Two Observations

I have made no secret of my distaste for Barack Obama and his push for socialized medicine.  I have mocked Obaminacare too.

We are in the "honeymoon" phase of Obamacare - the phase where you find out how badly you are getting screwed.

Recent news reports are revealing that Obama has made several "tweaks" to the "law".  He has single-handedly postponed deadlines, suspended implementations, and reversed mandates originally imposed by the "law" on insurance companies and employers.

Ordinarily, a law is a statement of "thou shalts" or "thou shalt nots" -- maybe a few pages.  Obaminacare is not like a typical "law", rather it is a huge, 14,000-page, administrative machine.  As such, it can be rather easily tweaked by an autocratic executive branch.  The problem is - whether the congressmen read it or not (NOT!!), it was still (technically) passed into law (and upheld by the SCOTUS).

What has some people's knickers in a twist is the fact that, since it is a "law", Obama must not capriciously "tweak" parts of it without violating the Constitution.  Congress is the only body that can lawfully "amend" the law.  Obama is a crook.

From a bigger picture viewpoint, I have this second observation.  A prominent U.S. economist reported in this week's news that he and his colleagues have been conducting a 25-year study of the income trends among the middle class.  The study shows that middle-class families' incomes have remained "flat" for 25 years (while the affluent have become significantly richer).  This bolsters Obama's lament over "income inequality".  It also contradicts the theories of "trickle-down" economics.  The economist didn't really try to answer the question of whether private industries or government should do the heavy-lifting to bring about change and a better outlook for the the middle class.  He did say that the government should still try to do something.  I agree in some ways - I think it should STOP doing things.

So when I look at Obaminacare, I see this - millions more poor people have been added to the Medicaid rolls.  The rich will presumably still be able to get the health care to which they have grown accustomed.  Insurance companies will have to pay out more money, and now that they have individual state market monopolies (and the promise of a federal bailout if they lose money), they have the green light to jack up premiums ad libitum. What does this mean for you and me?  It means that the $750 I pay each month for family health insurance will probably double in the next two years.  This huge (virtually unbearable) increase will affect whom the worst? 

THE MIDDLE CLASS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's an Obacle.

You Can't Make It Float

Someone once told me that you can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him float.  I have some brief observations about the train wreck I call Obaminacare.

1.  Insurance companies' role in life is actuarial - they calculate risk and underwrite it for profit purposes.  Obama has cut the underwriting legs out from underneath the insurance companies by commanding them to insure everyone regardless of their health conditions.  This will ratchet up the cost of coverage for everyone.  Gone are the exceptions for pre-existing conditions.  Gone are lifetime reimbursement limits.  Young adults can stay on their parents' policies.  All this lovely extra protection costs money.

2. Obama is a liar.  He campaigned for months with the refrain: "If you like your plan you can keep it."  Sadly, he and his cronies ABSOLUTELY knew that likely seven million people would be forced off the policies they liked because he, Obama, was going to compel those insurers to alter the coverages included in those policies.

3.  We are learning now that the HHS administration contemplated allowing folks to browse the Affordable Care website anonymously to peruse the new rates.  This idea was scrapped at the last minute - why? - because the A-holes on Obama's political team KNEW that people would get instant sticker-shock from seeing the huge new premiums, and would run for the hills.  So now, if you want to know what your new premiums will be, you have to sign on and cough up your entire family's bio' before you see any options and pricing.  One applicant told the navigator on the other end of the phone line that the premiums were too high and she was deciding against getting coverage at this time.  The navigator told her it was too late - they had all her info' now, and she was legally required to obtain coverage.  After all, it's "a tax", right?

4.  The Healthcare.gov website slated to enroll millions of previously uninsured Americans is broken.  The website creators cannot offer any reassurances as to when the site will work properly.  Only 26,000 people have signed on to the federal insurance exchanges, and that means NOTHING, because none of those people has paid a single dollar of premiums yet.

5.  Think about this - if you never had health insurance before, and now you have a monthly premium of $550 a month, how will you pay it?  What if you have to decide whether to pay your mortgage or your insurance premium?  Now I know you know that if you fail to pay your car insurance premium, you will be in deep doo-doo, but is it so awful bad if you cannot send a $550 check to Blue Cross?  Missing car insurance premiums spells huge problems - you could get a citation; you could lose your good driver credentials; your lender could slap some crazy, force-placed Collateral Protection Insurance on your car loan.  It's not worth it, is it?  But if you skip a health insurance premium, what's the fallout?  Maybe you end up in the emergency room from a cycling accident - you get hit with a $5,000 hospital/doctor bill and you plead poverty and make $50 a month payments - or include it in your next bankruptcy.  Try scrounging up an extra $550 when you are living paycheck to paycheck.

6.  Many Democrat politicians are running for cover.  Some are even calling for a bill to compel insurers to restore the canceled plans that Obama once promised would not be canceled.  Good luck!  The government cannot command private insurers to reinstate a product they have dropped.

7.  Obama's solution to all of this is to entice all these disappointed shoppers with subsidies - "Just sign up, and we will give you a huge tax credit at the end of the year to offset the huge premiums you are paying."   - - - unless you are middle class, and make a moderate income and don't qualify for subsidies.

8.  You don't have to be a rocket surgeon to realize that this is about redistribution of wealth.  Through this program, 400,000 people have just barely added themselves to the Medicaid recipient rolls.  Obama must raise taxes or insurance premiums on the middle class to recoup the costs of that - and we've only just begun.

9.  The employer mandate has not yet gone into effect.  When the insurance companies have to find a way to pass on the huge extra expenses, they will raise the premiums on employer-sponsored health-care plans.  Many employers will dump those programs and kick their employees onto the federal exchanges.

10.  Some idiot liberals - Bob Beckel and Alan Colmes, for example - have wasted no time saying that this Obaminacare train wreck is further fodder for the argument that it is time to go with a "single-payer" health care system (translation - nationalized socialized medicine).  Frankly, if the federal government cannot successfully run a complex website, I wouldn't trust it with running all of America's health care systems.

11.  I am inclined to see liberals more as diabolical than stupid, but one would have to think that the Obama posse saw this train coming down the tracks.  For three years, opponents have been trumpeting the drawbacks and risks.  Republicans held hostage the debt ceiling increase to try to wake up the liberals to the insanity of this legislation.  The democrats accused them of ruining our country.

12.  Where do we go from here?  I'm not sure.  It seems certain that the Obaminacare machine will melt down.  Millions of people have lost their coverage, and tens of millions more will lose theirs.  Yes, the democrats will likely suffer a huge political setback.  The Republicans could retake the Senate.  Obama will not be able to push through amnesty for the 20 million illegal aliens.  He will not be able to start taxing you for your carbon footprint.

13.  OR - - is this a bigger event?  Will this social catastrophe be the trigger for a complete implosion of the American economy?  Remember that the world bankers have that as their ultimate goal.  I am fascinated to watch this unfold.  Each day brings new revelations.  Who knows? - just keep your lamps trimmed.

Drum Beat

I watched a little CNN this morning.  I have this image in my mind of the job interview process for CNN anchors -

INTERVIEWER: - - "Thanks for coming in to meet with us today.  Let's get started. 

First, do you worship Barack Obama and his socialist ideals?"

APPLICANT: - -  "Yes."

INTERVIEWER: - - "Great, you're hired. Start tomorrow."

The discussion on the network's shows today has been the horrific stories caused by the now three-day-long partial shutdown of federal government operations - children are dying of cancer, impoverished government employees cannot afford their medication, federal workers will have their homes foreclosed on, the sky will soon fall in.  Sacrosanct is Obaminacare, so that more wealth can be redistributed by the government (while paying the IRS $200 million to collect it from us).

Obama calls this "the Republican Shutdown".  He will not talk to Republican leaders to work out a compromise, so the shutdown may drag on for a while.  Today, Obama mentioned how terrible it will be if we have not only a government shutdown, but also the "economic shutdown" which will ensue if we don't "pay our bills" and meet our "financial obligations" - translate - "continue to pay our ($1 billion dollar-per-day) interest payments to the usury-mongers.  God forbid!!  Then the sky really would fall in, right?  Or would it?

Obama said that were we not to pay our debt payments, it would hurt all the other countries around the world.  If the other countries joined us, however, in an interest payment moratorium, what would happen?  I guess a few Mediterranean banking families would not collect our hard-earned paper cash that they counterfeited, and they would have to start dipping into all those gold reserves they confiscated from the world's nations.

Whom is Obama protecting?

Nobody would say that CNN's talking heads are evil, but why do they maintain this persistent pro-Obama-socialist drumbeat to convince viewers that free stuff is the right way to run a country, when the free stuff has to be stolen from other folks?  I guess conservatism runs in my blood, because I cannot understand the mindset of people who want entitlements, unless a spirit of plunder runs through their veins.  Obama's model is downright devilish and unconstitutional.

I'm going to watch this squabble over the next few days, because I think that the nation may soon realize that Obama is the one standing in the way of a solution.  He wants you to think that it is the Republicans who are being obstinate. The law of unintended consequences may kick in.

Supreme Theater

I have mixed feelings about private versus socialized health care.  The U.S. has a lower average lifespan and higher infant mortality rate than most Western nations.  Other than the U.S. (at 17%), no country spends more than 12% of its GNP on health care.  The private system of health care insurance and health care delivery in America is extremely inefficient.  All this notwithstanding, a huge majority of U.S. residents wants the Supreme Court to repeal all or most of Barack's Obaminacare monster.  Most are unaware of the onerous costs of the program that we have barely even begun to suffer.  Perhaps not many remember the sleight-of-hand maneuvers Obama conjured up in order to get the blasted thing passed.  Ordinarily, a bill of that significance cannot be passed without a 60 - 40 majority in the Senate.  Two years ago, the Democrats pulled the "reconciliation" rabbit out of the hat and passed the measure 51-49 in a virtually fraudulent manner.  I have contempt for that - - but what's new?  I have contempt for the fact that in 1819 the Supreme Court allowed a bank onto American soil which would charge us interest and eventually divest us of everything.

This next week, the U.S. Supreme Court will conduct expanded hearings to evaluate the constitutionality of Obominacare.  Yet, I have to chuckle.  Most high school kids can see the writing on this wall.  Without being too blunt, I must note that Obama's latest buddy/appointee, Elena Kagan, is unmistakably socialist/liberal.  Sonia Sotomayor cannot be far behind.  Ruth Bader Ginsburg was another liberal appointee.  Add a fourth liberal, Stephen Breyer, and you are looking at a split decision.  Roberts, Alito, Thomas, and Scalia (the conservatives) are very likely to question the constitutionality of the individual healthcare buying mandate.  This leaves Anthony Kennedy (usually a moderate) to make the decision all on his lonesome.  I predict a 5 - 4 decision one way or the other.  Like the polygamy controversy, this too is a sticky one.  Don't try to tell me that it is not undoubtedly political - political not only in the ideological leanings of each justice, but political also in the profound impacts which will come from the eventual decision.  Even the very timing of the publication of the ruling could hugely affect the upcoming presidential elections.  Every one of the justices HAS TO KNOW THIS.  There may even be a mixed ruling - upholding Abominacare, yet rejecting the individual mandate.  THEN WHAT ???

I would have more energy for this great theatrical event if it were not such a huge distraction from the real problem - bankruptcy and liquidation.  This nation has filed bankruptcy three times - 1787, 1933, and 1989.  All that's left for us now is receivership and regime change.  See Deuteronomy 28 - - -

"15  ¶ But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee: . . . . . . . . . .

43	The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.
44	He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
45	Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep His commandments and his statutes which He commanded thee.  . . . . . . . . . . .

51	and he (the enemy) shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.
52	And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.
53	And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:"

Fox Guarding Hen House II

You know I like to point out ironies in the world around us. The irony I'll highlight in today's post has nothing to do with polygamy, and everything to do with Gadianton robbers (of at least Book of Mormon fame).

I watched the news this morning and learned that Senate Minority leader, John Boehner (R-Ohio), is asking for the new Financial Reform Bill (passed yesterday in the Senate) to be swiftly repealed (partly because it does nothing to address the huge abuses perpetrated by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac). Boehner's critics are accusing him of "siding with the banks". Ostensibly, the purpose of this (Obama's) bill is to shield the nation against another meltdown like that of 2008 and place many more checks on American financial institutions. That all sounds well and good. Who among us has read and understood this 2,300 page bill? Did you know that the bill already has so many problems and loopholes that Congress is frantically working to pass a second bill to fix the problems in the first one?

Okay - so what is the big IRONY, you ask? Well, the entity which has been tasked to oversee the regulation of our nation's private financial institutions is the Federal Reserve. That would be just fine if the Federal Reserve really were "federal". In truth, the "Federal Reserve Act" was passed in 1913 after efforts to pass it the year before had failed. It had first been called the "Aldrich Plan", and the People had rejected it, knowing it was meant to concentrate the power to issue money into the hands of a private, central bank. Slyly, the name was changed to "Federal Reserve" (eventually to be set up as 12 regional, member banks). This was sufficient to hoodwink the people, and the bill passed. Do not have any illusions that this private "system" of banks is in any way "FEDERAL"! For a simple explanation, see the following two links:

The Truth of the Federal Reserve System
The Secrets of the Federal Reserve

So, now that the bill has passed, the (ever-private) Federal Reserve will perform all of the regulation of private financial institutions, deciding which ones will succeed and which will fail. The federal government has let the fox into the hen house. Methinks that the exquisite irony is that it is Obama, Pelosi and Reid who are "siding with the banks"!

Don't say I didn't warn you (and watch out for that Berwick creep whom Obama just [recess-]appointed to run ObamaCare [Medicare/Medicaid] and the end-of-life, care-rationing death-panel).

It's "sigh and cry" time.

Obama-Care for Kids

I watched the congressional antics last Saturday on C-SPAN. At stake was the proposed passage of the Obama/Reid/Pelosi Health Care Reform bill. Congressman John Boehner did a good job of highlighting the pernicious provisions of the latest version of the bill. The bill passed by two votes.

Today I stumbled across an August 2009 blogpost which discussed a provision in the health care bill that calls for "mandated reporters". These are people who would come to your home under government auspices and regularly check up on your young children. For more details, read -

http://cpscorruption.blogspot.com/2009/08/obamacare-send-in-social-workers.html

The blogger is obviously passionate about this topic - but SO AM I !!!

Here's the thing - our nation is utterly ruined. If a 22-year-old single woman with no kids can waltz into my home and pretty much decide (based on my attitude, or my religion, or my home-schooling, or my home-birthing, or my use of natural healing) that my kids are "at-risk" and probably need to be removed, then this Republic is cooked, and everything the Framers lived and died for is gone. IT IS JUST SIMPLY TOO MUCH UNFETTERED POWER!

Try having ONE of your kids taken (let alone 10!). You don't sleep. You can hardly work. Your stress level goes sky-high. You would honestly gladly agree to spend five years in prison rather than have the government permanently remove any of your kids. So therein lies the power. If Obama can hold the specter of the threat of removal of one of your kids over your head, then you are powerless. Your sense of powerlessness and frustration is 100%. No wonder they are also talking about doing away with the Second Amendment.

A good friend sent me a link to a video about the stunning extent of the corruption in our current government/banking machine. It tells the story infinitely more eloquently than I ever could.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VebOTc-7shU

Methinks they want even more than just our kids. I am reminded of the promise/threat given to Lehi 2600 years ago -

7 Wherefore, this land is consecrated unto him whom he shall bring. And if it so be that they shall serve him according to the commandments which he hath given, it shall be a land of liberty unto them; wherefore, they shall never be brought down into captivity; if so, it shall be because of iniquity; for if iniquity shall abound cursed shall be the land for their sakes, but unto the righteous it shall be blessed forever.

8 And behold, it is wisdom that this land should be kept as yet from the knowledge of other nations; for behold, many nations would overrun the land, that there would be no place for an inheritance.

9 Wherefore, I, Lehi, have obtained a promise, that inasmuch as those whom the Lord God shall bring out of the land of Jerusalem shall keep his commandments, they shall prosper upon the face of this land; and they shall be kept from all other nations, that they may possess this land unto themselves. And if it so be that they shall keep his commandments they shall be blessed upon the face of this land, and there shall be none to molest them, nor to take away the land of their inheritance; and they shall dwell safely forever.

10 But behold, when the time cometh that they shall dwindle in unbelief, after they have received so great blessings from the hand of the Lord—having a knowledge of the creation of the earth, and all men, knowing the great and marvelous works of the Lord from the creation of the world; having power given them to do all things by faith; having all the commandments from the beginning, and having been brought by his infinite goodness into this precious land of promise—behold, I say, if the day shall come that they will reject the Holy One of Israel, the true Messiah, their Redeemer and their God, behold, the judgments of him that is just shall rest upon them.

11 Yea, he will bring other nations unto them, and he will give unto them power, and he will take away from them the lands of their possessions, and he will cause them to be scattered and smitten. (Book of Mormon - II Nephi 9)

THIS ALSO REMINDS ME OF GOD'S PROMISE/THREAT in Deuteronomy 28 - (take particular note of verse 41)

¹And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:

²And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.

³Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.

⁴Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.

⁵Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.

⁶Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.

⁷The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.

⁸The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

⁹The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways.

¹⁰And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee.

¹¹And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

¹²The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.

¹³And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:

¹⁴And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

¹⁵But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:

¹⁶Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.

¹⁷Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.

¹⁸Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.

¹⁹Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.

²⁰The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.

²¹The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.

²²The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.

²³And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.

²⁴The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

²⁵The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.

²⁶And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.

²⁷The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.

²⁸The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart:

²⁹And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.

³⁰Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.

³¹Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them.

³²Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long; and there shall be no might in thine hand.

³³The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:

³⁴So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

³⁵The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.

³⁶The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.

³⁷And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.

³⁸Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.

³⁹Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.

⁴⁰Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit.

⁴¹Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity.

⁴²All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.

⁴³The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.

⁴⁴He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.

⁴⁵Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:

⁴⁶And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.

⁴⁷Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;

⁴⁸Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.

⁴⁹The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;

⁵⁰A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young:

⁵¹And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.

⁵²And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.

⁵³And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:

⁵⁴So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:

⁵⁵So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.

⁵⁶The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

⁵⁷And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.

⁵⁸If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD;

⁵⁹Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.

⁶⁰Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.

⁶¹Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

⁶²And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD thy God.

⁶³And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it.

⁶⁴And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.

⁶⁵And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:

⁶⁶And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:

⁶⁷In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

⁶⁸And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.

I think verses 43 and 44 are referring to Bernanke . . . .