Daily reporting and analysis of current events from a biblical and prophetic perspective
Bill Wilson
Dignity and blessing of a job

NOTEWhen writing about God and Jesus, The Daily Jot means YHVH as God and Yeshua Ha Mashiach as Jesus–the actual original names and the true nature and character of them.
Friday, December 9, 2016
A record 95 million Americans were not in the labor force in November, about 15 million more than when the current “president” took office. These are folks who have either retired or gave up finding a job. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics some 3.6 million people had lost their jobs and those who have been jobless for 27 weeks or more stood at 1.9 million, a quarter of the unemployed. For all the rhetoric the progressives (translated communists) put on the working class, they do so little to create jobs and ensure that each citizen has the opportunity to support their family and have the dignity of economic stability. Instead, they want to control votes and psychology by having them on the government dole.
The American people repeatedly have been told that economic recessions are the fault of the free-market-that capitalist Republicans drive the economy into shambles by lowering taxes and giving businesses incentives. They call it “trickle down” economics. The sad fact is that raising taxes on businesses (which means taking away tax incentives that keep jobs in the US) and overreaching regulation puts a ceiling on the number of jobs that business can afford. Higher taxes restrict job creation and growth of the free market. Class warfare (that the rich are the demons of society) ignores that there is risk and reward for job creation-without some “rich” person creating jobs through a large corporation, many workers don’t work.
Already, the Trump election has incentivized businesses to create or keep jobs here in the US. We have seen examples with Ford and Carrier. Now we are seeing examples in the steel industry, which has been depressed for decades due in part to repressive Democratic-inspired tax and regulation policies. US Steel CEO Mario Longhi told CNBC News that the American steel industry could bring back 10,000 jobs because of “future improvement to the tax laws, improvements to regulation” as a result of Trump taking office. Longhi said, “I’d be more than happy to bring back the employees we’ve been forced to lay off during that depressive period…There was a point in time in the past couple years that I was having to hire more lawyers to try to interpret these new regulations than I was hiring…engineers. That doesn’t make any sense.”
Reasonable regulation and fair taxation is a better choice than class warfare for every American. The Bible says that a worker is worth his wages. Solomon wrote in Ecclesiastes 3:13, “…that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labor, it is the gift of God.” In this country, we have strived to create a freedom where everyone who wants a job can work; where everyone has opportunity. Yes, there are those who squander their opportunities, or face more hardships than others, and still others who have little ambition. It is there freedom to do so. But when politicians extol the virtues of the working man, yet govern with policies that oppress him, they rob the worker of the blessing of enjoyment of his labor. Already, we are seeing the impact of the hope of less oppression. This hope brings with it dignity and blessing.
Have a Blessed and Powerful Day!
Bill Wilson
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UNDER CONSTRUCTION: The story of children of a lesser world

By Pastor William Agbeti
As they say, Christmas is just around the corner; and in the Redeem West Africa ministry, feverish preparations are already underway to make the festivity an 11th hour surprise to some 200 children who have lived lives of hopelessness in the foregoing year.
These children include, but are not limited to, urchins, orphans, marginalized, disabled, unwell and vulnerable precious young souls who have been so fortunate to have survived life thus far. They too, like the rest of us, are under construction.  John 10:10 speaks to the issue directly: “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.”
Anytime we leave those that society considers to be the “scum” of the earth, the devil comes to build them up into his image. And anytime we reach out to these same neglected ones, Jesus comes to build them up into his image.
I don’t know much about your area, but where I live Christmas is the time of the year that the devil scales up his operations to ensnare more people.
This Christmas, our ministry has purposed to save some 200 vulnerable children from satanic influence and from the camp of the enemy. Without our intervention and your support, we are likely to have 200 more brigands in the making, who will be ready to operate in the coming year as forces of evil.
To help avoid this, we plan to shower them with untold love, surprise them with goodies, feed them with square meals, cloth them with Christmas dresses, and above all, lead them to Christ and establish them in the house of God; so they can be under Holy Spirit construction.
Would you please join us to make this Christmas the birth of a new life for the 200 children? Together, let’s touch and change these lives for good. It just might be the most rewarding Christmas for you, for us, for the children and for the Ghanaian society as we bring 200 children under positive construction. Heaven  is eagerly looking forward to this event; so are we. What about you?
Thanks in advance for letting God touch your heart to lend a hand. Bless you.

The Daily Jot is totally reader supported. My wife, Chris, and I do not take a salary or receive any renumeration for this work. Your gifts go directly to assisting us in maintaining this column, the website, outreach, and the Lord’s work we do in Ghana, West Africa. Thank you for your prayers and support.

Have a Blessed and Powerful Day,

Bill Wilson
The Daily Jot

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