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From: dmcanzi@watdcsu.UUCP (David Canzi)
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Subject: Re: Interest Rates. part 2
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Date: Sat, 28-Jul-84 01:55:40 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 28 01:55:40 1984
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> > One event that I saw last fall on TV struck home to me. They were 
> > interviewing farmers in the midwest who were loosing their farms to the 
> > banks.  The banker said something like "It's too bad, but, THERE'S NOTHING 
> > THAT CAN BE DONE."  
> 
> I just found a passage from the New Testament that is relevant to my claim
> that the banker was misled when he said nothing could be done.
> 
> To wit: Luke 7, vs. 41-42
> 
> 	"Two men owed money to a certain moneylender. One owed him five 
> 	hundred denarii [500 days wages] and the other fifty.  Neither of them 
> 	had the money to pay him back, so he cancelled the debts of both."
> 
> I can't imagine a more clear statement that it is possible to be just with 
> those who owe us money, that it is a possible course to take a debt as
> lost without ruining the lives of the debtor.
> 
> Bill Smith
> ihnp4!mhuxi!princeton!siemens!wws
Well, isn't that a nice, noble idea.  Trouble is, the money the banker would
be giving away by forgiving debtors is not his money; it's mine (or yours,
if you have money in the bank).  If a banker wants to be generous, it
should come out of his own pocket.  Charity performed with other people's
money, and without their permission, isn't charity.

	David Canzi, watmath!dmcanzi