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[Ya-ta Boy]

The market is fine. We are the ones who are not functioning properly.

Everyone seems to have forgotten that the free market is not just some theory that we can abandon when things get rough. It requires faith. It is a lot like believing in another all-powerful being. God. You see, like God, the market is all around us. The market guides us with an invisible hand. Like God, if we have faith in it, the free market is the answer to all our problems, but if we doubt it, it will withhold its precious gifts.

Now some are going to say that this financial meltdown shows the market is fallible, that it is in fact not God. Well, it does not mean that the market is not God. It means that the market is just a dangerous and destructive god. Think of the Old Testament. Look at Job. Job was riding high on a big livestock and children bubble, before that burst. He stayed faithful to God and got back even more than he lost.

Or, now that I think of it, maybe the market is not like the Judeo-Christian god at all, It might be a blindly vengeful god, with a thousand hungry mouths who comes in the form of a winged serpent who comes to destroy the universe with a black flame.

Hear me O children of capitalism, thou shalt not abandon the one true god of capitalism for the false idol of socialism. That way lies eternal damnation. We must believe even harder. Our god demands sacrifice. And I don�t mean regulation. I mean human flesh. We already threw Lehman Brothers into the mouth of the beast. Then it ate AIG. And it ate WaMu and then it ate Wachovia. It�s gobbling Wall Street firm by firm and it�s still hungry. I say we feed it Main Street. Being eaten alive by Wall Street is better than admitting the government should have any role. So everybody. Calm down. There is nothing we can do now. Thanks to the House Republicans we are in the market�s hands and it will take care of us only if you trust it. O ye of little faith.


Further reading:

�That they were always exposed to destruction; as one that stands or walks in slippery places is always exposed to fall. This is implied in the manner of their destruction coming upon them, being represented by their foot sliding�

It implies, that they were always exposed to sudden unexpected destruction. As he that walks in slippery places is every moment liable to fall, he cannot foresee one moment whether he shall stand or fall the next; and when he does fall, he falls at once without warning�
Another thing implied is, that they are liable to fall of themselves, without being thrown down by the hand of another; as he that stands or walks on slippery ground needs nothing but his own weight to throw him down.
That the reason why they are not fallen already and do not fall now is only that God's appointed time is not come. For it is said, that when that due time, or appointed time comes, their foot shall slide. Then they shall be left to fall, as they are inclined by their own weight. God will not hold them up in these slippery places any longer, but will let them go; and then, at that very instant, they shall fall into destruction; as he that stands on such slippery declining ground, on the edge of a pit, he cannot stand alone, when he is let go he immediately falls and is lost.
The observation from the words that I would now insist upon is this. -- "There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God." -- By the mere pleasure of God, I mean his sovereign pleasure, his arbitrary will, restrained by no obligation, hindered by no manner of difficulty, any more than if nothing else but God's mere will had in the least degree, or in any respect whatsoever, any hand in the preservation of wicked men one moment.