Re: My decision to give away ownership of Hobby Lobby: I chose God

On 10/21/22 9:20 PM, John Dillinger wrote:
>   foxnews.com
> My decision to give away ownership of Hobby Lobby: I chose God
> David Green
> 
> Patagonia's founder recently made news when he gave away the ownership
> in his company to allow the mission and purpose to remain intact. His
> decision, while rare, reflects the decision of other business owners
> like Alan Barnhart of Barnhart Crane.
> 
> I experienced a similar decision-making process with my ownership of
> Hobby Lobby; I chose God.
> 
> The thought process reflects a basic competition of ideas that I think
> every business leader should reflect upon. What is the true source of
> your success?
> 
> In the mid-1980s I went through a period where I'd grown proud
> thinking that I had the Midas touch – and I nearly lost the business.
> God had to show me that He was the one who granted success. The Bible
> says in Deuteronomy 8.18 that it's God who gives us the power to make
> wealth.
> 
> In that vein, I'd encourage every leader to consider their source of
> truth. What is the basis upon which they make decisions? Is it just
> themselves, or even a leadership team?
> 
> For me, my source of truth has always been prayer and the Bible. I
> truly believe that if leaders pray and seek truth from the Bible that
> their businesses will be revolutionized.
> 
> For instance, the Bible talks about giving a tithe or 10%. In fact,
> tithing is one of those areas where God specifically challenges us to
> give and see if he won't throw open the windows of blessing (Malachi
> 3:10). Can you imagine what would happen if every top leader in
> business became a tither? There would be literally billions available
> for good work around the world.
> 
> Another simple idea – the book of Proverbs in the Bible has 31
> chapters – read a chapter a day to get wisdom beyond yourself.
> 
> But perhaps the biggest challenge is to ask the question of whether
> you are an owner or a steward – a manager of what you've been
> entrusted with.
> 
> MY LATE WIFE KIM TAUGHT ME HOW TO HONOR OUR LOVED ONES BY FOCUSING ON
> SOMETHING THAT WILL OUTLAST US
> 
> As an owner, there are certain rights and responsibilities, including
> the right to sell the company and keep the profits for yourself and
> your family. As our company grew, that idea began to bother me more
> and more. Well-meaning attorneys and accountants advised me to simply
> pass ownership down to my children and grandchildren. It didn't seem
> fair to me that I might change or even ruin the future of
> grandchildren who had not even been born yet.
> 
> As I considered my path, I realized that all my success had come from
> God. My wife, Barbara, and I had started this business with a $600
> loan and I don't think anyone would have bet on us to become
> successful.
> 
> But from the very beginning our purpose was to honor God in all that
> we did. We worked hard and God gave the results. As we were blessed by
> God, we saw it as a great privilege to give back. We've been able to
> provide hope through supporting ministries and planting churches all
> over the world.
> 
> That bigger mission and purpose helped me realize that I was just a
> steward, a manager of what God had entrusted me. God was the true
> owner of my business.
> 
> That stewardship gave me a greater responsibility. I wasn't supposed
> to take the profits of the business and use them for myself. I also
> had a responsibility to the employees that God had put in my charge.
> This is why our company pays a minimum wage of $18.50 per hour, why we
> close on Sunday (which had been our most profitable day of business),
> and why we close by 8 p.m. every day.
> 
> More importantly, I was responsible for the mission and purpose of
> what I'd been given. When I realized that I was just a steward, it was
> easy to give away my ownership.
> 
> I think every CEO and business leader should consider whether they are
> owners or stewards. Consider the idea of where your success comes
> from. I've seen many a business with the greatest of ideas not make
> it, and yet others with the simplest of ideas thrive. I believe that
> God is the one who grants success, and with it the responsibility to
> be a good manager.
> 
> Best of all, when I made the decision to give away my ownership,
> similar to Patagonia's Yvon Chouinard, it allowed us to sustain our
> mission and purpose. It gives me a bigger purpose than just making
> money. Like Chouinard said, "Instead of 'going public,' you could say
> we're 'going purpose.'"
> 
> In Europe and other parts of the world there are businesses that have
> been in existence for more than 200 years. We tend to not think like
> that in the United States. It's made me think more and more about the
> idea of building a business to last 200 years – a business that would
> continue to honor God, reward employees with meaningful work and
> compensation, and be great contributors to hope and healing around the
> world.
> 
> The responsibility to steward that kind of culture is powerful. Truly,
> that is noble work.
> 
> David Green is the CEO and founder of Hobby Lobby, the largest
> privately held arts-and-crafts retailer in the world, and the author
> of the new book "Leadership NOT by the Book."
> 
> 
> 
Interesting concept, and it's pretty much what I expressed as my 
philosophy "minus the God" in the philosophy.


If Democrats wanted to make Government great and solve all those 
problems of poverty why do they cling so tight to their own money and 
funnel it to Democrat tax exempt corporations and private 
FUNDS/FOUNDATIONS and like the Clinton run foundation and colleges that 
try to indoctrinate students that have huge ENDOWMENTS that they don't 
use for good and equal merit based efficient purposes.


They create corruptions and false narratives to gain power and more money.

For all their empty bluster the Democrats are the ones least likely to 
do anything good for FREEDOM LOVING PEOPLE. There is an element of 
CONTROL in everything that the Democrats do, meaning that their 
philanthropic narrative is all a facade....


They want to entrap you into their network of corruption, the Democrats 
want to own you... the Democrats never outgrew their controlling nature 
that caused them to create the Confederacy "Slave Union of the Southern 
States" where they also tried to manipulate people into helping them get 
what they wanted, and what the Democrats want is power over others.

The direct approach of PLANTATION SLAVERY failed with the DEMOCRAT 
FOUNDED Confederacy, and now the Democrats are still trying to gain the 
power to enslave people by corruption and coercion and.... propaganda 
that tells you that *FRACTIONAL SLAVERY* like ObamaCare is NOT slavery 
when the Constitution says it is.

The problem with that is that the 13th Amendment says it is.

Amendment XIII
Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a 
punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, 
shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their 
jurisdiction.

Forcing "someone to give the profits from their labor" to "someone that 
did not do the labor" is slavery.


It doesn't matter whether it's the Government doing it by organizing 
people into groups or whether it's a Plantation Owner doing it. It's 
still SLAVERY TAKING PLACE within the United States.

And the 13th specifically says that unless the SLAVERY/SERVITUDE is for 
*PUNISHMENT OF A CRIME* AND THE PARTY(not even a person or citizen) but 
anyone "as in party" is duly convicted of a crime...  only then can they 
be taxed into slavery or otherwise forced to work to pay for someone 
else to get the money. But the Government can't pass a law that makes it 
a crime to NOT work for someone and be denied the RIGHT "to not give the 
fruits of your own labor.

Which makes it Unconstitutional for the U.S. Government and all others 
to take from one person to give to another as it also denies the 
Government the power to tax from one person to give to another without 
it being for the public use in general.

Which makes all Government TRANSFER PAYMENTS directly to people or 
States, UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

And tax laws or other Federal laws can't violate that because the 
Supremacy Clause lays out that the Federal law is supreme and if they 
are denied power to make that Federal or State law as in the 13th 
Amendment denying the power to take money from one person and give it to 
another thereby enslaving the person doing the labor and rewarding the 
one not doing the labor, it violates the qualifier in the 13th 
Amendment, and that qualifier says the slavery/servitude has to be 
PUNISHMENT FOR A CRIME for which THE PARTY HAS BEEN DULY CONVICTED.

*except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been* 
*duly* *convicted, shall exist within the United States*

And no tax law or appropriations law can violate that Constitutional 
restriction and MANDATE.

NOT even the United States Government can make persons slaves if we have 
NOT been duly convicted of a crime.

WELFARE is a SLAVERY scam.

Charity which is voluntary is LEGAL, taxes and appropriations laws for 
welfare and free stuff directly to people as transfer payments and to 
States for transfer payments is Unconstitutional slavery being made 
systemic slavery.

Welcome to Socialism, where mediocrity is the highest achievement possible.


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-That's Karma-

*IF YOU'RE READING THIS YOU ARE A SURVIVOR*
*The first rule of SURVIVAL CLUB* is we talk about it, we hate 
censorship. Never trust what Democrats or Marxists tell you. Make them 
prove it with actual verifiable facts and science. And if you didn't 
find the duplicitous lies in what the Marxist-Democrats told you then 
you didn't dig deep enough. The *Gruber* *Doctrine* is the 
Marxist-Democrat plan that says it's "to the Democrats advantage to have 
a lack of transparency and then lie about everything".
https://rumble.com/vkt8ld-call-it-the-stupidity-of-the-american-voter-or-whatever.-how-libs-exploit-t.html

*The next rule of SURVIVAL CLUB* is
207 - *DEMOCRAT POLICY FAILURE*

a.) You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the
wealthy out of prosperity.

b.) What one person receives without working for, another person must
work for without receiving. And that's the definition of SLAVERY

c.) The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government
does not first take from somebody else.

d.) You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!

e.) When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work 
because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other 
half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is 
going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any 
nation.

f.) You can't legislate gays to be equal by forcing store owners into 
involuntary servitude and being less equal when obtaining a business 
license. That violates the 13th amendment.

g.) If a marriage license/law can *NOT* tell you who *you* *must* 
*engage* *in* *marriage* *with* depending on their sexual identity 
(Because it's unconstitutional) how can a business license/law tell you 
*who* *you* *must* *engage* *in* *commerce* *with* depending on their 
sexual identity?  Is it or isn't it UNCONSTITUTIONAL for government to 
use a license/law to mandate or limit participation depending on sexual 
identity...? The governments decisions can't flip flop depending on the 
type of license.