, but the police were not interested. They were too busy running after some half-crazed man urinating in the street. New York City was involved in improving "quality of life" and was not interested in armed mobsters controlling the stock market. Meanwhile, the Mafia made a killing by manipulating the price of a stock, and it could be you that lost out.

            Joe Bonanna was not content to make millions from heroin, loan sharking and gambling. He entered the legal business world with huge investments in garment manufacturing, cheese, dairy farms and real estate. Can you imagine what his competitors did in the legal world when they saw him coming? Does that concern you?

Our government is not interested because you are not. Throughout America, the underworld is ingratiating itself into legitimate businesses, where it can launder its illicit money and expand its operations. Who will compete with a business run by murderers? Throughout the country, the government hires the Mafia companies to provide many public services such as garbage disposal. The government takes your tax dollar and feeds the hands that steal from us and destroy society.

            However, the greatest failure of government is about AIDS, a terrible plague spread by the political efforts of the Gay Lobby. The Gay Lobby convinced many state governments, such as New York and California, to remove HIV and AIDS from the state list of infectious diseases. (That's right. In New York State, AIDS and HIV are not on the official infectious disease list.) They then convinced the state to declare HIV and AIDS a civil rights cause, so that those who spread it are considered the victims of society's homophobia. Billions of your dollars have gone to the Gay Lobby. They make programs teaching homosexuals how to have more exciting sex, and you pay for it. They do this on the fraudulent claim of AIDS education. Remember, you pay for it. You also pay for the public school programs that teach sex to young children. Part of the evil of that is that parents who don't approve of the gay agenda are described as evil and inciters. We pay money to teach children to hate their church and parents. We pay money to teach young children to love fisting and to detest the bible. (Don't ask what fisting is. This is not the fifth grade in a public school.)

            Well, you respond, what is so terrible if we give the gays some money? We have plenty of it. Sorry about that. We don't. The Associated Press on May 14, '02 reported, "Treasury Shifting Funds to Dodge Default on National Debt." Do we have enough money in this country? The article says that the present debt limit is $5.95 trillion. And we need 750 billion dollars more! That is 6.5 trillion dollars! Can we comprehend what six trillion of anything is? (A trillion is a thousand billion. A billion is a thousand million.) America has roughly 300 million people, and collectively they owe 6 trillion dollars. This comes out to $20,000 per person. The burden to pay taxes is not born by everyone. Therefore, those who pay taxes must support the national debt not only for themselves, but also for the many people who don't pay taxes. If you support a family of four, you must support a portion of the national debt that comes out to $80,000. How much of that is real? Real or not, it is paying interest. Foreign investors have bought billions of dollars of interest paying bonds, and you are going to pay that interest, and the principal, or else your country will re-finance, and pay higher interest and more in debt to foreigners.

How did the government get into such a mess? One reason is the Gay Lobby.

            We have about a million people in America infected with HIV, or AIDS. The number exploded by over seventy percent in New York City recently, and the rate nationally of new infections is going up over 25% annually, from forty thousand to fifty thousand, according to the CDC's latest figures. The cost, for medicines alone, for one sick person per year is about 15k. To cure people will cost more, for doctors, hospitals, "education," social work, etc. If we have to pay 15k or more per each of the approximately one million people infected with HIV, how much does that cost? That is fifteen billion dollars, just for one year! We just fork it over, and this is why we are in such debt. Let's look again at those national debt figures.

            According to the Associated Press, the government is now in a crisis, switching around funds just like they did at Enron, to prevent default. How much more money must be added to the 5.95 trillion dollar debt for government to borrow more (at interest) and survive? Treasury Secretary Neil, quoted in the article, wants $750 billion dollars. That's almost another trillion dollars. In other words, the government needs to up its debt by about one eighth to survive. Did you ever have to re-finance your life with an increase of one eighth in one year? Wasn't this the government that assured us that the way to prosperity was a tax cut? Now it finds out that we are not making enough money from taxes, that is, the system is not supporting the huge outlays for the gay lobby and other such things. Don't forget the large U.S. firms that are becoming incorporated in Bermuda to avoid paying taxes on all international dealings, as presented recently in the New York Times in an article by Mr. Krugman. The economy cannot sustain itself in the face of rapacious gangsters, credit card fraud, huge businesses going to China to wax fat upon dying youngsters, and the fact that you don't give a damn.

            As long as our government knows that you are there to pick up the tab, it will support evil.