00:00when you really break it down it's actually pretty crazy here's the real truth about socialism you
00:09know what some people think is so great in this country for some odd reason check it out okay
00:16let's go spicy that's hiroshima 80 years after an atomic bomb that's cuba 60 years after socialism
00:24one city can survive an atomic bomb the other society could not survive 60 years of socialism
00:32bro this is insane our cbs news poll out this morning finds 58 particularly in one political
00:37party have a positive view of socialism and just 32 have a positive view of capitalism 58 of the
00:45rising generation is going hey socialism good capitalism bad in general what you're going to
00:51notice more god requires less government and less god is always going to require more government
00:56when you have a nation of godly and honest people who are full of the holy spirit and internally
01:02motivated to obey the commands of the scriptures do you know what you don't need a whole lot a bunch
01:07of police you don't need like billions or trillions of dollars of government welfare systems there's
01:13three ways to view a person's relationship with money you can say what was mine uh is is mine and
01:19that's called selfishness um you can say what's mine is god's and that's called stewardship or you
01:23can say what's yours is mine and that's called stealing except if the government does it and then
01:27historically we call it socialism but just because you give it a new name doesn't mean it stops being
01:31theft now if you're like wait a second are you saying that all taxation is theft no let me come
01:36back
01:36to that but here's the question that like an astute christian thinker has to ask at what point does a
01:42government confiscating the wealth that somebody earns become theft historically zoomed out socialism
01:48creates poverty it does not solve it you tend to get more of what you incentivize and less of what
01:55you penalize it's mom donnie's the warmth of collectivism let's just pool all of our resources
02:00collectively and give it to the government and then the government will distribute it each according
02:05to his needs big problem skippy you're not asking the question what human behaviors are we incentivizing
02:13and what human behaviors are we disincentivizing that is the opposite of the spirit of thessalonians
02:20when the apostle paul says if a man will not work he shall not eat why does the apostle paul
02:24say that
02:24because god understands human nature is default mode sinful and so we need real world incentive
02:31structures to incentivize fallen people towards righteous fair behavior this is why states and
02:38cities that throw billions of dollars at homelessness tend to end up with more homelessness they do not
02:46solve homelessness when you tell people the government will provide for you you're not solving poverty
02:52you're incentivizing activity very frequently christians do not measure policies by their intentions
