Deconstructing the Harmful Society

I'm Just Wondering... when we will all appreciate the power of the 'fallen nature' that is inherent in Free Market economics?

A couple decades ago, I took a course in Biblical Economics from the philosopher and theologen John Peck from Brittian... one of the original fathers of the modern Christina movement in the UK... and he really fronted the case that free market economics is based in a non-Biblical assumption, and is inherently filled with the potential for evil.

He went on to lay out the economic structures that God built into the Old Testament Hebrew nation, all of which was to bring a Divine factor of grace and correction into play against free market economies. The kicker is the year of Jubilee, where every 50 years everything was given back...

OK... anybody notice all the things on the current political storefront? Big tobaccoo is about to be regulated by the FDA like Vicodin, USA HealthCare Inc is about to be choked away from huge profits on the broken backs of the sick and infirm, the massive industrial-military complex is going to be tied up and unable to play Jack Bauer-Rambo in their torture techniques, and the industries that had cushy 6-figure plans for putting 3 screws in a floorboard are going to find out that they can't make the same wages as brain surgeons. Then the oil industry had their wonderful last-minute sweetheart deal to drill on every lovely bit of American public land reversed and put on hold...

The 'Harmful Society' of the West has run out of credit, and the bill just arrived via a very large Gorilla who wants to collect - and re-arrange all the furniture at the same time.

The theme seems to be... sensible economics, as best as can be had in a fallen system. No, you can't sell cigarettes to kids. No, you can't make billions on the suffering of the sick and young children. No, you can't torture, even if that means your gov't contract goes away. No, you can't drill anywhere you want to make windfall profits. Hey, de-facto socialism in 6-figure incomes for whatever work you do (or don't do) cannot be sustained.

Time for across-the-board adjustment.

This is going to be painful.