Barack's Assault on Work Merely His Latest Stupid Insult Against Common Sense

The confounding statement by Obama's spokesman regarding whether Americans under ObamaCare will choose to work is nothing short of appalling and nonsensical. Certainly, of all the myriad attacks Obama has launched against Americans, this may be the most fundamental and perverse. For what kind of a person, let alone leader, tries to persuade others that work is an option?

That Barack has unbiblical and even anti-Christian ideals has been noted since his advent. But this recent broadside against work is a new low. For it is in the Garden that God commands Adam and Eve to be productive. But to reject this is to collectively turn our backs upon wisdom, common sense, experience, and revealed wisdom. So what is Barack up to in his 2-term attack upon productivity? From a Marxist perspective, there are a number of reasons to oppose full-employment. First, since the US has a capitalist system, this must be overturned. Second, since capitalism is more highly productive than socialism, it must be shut down so as not to make Marxism suffer by comparison. Third, if Marxist revolution is needed to create a socialist utopia, then this will more likely happen if more people are out of work. Fourth, since unemployed people are more psychologically unwell, the more joblessness we have, the more dissatisfied will be Americans with the current system, and therefore more supportive of revolution. Research has been done on why joblessness creates such misery. Therefore, if Obama cared about Americans, he would fight for higher employment, as studies prove the catastrophic psychological effects of joblessness:

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The current state of the economy continues to be an enormous stressor for Americans, with 78% reporting money a significant source of stress. Unemployed workers are twice as likely as employed counterparts to experience psychological problems such as depression, anxiety, psychosomatic symptoms, low subjective well-being and poor self-esteem. Like unemployment, underemployment is unequally distributed across the U.S. population, with women, younger workers and African Americans reporting higher rates of involuntary part-time employment and low pay, as well as higher proportions of "discouraged" workers who have given up on searching for a job. Unemployment not only affects those who lose their jobs. Unemployment and underemployment also affect families and communities.

I. Biblical Mandate: Be Fruitful

Until recently in the West, the Bible was studied for input into public policy decisions. But it is simple common sense that employed persons do better, overall, than the unemployed. It is a well-known fact that the God of the Bible directed the first people to work and produce. In fact, the very first admonition to mankind is to labor. This is stated in Genesis 1:26-28:

Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."

So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.

God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground."

When God creates the Garden, He states that mankind is to work inside it, therefore sanctifying his labors. It states in Genesis 2:15: "The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it." Further, God creates for Adam "a helper," who is meant to assist Adam as he toils within the Garden. This relationship therefore sets Adam and Eve's proto-marriage within the context of work, the hierarchy of sex and family, and productivity. Genesis 2:18-24 states:

The Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him."...But for Adam no suitable helper was found. So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called 'woman,' for she was taken out of man." That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.

Here we see the importance of labor. It is not simply busy-work assigned by God, but affirming the purpose of God's divine assignment to humans. The relationship between husband and wife is also importantly set within the context of headship and labor, which then produces fruitfulness--most importantly, children. After mankind sins, and is ejected from the Garden, God curses the ground. Yet He does not curse work, which is still the fundamental key to being productivity. Genesis 2:17-19 states:

To Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat from it,' "Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return."

Overall, despite the fact that God cursed the earth after the fall, mankind is still ennobled by work. In this, theologians claim we mimic God in His work of Creation. We also obey God in his earliest commands, which are never rescinded elsewhere in the Bible. Finally, we take part in God's Creation, the majority of work will then transpire in the afterlife.

II. Pagan Prophecy & Pseudo-Spirituality

Before examining Barack's source of inspiration, being the holy books of socialism, we should note an odd aspect of modern liberalism. The ideas and theories of modern day Marxists are quite typically presented as simple facts verifiable to anyone with the proper training, or intelligence. Perhaps the political offices we have created lend themselves to persons posturing themselves in a priestly manner, who often turn out be mere charlatans. Yet we cannot avoid the fact that Marxism mimics Christianity in many of its conceits, a fact documented by such intellectuals as Eric Voegelin in The New Science of Politics. For example, the persistence of claiming to advocate for "the poor, widowed and orphaned" is a trope taken directly from the New Testament mission of the Apostles. And yet, time and again we see Marxists foisting a horrific fraud upon the credulous, as socialist programs and policies regularly fail their most basic mission statements. So now we must ask, why? Perhaps the easiest explanation is to point out that, while the West has long been beholden to the Revelation of the Bible, and direction from the Church, Marxism has no such source book. Further, when examined rationally, Marxism is an intellectual holdover of ancient paganism, such as found in ancient Rome. This can be seen in the pagan insistence that government's authority was over all of human life. More specifically, ancient Roman religion did not even contain the concept of divine revelation, according to Religions of the Ancient World, A Guide, edited by Sarah Iles Johnson. Instead, the soothsayers, priests and augurs used events in the natural world to predict the god's attitude, or guess future events. Therefore, when we see Marxists, and other modern humanists who explicitly reject divine revelation, but then appear to assume the mantle of prophets, we can be quite certain they are flying blind. For example, in much the same way that the Apostle John predicts the Apocalypse, Marx predicts the revolution which will save the workers from the evil business owners. And yet, despite the outrageous confidence and arrogance Marxists display in the faith they have in their ideology, there is no reason to trust them any more than any other public intellectuals. Marxism is not spiritual because it is wholly fixated upon materialist goals and worldly ambitions, and seeks dominaion through politicizing every element of life. There is no Marxist prophecy because there can be no Marxist prophets.

III. Marxist Mandate: Group Work

The fixation upon the "right" to not work, as found in Barack's statements about ObamaCare, is a natural extension of the progressive claim that only the group has any rights or standing. Persons therefore have a right to not work as they claim identity with the group, as the group has a moral obligation to sustain and support non-workers. In fact, since Marxism is based upon the fatuous assertion that the rich only have wealth from stealing from the poor--the non-workers are simply being paid back stolen funds. This idea is developed in such Politically Correct works as The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries. For a real Marxist, there is a natural right to not work as wage-labor gives rise to slavery, as the rich exploit the poor. Therefore, to not work in a society where the group cares for each member, delivers economic justice, as it simply forces the rich to do what they should be doing, anyway--repaying the poor for depriving them of the rightful reward of their labor.

IV. The Right to Be Lazy

An interesting addendum to Marxism's attack upon employment is the Abolition of Work movement. Writers like Karl Marx's son-in-law Paul Lafargue even essayed on the "Right to be Lazy." Lefargue, who had Anarchist leanings, and Marx's daughter Laura, committed suicide together in a mutual pact. Here is the first chapter of Lafargue's polemic against work:

A strange delusion possesses the working classes of the nations where capitalist civilization holds its sway. This delusion drags in its train the individual and social woes which for two centuries have tortured sad humanity. This delusion is the love of work, the furious passion for work, pushed even to the exhaustion of the vital force of the individual and his progeny. Instead of opposing this mental aberration, the priests, the economists and the moralists have cast a sacred halo over work. Blind and finite men, they have wished to be wiser than their God; weak and contemptible men, they have presumed to rehabilitate what their God had cursed. I, who do not profess to be a Christian, an economist or a moralist, I appeal from their judgement to that of their God; from the preachings of their religious, economics or free thought ethics, to the frightful consequences of work in capitalist society. In capitalist society work is the cause of all intellectual degeneracy, of all organic deformity. Compare the thorough-bred in Rothschild's stables, served by a retinue of bipeds, with the heavy brute of the Norman farms which plows the earth, carts the manure, hauls the crops. Look at the noble savage whom the missionaries of trade and the traders of religion have not yet corrupted with Christianity, syphilis and the dogma of work, and then look at our miserable slaves of machines.

Conclusion

In a country struggling to overcome an economy underperforming for 6 straight years, where millions suffer long-term unemployment -- could there be a stupider or more reckless salute than to the wonders of joblessness? Anyone who believed ObamaCare was a simple attempt by humble folk to help the poor receive acceptable healthcare coverage, must now be on guard. For each day offers more reports of idiocy, failure and incompetence from the elite mandarins transforming our healthcare system. Is there in American history a leader more perverse, counter-intuitive, reckless or composed of such catastrophic instincts as Obama? All of this brings a new level of privation and insult to the hard-working and long-suffering American patriot. Cutting to the chase, every moment until he leaves office, we will suffer under the careless and cruel hand of our tormentor in chief, Barack Hussein Obama, and his crazy designs to remake America.