My great-grandfather was killed by the communists... and I say "no" to Marxism, socialism and the like...

As many of you, I've been reading and listening to what's going on regarding the election. Let me just share something here about redistribution of wealth.

When Barack Obama says that people should spread their wealth around to help the poor. Well, it's nice to have someone offer the needy help out of his/her own heart, it's another when the government "taxes" (merely taking it from the people, another word "confiscates"), that becomes the problem.

I've seen some of the laziest workers in China when I traveled there growing up. They got paid the same whether they worked hard or not, absolutely no incentive nor motivation to strive for better. They simply don't work more than the minimum required. They've become robotic, hopeless and bitter at the fact that the rich are the priviledged, and therefore some have believed they should be punished.

My great-grandfather was a bourgoise in China, which is one of the groups the Communists persecuted simply for their wealth. He was also a high government official at one point, a very educated one. So, that's 3 strikes against him. The Communists ended his life by confiscating everything he'd owned and made him and his wife walk on broken glass on his knees until he died. It was one of the common forms of persecution. When I try to picture that today, I crinch everytime I hear this U.S. Presidential candidate, Barack Obama, say that the government should have to right to spread the people's wealth. That's essentially what the Communists did to my great-grandfather, his wealthy taken for government use.

Jesus says in the book of Matthew, chapter 25 verse 29, "For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away." referring to what we do with the resources God has given us. As Paul (my husaband, not the apostle :) ) says, if you take away everything from Warren Buffet, he'll be a rich man again sometime soon because he knows how to make money and invests; but if you give a poor man a million dollar, he'll be poor again soon. As the saying goes, "Give a man a fish, he's fed for a day, teach him how to fish, he'll be fed for a lifetime."

How profoundly true that is!! When we start taking responsibilities for our own actions, that's when true transformation begins. When those that moan and groan all day "Woe is me!!!" and are always looking for a hand-out, they'll never look into themselves to grow out of the current situation. It's a vicious cycle, and a very sad and empty inheritance they pass onto their children.

I do not wish to teach that kind of unproductive and toxic thinking to my children. They'll always know and understand the principle that the Lord teaches us in the Good Book, "You reap what you sow!"

And like how we don't believe when the telemarkers call to tell us, "You have won an extravagent vacation! A million dollars .....!" (since there's no free lunch!!), don't believe for a second when a politician promises everything under the sun because ...there is a price to pay... sooner or later.