What is fair?

Jesus Christ Lord Is!
25January 2012

What is fair? I searched the transcripts of the president’s speech and he talked of fairness several times. Here is one of his quotes, “We can either settle for a country where a shrinking number of people do really well, while a growing number of Americans barely get by. Or we can restore an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules.”

He said these are “American values.”

Fairness is when everyone “plays by the same set of rules.” Is this what Obama and his ilk have stood for or stand for or believe in? No, not even close when the statement is thought of in its truest sense.

When you look at the rest of the statement and knowing that he is ever changing the rules we see the truth. In the Body Armor business a “fair shot” means a shot within a defined set of parameters, usually a defined velocity range. That is very close to the context meant by Obama, but it is he that sets the parameters of what is fair. His definition of what is fair in an ever moving target constantly being adjusted, by changing and differing sets of rules based on what these central planners, these redistributionist demagogues, determine is “fair” today. This definition of fair is marked by self-interest, advantage and unequal reward or punishment based the relationship to the rule makers.

Therefore the truth is that the “same rules” he speaks of are that the rules will be different as needed to achieve his definition of fairness.

The book of James speaks of not being a respecter of person, meaning truly the same rules for everyone no matter their position. That is fairness in all realms among civilized people. That is what is meant when John Adams said we have, “a government of laws, not of men.”

Federalist 62 defines this, as I have said many times. The deception is this is exactly what Obama wants you to think he is saying we should “restore.” The reality of his action and their outcome are exactly what is warned against.

“The internal effects of a mutable policy are still more calamitous. It poisons the blessing of liberty itself. It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be to-morrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed?

Another effect of public instability is the unreasonable advantage it gives to the sagacious, the enterprising, and the moneyed few over the industrious and uniformed mass of the people. Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue, or in any way affecting the value of the different species of property, presents a new harvest to those who watch the change, and can trace its consequences; a harvest, reared not by themselves, but by the toils and cares of the great body of their fellow-citizens. This is a state of things in which it may be said with some truth that laws are made for the FEW, not for the MANY.

In another point of view, great injury results from an unstable government. The want of confidence in the public councils damps every useful undertaking, the success and profit of which may depend on a continuance of existing arrangements. What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not but that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed? What farmer or manufacturer will lay himself out for the encouragement given to any particular cultivation or establishment, when he can have no assurance that his preparatory labors and advances will not render him a victim to an inconstant government? In a word, no great improvement or laudable enterprise can go forward which requires the auspices of a steady system of national policy.

But the most deplorable effect of all is that diminution of attachment and reverence which steals into the hearts of the people, towards a political system which betrays so many marks of infirmity, and disappoints so many of their flattering hopes. No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.

PUBLIUS.”

James 5
4Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
5Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
6Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
7Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
8Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
9Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.
10Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
11Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
12But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.

Now look at the world and see this.

Jeremiah 36:16 -
Psalms 11
In the Name of
Jesus Christ My Lord
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah!