engaging in mostly all good behavior or mostly all evil behavior. The gray area has almost completely evaporated.

The rate of unemployed and underemployed individuals has skyrocketed. Realize that the unemployment figure provided by government only reflects those individuals who are collecting unemployment insurance and not those whose unemployment insurance has expired. Thus, the real unemployment figure is much higher than government provides to the population.

For too long, the attitude of some people in this society has been; What is mine is mine. What is yours is mine. What is ours is mine. And what is God’s is mine. This philosophy is in obvious violation of at least one Commandment and involves the participants in Capital Sins. A few have repented from this philosophy, realizing the harm and damages that have been inflicted on others and themselves. Many however, have not repented and the vehicles for perpetuating this attitude have not been removed. For example the futures and commodity markets that include main food sources such as wheat and rice continue to be made available to be manipulated by some people in the population. An article written for Harper’s Magazine titled “The Food Bubble” “How Wall Street Starved Millions and Got Away With It” discusses that in the futures market how a huge abundance of wheat was purchased and held by investors which raised the price of wheat so high, that the poor could no longer afford to purchase virtually their only food source. A similar situation happened recently in the Philippines, with rice sold in a cartel market. The price of rice became so high that the poor could not afford to purchase their main food of subsistence. This price increase occurred after several years of tremendous rice crop yields and subsequent large inventories stored, where most would expect, under a moral system, a price decrease. Therefore, based on these kinds of immoralities, no food source should be permitted to be traded in any speculative market whether futures, cartel, or any other similarly devised scheme.

Deuteronomy 4: 36 warns:

From heaven He made you hear His voice to discipline you. On earth He showed you His great fire, and you heard His words from out of the fire.

A good barometer of the value of money is that one unit of a currency should be able to purchase something whether it be a piece of gum, a button, or a small piece of hardware for examples. This concept is necessary to maintain perspective and population sanity. If one unit is worthless, then one can surmise that all the money is worthless or will soon become worthless.

Some schemes to remove the savings and wealth of people involve corporations that are doing well, profitable, and at times providing dividends. Suddenly, the corporation is found to be in bankruptcy proceedings by investors. Weeks later, the corporation is back in the same line of business with a new name and new investors. Through this scam a few investors become extremely wealthy while the majority of investors have lost their money invested in the original corporation. Many individual’s savings and retirement money has been stolen through this method. Some corporations have been growing at unprecedented rates through mergers and acquisitions. Many medium and small business