Work Sets You Free

When I was just beginning my adventure into the buying and selling of real estate--one of the few investments in the world on which you could depend--the tax rate was set in mills. One mill is one-thousandth of a dollar, or one-hundredth of a penny. As Governor Charles Aycock said in his book, “you raise taxes a few mills at a time, and no one realizes it.”

The mill was established in the Coinage Act of 1792. In 1972, President Nixon established it as millage, and from that time to this the entire tax system has been confused, at best. Your tax rate is not correct according to the mills established by the Coinage Act, but the politicians who would have to correct the matter are only too anxious to pick your pockets in tax assessments, which could easily be corrected by multiplying your tax rate by .002. Most people work their entire lives investing so they can see some freedom from work. You should realize that when your children are born, they immediately come under the oppression of taxation. A child born this morning owes the government $250,000.

Once, while attending a meeting at the Fount Bleau Hotel near Miami Beach, in the coffee shop I overheard one Jewish man say to another, “What are you going to do with all your money?”. The other replied, “I hope it will allow me to do nothing.”

The most famous sign in history was the sign over the entrance to hell in Dante's Inferno, which read, “Last Chance”. The most evil sign in human history was the sign over the Auschwitz death camp, which read, “Work Sets You Free” (Arbeit Macht Frei). For the 6 million Jews (and 275,000 disabled) who were exterminated at such death camps, no matter how hard they worked for the Nazis, they were still exterminated. This sign was stolen last week, supposedly to sell to some Neo-Nazis in Poland. The five men who stole it have since been arrested. The sign had been cut into three pieces.

I remember, going through the horrendous Holocaust facility at Auschwitz....most graves marked by the Star of David, and some graves marked by Christian crosses. I have been through the Holocaust memorial in Israel, I have studied this darkest period in world history. From what I have studied, it is almost inconceivable to imagine man's inhumanity to man. The very idea of a sign telling condemned people that work will set you free. A race of people that has been awarded more Nobel prizes for science and literature.

Once, Lewis Pasteur, the premier scientist of his time was on a train in Germany. Pasteur, a Catholic, was praying with his rosary. A young man across from him looked over and said, “surely sir, you do not believe in these religious fairy tales?” Pasteur said to him, “Yes, it is time for me to get off this train. Here is my card, I'd like to explain my faith to you if you will come by my office.” The young man was amazed to have the card of the most famous scientist of his time.

Albert Einstein, a Jew, said the Christian religion was the most fascinating study he had ever made. If you are to be free, whether Einstein, Pasteur, or the millions exterminated by the Nazis at Auschwitz and elsewhere, you will find freedom ONLY by grace through faith in God's only son (John 8:31-32). This says it all. In this freedom, you can live with disability, any other disaster, or the chastening which most certainly will come to you. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? (Hebrews 12:7)

Those who claim the name of Christ are not willing to endure chastening. Those who claim the name of Christ are not willing to endure the patriotic obligation of keeping the country free. Those who claim the name of Christ do not love their children enough to protect their future from the scourge of an unjust government. Those who claim the name of Christ have damaged the reputation of our blessed Lord when their walk does not agree with their talk.

The two Bushes, from one of the countries richest families, enjoyed talking about liberty and freedom for other countries. but were too engulfed in New Age philosophy and the Wiccan sabbath of Skull and Bones to defend their own country and their fellow citizens. The sell out now, is almost complete. It used to be said of a hard-working salesman or politician, “he could sell ice to Eskimos.” Now, we have a President and people in the world who will sell you air and force you to buy it. As the Jewish doctor said in the last sentence of Shakespeare's Macbeth, “God help us all!”