Making Bricks Without Straw!

“What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the faces of the poor, says the Sovereign, Yahweh of Hosts?” [Isaiah 3:15] How far will the powers that be take this country before it goes into financial oblivion? What will it take to wake these same people up so they can view America in complete reality? The prices for gas, food, and everything necessary for the average American to live, continue their climb upward. Where will it stop? The federal minimum wage is set at $7.25 per hour, and five states have no minimum wage law while five other states have a lower wage law than the federal standard rate. How does anyone live, honestly, on $7.25 per hour? Gas prices are now at $3.375 for the national average. How much higher will this go before anything absolute is done about this is anyone’s guess? Let’s look at the reality of this in real time configurations.

“Therefore, go now and work. And straw will not be given to you; and a certain number of bricks you shall deliver.” Exodus 5:18 “We the People” must go to work every day unless one has the luxury of staying home because they have the funds to do so or, they are receiving welfare compensation for doing nothing and they refuse to work. We on the other hand are told to work, pay our taxes, electric and heating bills, and pay our mortgage without delay. But, how can we pay these necessary obligations when our straw is taken away and there remains nothing left to accomplish this? We are told to continue to meet our financial obligations with unjust financial requirements and we must accomplish this with unjust wage compensation! Behold, the wages of the workmen who have reaped your fields cry out, being kept back by you. And the cries of the ones who have reaped have entered into the ears of Yahweh of Hosts.” [Isaiah. 5:9] James 5:4.

If a worker receiving minimum wages of $7.25 per hour travels the statistically conceived average of 16 miles one-way to their job, making the round trip 32 miles each day just to work, what does this add up to for just one week of travel expenses? If this worker, for illustration purposes, drives a vehicle that gets 16 mpg, which would be 2 gallons of gas consumed each day just to go to work, what would be their cost? Two gallons of gas at the current price for low grade (87 Octane) is $3.375 per gallon, this would factor out to $6.75 in gas costs per day. Now if we extend this out for one week we arrive at $33.75 for gas costs per week. You will notice that I am doing this in a slow descriptive process so those at the higher levels of government that control these things will “get it!” Anyway, continuing on, we will say that our minimum wage worker puts in forty hours per week. By extension this would be $7.25 times forty hours and this equals $290.00 per week without any taxes taken out. Based on current tax rates our worker would take home $267.82 per week. This will factor out to $1,071.28 per month and $12,855.36 per year in wages. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to see where this is going. But, what is going to happen to those who oppress the people in their wages and living costs?

“And men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake mightily the earth. In that day men shall cast away their idols of silver, and their idols of gold, which have been made for them to worship, to the moles and to the bats; to go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake mightily the earth.” Isaiah 2:19-21 This day rapidly approaches because of this passage: “Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the sighing of the needy, Now will I arise, says Yahweh; I will set him in the safety he pants for.” Psalm 12:5

In the days to come nothing is going to matter as a leveling process will take place. The rich who oppress the poor and the leaders that do even worse to the poor will be brought down from their lofty heights and taught a lesson. My point in this was that although unnecessary, the poor continue to bear the burdens for the avariciousness of those who oppress. Are the current oil prices necessary? NO! Are the current escalating food prices necessary? NO! The burning of food for fuel is totally unnecessary. We can drill for and produce our own oil; we do not need the oil of mad men in the Middle East. The focus is on things that unnecessarily require any immediate attention such as the current controversy over DOMA and can Obama just refuse to defend this legislation because he doesn’t want to? Attention needs to be directed towards real issues that affect every American.