January 29, 2012  Consider this sad tale:  a politician tells you that your days will be short on this Earth unless and until you take his bribes, his forced hand outs. You instinctively know this is wrong. But you lie to yourself and do it anyway. And when that same politician tells you that your faith in the Lord almighty is to be regulated by his committee of liars, you say nothing. When your courts, your media, and your elections and your schools and your jobs and your entire way of life is controlled by that politician, you say and do nothing. You were, however much your sainted Madre instructed you to take the bribe and your previously known as the Catholic faith in Ecuador so enables, take the hand out ….you are of course known for what you are: a person of  no known moral backbone and one so easily seduced. Where does this put you? It puts you in the category of repulsive loser and one whose days are not a blessing but a failure.

Correa has seduced a nation of manhood-free lemmings and the nation has been led off the cliff. Not one to pretend that matters are honorable in Ecuador, Correa and his cabinet of racketeering agents gleefully carries on with their crime spree. There can be no doubt that president Correa and his entire government has no morals, no ethics and no honor. Why else do you suppose that George Soros and his fake democracy with his fake morality is so embraced, along with the FARC, Hezbollah and Iran by Correa’s Ecuador?

Why is it that Correa hates capitalism and despises the Judeo-Christian tradition, so much so that this is barred by law in the 9-08 ALBA constitution which Chavez’s Miranda Center, Spanish communists and US AID helped create, fund and insert? Why? Why have a constitution like Ecuador’s which enshrines polytheism and a fake, fat Pachamama? The answer is of course found each and every single time that former scamsters from US AID such as HARD Leftist Cesar Montuffar, now called the fake Opposition to Correa in the Assembly,  and his old boss John Sanbrailo from US AID’s Clinton era glory days of hiring scores of communists and Hard Leftists in Ecuador- now at the OAS but still scamming U.S. tax dollars, still supporting fraudsters and Chavistas,  along with former U.S. ambassadors to Ecuador, now called contractors on the make and take for no good ends. These shameful, duplicitous zombies of greed for their own inane and duplicitous follies are on the move: hiding their true activities, lying about the money they take and spend and generally living la dolce vida across the years like mafia masters, unaccounted, shadowy and false faced. No one- no one at all- who holds functioning reform for Ecuador to heart can or should play with the likes of the notorious John Sanbrailo, and all his false faces of reformist democrats who are no such thing, as Sanbrailo is a scamster emeritus. Those who do comport with the likes of Sanbrailo- who wink and nod and play with him and his team of agents of dishonor, are instantly revealed for what they are: persons who have no real interest in reforming Ecuador but also seek the greedy way- the pay offs, the bribes, the contracts.

Today we are told that we should enthuse about these money making scam artists who not only aided and abetted the full take over of all that was Ecuador but blessed the greed and thefts by Correa and his team. Not a word against Correa and his rackets comes from their mouths. Not one single US AID contractor from 1997 to 2012 has once ever been honorable, hard working, honest or useful to the common good. They have lied, abused U.S. tax monies and assisted in the installation of Correa’s government of racketeering efforts, now aligned with Hezbollah and Iran.  The pay offs are too good and the anti-Western Civilization core beliefs are too strong. Does one honest Dossier of Facts exist about Ecuador today? Of course not. The truth tellers are afraid to tell the truth for fear of reprisals by the Obama team or Correa’s hucksters. Did you ever once hear a sane word to defend Western Civilization from former U.S. ambassadors such as Linda Jewell or Peter Romero or even the Clinton and Obama team messenger Arturo Valenzuela? Anything? Of course not because these buffoons own no part of this. And their acts, their morals are seen for what they are.

Make no mistake about it: Ecuador and its citizens are primarily responsible for the mess they own today. A nation of zombies- afraid to do much but ignore Correa’s rampant criminality.

And now Ecuador is merged with Iran. It is a hard fact. Get out of this seeming marriage of convenience. Ecuadoreans praise fake marriages of convenience as necessities when they always lead to bad ends.

Even as president Correa and his entire chattering nabobs of dishonesty in his government and the so called fake Opposition in the Assembly tell us that no no no- they cannot read The Wall Street Journal because Correa despises that newspaper, currently the most important newspaper of record in the world, but also because they do not want Correa to be mad at them for studying a free speech, open media newspaper….we quote from Rabbi Spero in today’s JOURNAL, an article which should be reprinted in every Ecuadorean newspaper today because nothing, not one thing, about the Assembly and Correa’s government is moral or ethical and it is hurting you: “The motive of capitalism's detractors is a quest for their own power and an envy of those who have more money. But envy is a cardinal sin and something that ought not to be. God begins the Ten Commandments with "I am the Lord your God" and concludes with "Thou shalt not envy your neighbor, not for his wife, nor his house, nor for any of his holdings." Envy is corrosive to the individual and to those societies that embrace it. Nations that throw over capitalism for socialism have made an immoral choice.”

Ecuador, its government, its fake Opposition, its judges, its Assembly members have thrown out capitalism and legally hold a socialist-communist nation. Ecuador has made the immoral choice and is now a nation of immoral persons. You can take about two weeks to feel shame, if you but would cease making your phony excuses. And then stand strong to live your days under the express directions of the TEN COMMANDMENTS. It is that simple. No amount of ignorance or claims of poverty can hold up to this urgent need to act responsibly for yours is today a nation of  immoral persons who have made the immoral choice.

-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis

The Wall Street Journal
OPINION
JANUARY 29, 2012, 6:19 P.M. ET
What the Bible Teaches About Capitalism
As the Ten Commandments instruct, envy is corrosive to the individual and to those societies that embrace it.
By ARYEH SPERO
Who would have expected that in a Republican primary campaign the single biggest complaint among candidates would be that the front-runner has taken capitalism too far? As if his success and achievement were evidence of something unethical and immoral? President Obama and other redistributionists must be rejoicing that their assumptions about rugged capitalism and the 1% have been given such legitimacy.

More than any other nation, the United States was founded on broad themes of morality rooted in a specific religious perspective. We call this the Judeo-Christian ethos, and within it resides a ringing endorsement of capitalism as a moral endeavor.

Regarding mankind, no theme is more salient in the Bible than the morality of personal responsibility, for it is through this that man cultivates the inner development leading to his own growth, good citizenship and happiness. The entitlement/welfare state is a paradigm that undermines that noble goal.

The Bible's proclamation that "Six days shall ye work" is its recognition that on a day-to-day basis work is the engine that brings about man's inner state of personal responsibility. Work develops the qualities of accountability and urgency, including the need for comity with others as a means for the accomplishment of tasks. With work, he becomes imbued with the knowledge that he is to be productive and that his well-being is not an entitlement. And work keeps him away from the idleness that Proverbs warns leads inevitably to actions and attitudes injurious to himself and those around him.

Yet capitalism is not content with people only being laborers and holders of jobs, indistinguishable members of the masses punching in and out of mammoth factories or functioning as service employees in government agencies. Nor is the Bible. Unlike socialism, mired as it is in the static reproduction of things already invented, capitalism is dynamic and energetic. It cheerfully fosters and encourages creativity, unspoken possibilities, and dreams of the individual. Because the Hebrew Bible sees us not simply as "workers" and members of the masses but, rather, as individuals, it heralds that characteristic which endows us with individuality: our creativity.

At the opening bell, Genesis announces: "Man is created in the image of God"—in other words, like Him, with individuality and creative intelligence. Unlike animals, the human being is not only a hunter and gatherer but a creative dreamer with the potential of unlocking all the hidden treasures implanted by God in our universe. The mechanism of capitalism, as manifest through investment and reasoned speculation, helps facilitate our partnership with God by bringing to the surface that which the Almighty embedded in nature for our eventual extraction and activation.

Capitalism makes possible entrepreneurship, which is the realization of an idea birthed in human creativity. Whereas statism demands that citizens think small and bow to a top-down conformity, capitalism, as has been practiced in the U.S., maximizes human potential. It provides a home for aspiration, referred to in the Bible as "the spirit of life."

The Bible speaks positively of payment and profit: "For why else should a man so labor but to receive reward?" Thus do laborers get paid wages for their hours of work and investors receive profit for their investment and risk.

The Bible is not a business-school manual. While it is comfortable with wealth creation and the need for speculation in economic markets, it has nothing to say about financial instruments and models such as private equity, hedge funds or other forms of monetary capitalization. What it does demand is honesty, fair weights and measures, respect for a borrower's collateral, timely payments of wages, resisting usury, and empathy for those injured by life's misfortunes and charity.

It also demands transparency and honesty regarding one's intentions. The command, "Thou shalt not place a stumbling block in front of the blind man" also means that you should not act deceitfully or obscure the truth from those whose choice depends upon the information you give them. There's nothing to indicate that Mitt Romney breached this biblical code of ethics, and his wealth and success should not be seen as automatic causes for suspicion.

No country has achieved such broad-based prosperity as has America, or invented as many useful things, or seen as many people achieve personal promise. This is not an accident. It is the direct result of centuries lived by the free-market ethos embodied in the Judeo-Christian outlook.

Furthermore, only a prosperous nation can protect itself from outside threats, for without prosperity the funds to support a robust military are unavailable. Having radically enlarged the welfare state and hoping to further expand it, President Obama is attempting to justify his cuts to our military by asserting that defense needs must give way to domestic programs.

Both history and the Bible show the way that leads. Countries that were once economic powerhouses atrophied and declined, like England after World War II, once they began adopting socialism. Even King Solomon's thriving kingdom crashed once his son decided to impose onerous taxes.

At the end of Genesis, we hear how after years of famine the people in Egypt gave all their property to the government in return for the promise of food. The architect of this plan was Joseph, son of Jacob, who had risen to become the pharaoh's top official, thus: "Joseph exchanged all the land of Egypt for pharaoh and the land became pharaoh's." The result was that Egyptians became indentured to the ruler and state, and Joseph's descendants ended up enslaved to the state.

Many on the religious left criticize capitalism because all do not end up monetarily equal—or, as Churchill quipped, "all equally miserable." But the Bible's prescription of equality means equality under the law, as in Deuteronomy's saying that "Judges and officers . . . shall judge the people with a just judgment: Do not . . . favor one over the other." Nowhere does the Bible refer to a utopian equality that is contrary to human nature and has never been achieved.

The motive of capitalism's detractors is a quest for their own power and an envy of those who have more money. But envy is a cardinal sin and something that ought not to be.

God begins the Ten Commandments with "I am the Lord your God" and concludes with "Thou shalt not envy your neighbor, not for his wife, nor his house, nor for any of his holdings." Envy is corrosive to the individual and to those societies that embrace it. Nations that throw over capitalism for socialism have made an immoral choice.

Rabbi Spero has led congregations in Ohio and New York and is president of Caucus for America.