In keeping with the spirit ( pardon the pun) of Halloween, let me go on record as saying this is clearly the most utterly perverse concept for a "holiday" that any predominantly Christian world has ever had the sheer audacity to invent in the history of the church. First of all, to use the term of "holiday" to categorize it is blasphemously inaccurate at best, as there is certainly nothing Holy about the concept as it has evolved today, and rather lame Christian reasoning when it was first conceived. The concept of dressing up like witches, ghouls, and goblins was originally intended to "frighten" away the evil spirits on All Saints Eve, or "All Hallows Eve", thereby protecting the parishoners of the local Catholic church in the dark ages, which was more than likely meant to pacify the locals who probably kept some pagan festival at that time, and the local preists wanted to seem to "Christianize" the revelry to make it seem they were having an effect on the populace, which was difficult since those few who were literate were kept from reading the Bible, the sole responsibility, and even the sole property of the priests.
Jesus himself put the lie to the concept of frightening demonic forces away with scarey costumes when he said, "How can Satan cast out Satan..." since, "a house divided can not stand". Jesus is the only one that really scares Satan and his minions, along with Christian believers willing to resist them in the name of Jesus. Satan knows that he has no authority over Christians, in Jesus' name, and that Jesus has the ultimate authority over them to cast them into Hell, which He will do when the time is right. In the mean time Satan is trying to frighten as many of us as he can into believing that all that I've just written is wrong, and that he is the most powerful force in the world, not God.
The thing that really nauseates me is the stampede of T.V. shows and movies that are falling all over themselves to produce some new story about how the heroes and heroins struggle mightily to kill off the millions of Vampires, Werewolves, and Zombies that are roaming the earth, usually after some cataclysmic event which they blasphemously describe with what they obviously consider to be a generic term, of "Apocalypse".
There is nothing generic about the Apocalypse. There is only one source for the word itself ( the Bible), and it's use is found only in the book of Revelation, which also is the definition of "Apocalypse" (meaning "revelation", or "uncovering"). I have come to be convinced that Hollywood's perverse obsession with producing such an overwhelming flood of Vampire, and Zombie flicks, and the audiences' even greater thirst ( again, pardon the pun) to view them is no less than additional evidence that the End Times are upon us and that Satan is trying to prepare as many as he can to rationalize the inexplicable disappearance of multiple millions of born-again Christians around the world, simultaneously, when Jesus "Raptures" the Church and takes us all to heaven. Those who remain will be desperate for some comfortable explanation, and I guess they'll prefer to believe that all the Vampires, and Zombies flew in from Mars in their flying saucers to round up all the Christians to take home to Mars, for food. ( New meaning to the term, "guess who's coming to dinner?", huh!) Perhaps we should all think twice before eating any candy made by the Mars Corporation, including "Snickers", and "Three Musketeers". ( Parents, check your childrens' "Trick Or Treat" bags carefully tomorrow!)
Anyway, it is interesting to see just how much publicity Hollywood, and more recently all the "reality" Cable networks, are giving to the concept of "surviving" the Apocalypse and having to deal with the chaos that they imagine will follow. I get tickled to watch some of these so-called "Prepper" shows to see the unbelievable lengths to which some people are desperately willing to go to "protect" their families, and their property from the hoards of starving survivors of the Apocalypse, who've figured out that their food stores are the only supplies left after the grocery stores have all been pillaged to emptiness. It's sad to realize all the money that's being spent, and all the back-breaking labor they're putting into their preparations, just so they don't have to ask Jesus to save their souls now, and their whole beings later. There is even one formerly disgraced televangelist who apparently finances his new show ( since his prison record most likely prohibits his establishing a non-profit ministry to raise donations) by selling freeze-dried foods, and other emergency-preparedness stuff that is consistent with the Prepper mentality. He gets around this apparent Biblical inconsistency by saying it's just to prepare for any emergency social breakdown, but it does sound very similar to the old Howard Ruff financial collapse scenario of the 1980's, when he was pushing his freeze-dried Mormon concept of preparedness. There's certainly nothing wrong with the concept, but it seems so silly if they are trusting in their freeze-dried foods, instead of trusting in Jesus to save them from having to survive the aftermath of the real Apocalypse, which may not be too far off. What are they going to do when Jesus comes? Are the going to ask Jesus to take along their freeze-dried supplies? I guess they'll have to leave it all behind for the "survivors" to fight over. Oh wait, I forgot that Vampires, and Zombies don't eat regular food. So I guess that leaves the Zombies to try and eat the brains of all the Vampires, while the Vampires are trying to drink the blood of the Zombies ( if they have any left). And on that pleasant thought, let me say "Happy Halloween, everybody"!
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Monday, October 28, 2013
A Pox On Both Your Houses!!!
Pardon my political cynicism, but this Shakespearean quote expresses my feelings toward today's political chaos better than I can myself. I am a registered Independent ( conservative, evangelical) and frustrated as heck at the bone-headed belligerence of the party lines of both the Democratic, and Republican parties. Its time we as responsible Americans take charge of both parties, and serve notice that the politics of yesterday ( meaning the last 50 years) is no longer acceptable, and either they clean house on their greedy, irresponsible policies, and practices, or we will clean house of them. The third choice is a new third Party, which is more difficult to create with sufficient credibility, though the Tea Party is making a stab at it ( see my last post).
Fifty years ago America was entering a period of heightened economic prosperity, though much of it was created by the early stages of Government induced inflationary spending, to soften the effects of both the Great Depression, and World War II. If that had been limited to several years before our government began to pay off the principle of our debt we could have handled it well enough. But successive Congressional, and presidential administrations found it easier to simply pay off the interest, and allow the whole debt to increase, leaving the increasing mess for their successors to deal with ( which of course no one did). Our present-day hyper-inflationary quagmire is the horribly painful result of that profligate Government spending, which left the impression for those who did not understand what was happening that this kind of prosperity was both natural, and reliable for the indefinite future. What we were not told was that it would all come due eventually, in the form of runaway hyper-inflation like Germany suffered in the 1920's, and which Hitler used to justify his reign of terror ( especially on the Jews). We are now approaching a time when our currency will collapse, and we will suffer such runaway inflation that it will make Germany's 1920's look like a kindergarten parody. This may well be the harbinger of the the economic crisis the Bible describes in Revelation chapter 6, when it talks of a future time when a man's daily labor will earn him merely enough to pay for a day's amount of food. ( See Rev. 6: 5,&6; where it talks about the "opening of the third seal".)
What we desperately need is at least one Party that will actually stand for righteousness, in the face of a population that has been conditioned to believe a whole series of political lies, to the point where they find the truth to be hilariously rediculous ( i.e., John Stewart, of the "Dailey Show", who has made a lucrative career out of witty ridicule of the truth, and the few people who have the courage to speak it, almost exclusively conservatives. This follows the old tried, and true tactic of Liberal politics: "When you have no good argument to the contrary, simply ridicule the opposition". Although I must credit him with some hilarious wit concerning "Obamacare", recently. I suppose that fiasco seemed to be just a bit too lame-brained for him to pass up the opportunity to slam it good, even if it was a liberal "sacred cow". I tried hard not to laugh at his quips, but the absurd irony of it all got the better of me. It was hilarious! Too bad Stewart's not on our side!)
Today, we have a Democratic Party that once was the bastion of Red-neck racism, Ku Klux Klan protectionism, and horrified resistance to anything that smacked of Big-Government spending, because it threatened their racist-based political empire, which was breathlessly waiting for, "the South to rise again". This is the basis of liberal politicians trying to associate tax cuts with Racism. Simply associate something you ( the liberals) hate, with something that is universally despised and you won't need to explain why you hate it. As the party found that Government spending could quiet the outrage of the masses and coincidentally guarantee re-election, the party slowly changed from it's racist roots to one that merely bought off criticism by throwing taxpayer's money at whatever special interest yelled the loudest. But the exponential nature of inflationary spending necessitates continued spending, at greater and greater levels, or the whole "house of cards" will collapse in on itself, leaving whatever party is in control to take political responsibility for the inevitable deflationary depression that must follow. We are on the brink of that point now, we just can't see it because the Fed has continued to cleverly hyper-inflate the currency sufficiently to temporarily disguise it from public view. At some point their efforts to continue doing so will become inadequate to hide it, and it will all collapse. Till then, we will continue to have a welfare system that rewards teen-aged girls for intentionally getting pregnant ( when neither the father, nor the mother intend to get married and raise the child, but prefer to let the Government pay for it all), and they find that the more children they have ( regardless of how many different fathers) the more profitable it is. Also, we will continue to struggle with a financially bereft Social Security system that continues to foment the lie that it is paying money that we have saved from our employment years, rather than paying out cash borrowed from general tax revenues. The Democrats continue to ignore this bankrupt quagmire, preferring to throw more inflated money at it, while hoping the crisis will somehow disappear. And the best idea the Republicans can come up with is to raise the eligibility age a few years, which is a heartless rip-off of those who will truly be in need in future years, when they are unable to work.
The obvious solution to Social Security's financial stability is simple, but politically painful for the politicians who must vote it into law. They must have the courage to recognize that the real purpose of Social Security is to provide Emergiency Aid to the elderly who can demonstrate that they can not provide for their care themselves. Obviously, this excludes those who are so rich that they can afford to pay for their own needs, instead of receiving benefits that are as much as six, or seven times greater than those who are desperately in need, when those obscenely large benefits wouldn't begin to pay a small portion of the cost of the rich person's lifestyle, which they can easily afford themselves. Why does the Government continue to pay huge benefits to those who don't need it, and a comparative pittance to those who do, and still wring their hands worrying about how to save Social Security from bankruptcy??? It's mind-boggling lunacy that can't pass for status quo anywhere else but the Federal Government!
Now for the Republicans, and their Sacred-Cow Tax Breaks, and exemptions for wealthy Tax(non)-payers. They have become the Lobbying equivalent of Meth-amphetamine addicts who desperately protect every tax loophole that benefits the rich ( individual and corporate), at the expense of the slowly disappearing middle-class, who's left to pay for the profligate spending of the Democrats. If Congress would ever do the right thing ( fat chance!) and create real campaign finance reform by limiting contributions to a $100.00 maximum for each individual,( who must declare it, legally), while abolishing all foreign, and corporate contributions ( including Labor Unions), then we might have Congressmen who campaign for what they actually believe to be right, rather than what they have sold themselves out to be to the lobbying interests, to raise sufficient funds to get re-elected. If every politician were so limited in how they raised campaign funds ( legally, at least) they would need to earn it by convincing there constituents that they represented money well spent. And they would have to spend it more surgically, which means fewer media ads, and thus less influence for the media ( which we all know is corrupt and nauseatingly biased). Then there would need to be careful accounting of how much is raised, and exactly how it is spent, so any campaign that spends more than it can account for will immediately set off alarms for corruption prosecution.
This is what I believe needs to happen if America is going to save itself from declining into a third-world economic status, in the not too distant future. But I'm afraid I remain skeptical that there remain enough courageous voters in America to hold our politicians to these standards. Pardon my cynicism, and pray God that I'm wrong!
Fifty years ago America was entering a period of heightened economic prosperity, though much of it was created by the early stages of Government induced inflationary spending, to soften the effects of both the Great Depression, and World War II. If that had been limited to several years before our government began to pay off the principle of our debt we could have handled it well enough. But successive Congressional, and presidential administrations found it easier to simply pay off the interest, and allow the whole debt to increase, leaving the increasing mess for their successors to deal with ( which of course no one did). Our present-day hyper-inflationary quagmire is the horribly painful result of that profligate Government spending, which left the impression for those who did not understand what was happening that this kind of prosperity was both natural, and reliable for the indefinite future. What we were not told was that it would all come due eventually, in the form of runaway hyper-inflation like Germany suffered in the 1920's, and which Hitler used to justify his reign of terror ( especially on the Jews). We are now approaching a time when our currency will collapse, and we will suffer such runaway inflation that it will make Germany's 1920's look like a kindergarten parody. This may well be the harbinger of the the economic crisis the Bible describes in Revelation chapter 6, when it talks of a future time when a man's daily labor will earn him merely enough to pay for a day's amount of food. ( See Rev. 6: 5,&6; where it talks about the "opening of the third seal".)
What we desperately need is at least one Party that will actually stand for righteousness, in the face of a population that has been conditioned to believe a whole series of political lies, to the point where they find the truth to be hilariously rediculous ( i.e., John Stewart, of the "Dailey Show", who has made a lucrative career out of witty ridicule of the truth, and the few people who have the courage to speak it, almost exclusively conservatives. This follows the old tried, and true tactic of Liberal politics: "When you have no good argument to the contrary, simply ridicule the opposition". Although I must credit him with some hilarious wit concerning "Obamacare", recently. I suppose that fiasco seemed to be just a bit too lame-brained for him to pass up the opportunity to slam it good, even if it was a liberal "sacred cow". I tried hard not to laugh at his quips, but the absurd irony of it all got the better of me. It was hilarious! Too bad Stewart's not on our side!)
Today, we have a Democratic Party that once was the bastion of Red-neck racism, Ku Klux Klan protectionism, and horrified resistance to anything that smacked of Big-Government spending, because it threatened their racist-based political empire, which was breathlessly waiting for, "the South to rise again". This is the basis of liberal politicians trying to associate tax cuts with Racism. Simply associate something you ( the liberals) hate, with something that is universally despised and you won't need to explain why you hate it. As the party found that Government spending could quiet the outrage of the masses and coincidentally guarantee re-election, the party slowly changed from it's racist roots to one that merely bought off criticism by throwing taxpayer's money at whatever special interest yelled the loudest. But the exponential nature of inflationary spending necessitates continued spending, at greater and greater levels, or the whole "house of cards" will collapse in on itself, leaving whatever party is in control to take political responsibility for the inevitable deflationary depression that must follow. We are on the brink of that point now, we just can't see it because the Fed has continued to cleverly hyper-inflate the currency sufficiently to temporarily disguise it from public view. At some point their efforts to continue doing so will become inadequate to hide it, and it will all collapse. Till then, we will continue to have a welfare system that rewards teen-aged girls for intentionally getting pregnant ( when neither the father, nor the mother intend to get married and raise the child, but prefer to let the Government pay for it all), and they find that the more children they have ( regardless of how many different fathers) the more profitable it is. Also, we will continue to struggle with a financially bereft Social Security system that continues to foment the lie that it is paying money that we have saved from our employment years, rather than paying out cash borrowed from general tax revenues. The Democrats continue to ignore this bankrupt quagmire, preferring to throw more inflated money at it, while hoping the crisis will somehow disappear. And the best idea the Republicans can come up with is to raise the eligibility age a few years, which is a heartless rip-off of those who will truly be in need in future years, when they are unable to work.
The obvious solution to Social Security's financial stability is simple, but politically painful for the politicians who must vote it into law. They must have the courage to recognize that the real purpose of Social Security is to provide Emergiency Aid to the elderly who can demonstrate that they can not provide for their care themselves. Obviously, this excludes those who are so rich that they can afford to pay for their own needs, instead of receiving benefits that are as much as six, or seven times greater than those who are desperately in need, when those obscenely large benefits wouldn't begin to pay a small portion of the cost of the rich person's lifestyle, which they can easily afford themselves. Why does the Government continue to pay huge benefits to those who don't need it, and a comparative pittance to those who do, and still wring their hands worrying about how to save Social Security from bankruptcy??? It's mind-boggling lunacy that can't pass for status quo anywhere else but the Federal Government!
Now for the Republicans, and their Sacred-Cow Tax Breaks, and exemptions for wealthy Tax(non)-payers. They have become the Lobbying equivalent of Meth-amphetamine addicts who desperately protect every tax loophole that benefits the rich ( individual and corporate), at the expense of the slowly disappearing middle-class, who's left to pay for the profligate spending of the Democrats. If Congress would ever do the right thing ( fat chance!) and create real campaign finance reform by limiting contributions to a $100.00 maximum for each individual,( who must declare it, legally), while abolishing all foreign, and corporate contributions ( including Labor Unions), then we might have Congressmen who campaign for what they actually believe to be right, rather than what they have sold themselves out to be to the lobbying interests, to raise sufficient funds to get re-elected. If every politician were so limited in how they raised campaign funds ( legally, at least) they would need to earn it by convincing there constituents that they represented money well spent. And they would have to spend it more surgically, which means fewer media ads, and thus less influence for the media ( which we all know is corrupt and nauseatingly biased). Then there would need to be careful accounting of how much is raised, and exactly how it is spent, so any campaign that spends more than it can account for will immediately set off alarms for corruption prosecution.
This is what I believe needs to happen if America is going to save itself from declining into a third-world economic status, in the not too distant future. But I'm afraid I remain skeptical that there remain enough courageous voters in America to hold our politicians to these standards. Pardon my cynicism, and pray God that I'm wrong!
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Lets Have A Party!
We're all invited! Welcome...come on in! Just one little problem...No fun allowed! At least not likely, or not for quite a while. No Booze, certainly no illegal drugs, no music, no dancing ( at least not the non-verbal kind), no wild sexual orgies, nor anything that passes for "fun" among liberal, Humanists, or atheists; nor teens and twenty-year-olds who really have no good idea where they stand, morally and politically. In fact, all we're doing right now is just sitting around and waiting to see what's going to happen. Sound like fun??? Well, me neither.
We are serving refreshments, though. How do you like your Tea? Sugar? Sorry, our's only comes complete with all the bitterness of the straightest brew. And no milk either. Only those who've been weened are welcome at this affair. We didn't have time to prepare any food either, this party kind of caught us all by surprise, and we really weren't prepared for a big get together. So, I guess we'll just sit around and guzzle Tea until it comes out our eyeballs!
That's right, you guessed it! We're talking about the Great American Tea Party, named for the historical Bostonian revolt against intolerably oppressive Government, which initiated the American Revolution. Back then there were not even a lot of people who even realized how intolerable their Government was, outside of Boston. There was great concern that if Boston's outrage could not be expressed convincingly to the more populous Virginia colonists the whole conflict surrounding the Tea Party Revolt would prove to be futile, and would be quickly stamped out by British troops. ( Which would bring new meaning to the dreaded term of "the Stamp Act".)
But thanks to King George's belligerence, and the flowery prose of Thomas Payne's "Common Cause", coupled with a few fire-brand orations from Patriots such as Patrick Henry, this country's mood slowly began to turn from blind obedience, and cattle-brained acceptance of the status quo, to one of progressive outrage ( enough to feed a Revolution through to it's unlikely victory).
Now we find ourselves in much the same place as our fore-fathers were. Oppressed by an intransigent Legislature, which supports a foolish ideologue of a socialist President, who thinks he is above our Constitutional form of government, and that "majority rules" is the only thing that matters when it comes to the enforcement of Law. And besides, even if we ultimately reject his ideals, he probably figures he'll be out of work in three more years, so all he really wants is to gain international fame and respect, especially among radical Muslim nations so that he will ultimately be "elected" as the one-world Caliphate Leader, who will turn the world into a form of Muslim-dominated Socialism. And there will be no term limit for that job.
The only hope that I can see for a resurgent America is in a third Party revolt, like the Tea Party, but not necessarily that. Any party that can convince enough Americans that the Liberalism of the Democrats is just another form of economic slavery, and that the wishy-washy "Moderate" Republicans have nothing better to offer, as long as we keep propping up Wall Street, and the Banking industry with hyperinflationary cash. Someone has got to tell the people the truth, even though it's obvious that we really don't want to hear it. And the Tea Party of recent has done the best job of trying to do that lately.
Now, the Liberals are gleefully praising themselves for forcing the Conservatives in the House to shoot themselves in their collective foot over the debt ceiling controversy, and the Government shut-down. And the "Moderate" Republicans are outraged at being dragged into this situation against their will. Both are now crowing about how the Conservatives will face electoral retribution for their sins, in 2014. But at least the battle lines have been clearly drawn. Everybody will know where their Candidates stand on the foolish issue of ObamaCare, and I guess every other issue will stem largely from that. We will see if the Tea Party Conservatives are run out of town, like the Congressional Wizards are all hoping. Or is this the start of a third-party movement that God has given us to help lead this nation back to a more righteous, and responsible form of government?
Welcome, in the mean time! Have a cup of very bitter Tea, and take a seat while we wait to see how this will all turn out. It promises to be very interesting, one way or the other! And to God be the Glory,amen!!!
We are serving refreshments, though. How do you like your Tea? Sugar? Sorry, our's only comes complete with all the bitterness of the straightest brew. And no milk either. Only those who've been weened are welcome at this affair. We didn't have time to prepare any food either, this party kind of caught us all by surprise, and we really weren't prepared for a big get together. So, I guess we'll just sit around and guzzle Tea until it comes out our eyeballs!
That's right, you guessed it! We're talking about the Great American Tea Party, named for the historical Bostonian revolt against intolerably oppressive Government, which initiated the American Revolution. Back then there were not even a lot of people who even realized how intolerable their Government was, outside of Boston. There was great concern that if Boston's outrage could not be expressed convincingly to the more populous Virginia colonists the whole conflict surrounding the Tea Party Revolt would prove to be futile, and would be quickly stamped out by British troops. ( Which would bring new meaning to the dreaded term of "the Stamp Act".)
But thanks to King George's belligerence, and the flowery prose of Thomas Payne's "Common Cause", coupled with a few fire-brand orations from Patriots such as Patrick Henry, this country's mood slowly began to turn from blind obedience, and cattle-brained acceptance of the status quo, to one of progressive outrage ( enough to feed a Revolution through to it's unlikely victory).
Now we find ourselves in much the same place as our fore-fathers were. Oppressed by an intransigent Legislature, which supports a foolish ideologue of a socialist President, who thinks he is above our Constitutional form of government, and that "majority rules" is the only thing that matters when it comes to the enforcement of Law. And besides, even if we ultimately reject his ideals, he probably figures he'll be out of work in three more years, so all he really wants is to gain international fame and respect, especially among radical Muslim nations so that he will ultimately be "elected" as the one-world Caliphate Leader, who will turn the world into a form of Muslim-dominated Socialism. And there will be no term limit for that job.
The only hope that I can see for a resurgent America is in a third Party revolt, like the Tea Party, but not necessarily that. Any party that can convince enough Americans that the Liberalism of the Democrats is just another form of economic slavery, and that the wishy-washy "Moderate" Republicans have nothing better to offer, as long as we keep propping up Wall Street, and the Banking industry with hyperinflationary cash. Someone has got to tell the people the truth, even though it's obvious that we really don't want to hear it. And the Tea Party of recent has done the best job of trying to do that lately.
Now, the Liberals are gleefully praising themselves for forcing the Conservatives in the House to shoot themselves in their collective foot over the debt ceiling controversy, and the Government shut-down. And the "Moderate" Republicans are outraged at being dragged into this situation against their will. Both are now crowing about how the Conservatives will face electoral retribution for their sins, in 2014. But at least the battle lines have been clearly drawn. Everybody will know where their Candidates stand on the foolish issue of ObamaCare, and I guess every other issue will stem largely from that. We will see if the Tea Party Conservatives are run out of town, like the Congressional Wizards are all hoping. Or is this the start of a third-party movement that God has given us to help lead this nation back to a more righteous, and responsible form of government?
Welcome, in the mean time! Have a cup of very bitter Tea, and take a seat while we wait to see how this will all turn out. It promises to be very interesting, one way or the other! And to God be the Glory,amen!!!
Friday, October 18, 2013
Shame America, For Raising The Debt Ceiling
The most condemning statement I can think of to describe our run-away, tax-and-spend Congress ( not even to mention our Socialist Presidency) is to remind America that, "you get what you pay for"! Any System of government that would rather be paying the interest on President Woodrow Wilson's debt for the funding of our World War I war efforts, rather than simply pay off the $35 million debt forever, is lunatic beyond belief, and apparently has been for the past 90-plus years, since it was borrowed. And now these are the same kind of elected numbskulls we have allowed to vote to raise the borrowing capacity of our government beyond its present nearly $17 trillion level. How many of you level-headed parents out there think it's a good idea to punish your shop-till-you-drop teenaged daughters who have just maxed out their credit cards ( which they don't pay for; you do!) by raising their spending capacity to unlimited credit??? Boy!!! That'll sure teach them a lesson, won't it!!!
There is an alternative to raising the debt ceiling that we didn't hear either the President, or any member of the Congress talk about during this entire Budget/Debt Ceiling fiasco. It's called, "pay off your debts, you idiots!". Wow, what an amazing concept! Unfortunately, we are faced with the necessity of not only paying off our debts, but the legal indebtedness of our fathers' governmental borrowing, and our grandfathers', and at least a couple of "greats" in there as well. Some day, and probably not too distantly in the future, this is going to have to be faced up to, one way or another. Either we must pay off our predominantly international debts, to the tune of around $17 trillion (which is roughly the equivalent to our entire Gross National Product, for one year) or we will have to willingly and permanently default on all our indebtedness, with the equally painful stipulation that all foreign indebtedness to us is permanently forgiven ( which I understand is approximately equal to our own debt).
This does not remotely resemble the Biblical form of international debt Forgiveness that is expounded in Leviticus 25, and which I described in detail in my previous blog which can be "Googled" at almost the same title ( see "The End-Times News Review"), some 5 years ago ( posted as the "Stupid..." posts; as in "It's the economy, stupid", and "Stupid is as stupid does"), but it's as close as we could manage today, under our present form of economic chaos. The only other option available to us is the one our "brilliant" (read: "cowardly", and "Greedy") politicians have chosen for us over the last near century. It's called Hyperinflation, and it is the most painful and socially destructive option of the three. The ultimate conclusion of which always gives a meglo-maniacal tyrant for a ruler, just as Hitler used the German Hyperinflation of the 1920's to rise to power in the most diabolical government history has ever known, to date. I added the last qualifier to this statement because the Bible prophecies a "future" tyrant that will one day make all his evil predecessors look like pansies by comparison to his evil tyranny ( referred to as the Antichrist). The question is: how far in the future is he? He may be waiting in the wings now, looking for his opportunity to take over!
We are trapped in a spiral of financial decline that will eventually leave our nation in a third world condition if we don't slam on the breaks before it's too late. And we know that neither Congress, nor the President has the desire, or courage to stop this economic spiral. Why should they; I suspect that most of these liberal politicians are looking out for themselves by socking away tons of money, perhaps through influence pedaling ( which is equivalent to bribe-taking, in my book), which will give them each enough of a nest-egg to be able to bail out on a "dying America", and emigrate to whatever country will fare the best after the coming international financial collapse! So much for our politicians' patriotic fervor!
So what am I suggesting as a "solution"? There is no good one, just a lesser of the evil choices! Our best choice is the most frightening in the short term: Intentional Default on our debts, and forgiveness of those owed to us ( which will be automatic anyway, as retaliation), and a permanent illegality of international borrowing to service our governmental spending, rather than paying for it all with revenue, no matter how painful in the short-term. This will surely drive us immediately into a Deflationary depression that will probably make the "Great Depression" look like peanuts. But we can survive it, as we did the last one. And afterwards we will be financially stronger than we are now. As far as our international lenders/creditors are concerned we must leave them alone and let the "chips fall where they may", sadly. But the crisis is so severe that we must look to our own house, first. One by-product of this will probably be that the illegal immigration crisis will simply dry up, as things will be worse here for immigrants than in their home countries, as the international community will initially sanction us with boycotts of all trade, to try and force us to repent of our defaulting on their loans. But after a number of years of economic isolation, our economy will rebound enough so that their greedy desperation will bring them crawling back looking for loans from our rebuilt economy to bail out their bereft Socialist economies, with the consequential resumption of international trade relations. And if we remember the Biblical principle of lending to others, but never borrowing from them we will never see a financial crisis of this scale again!
There is an alternative to raising the debt ceiling that we didn't hear either the President, or any member of the Congress talk about during this entire Budget/Debt Ceiling fiasco. It's called, "pay off your debts, you idiots!". Wow, what an amazing concept! Unfortunately, we are faced with the necessity of not only paying off our debts, but the legal indebtedness of our fathers' governmental borrowing, and our grandfathers', and at least a couple of "greats" in there as well. Some day, and probably not too distantly in the future, this is going to have to be faced up to, one way or another. Either we must pay off our predominantly international debts, to the tune of around $17 trillion (which is roughly the equivalent to our entire Gross National Product, for one year) or we will have to willingly and permanently default on all our indebtedness, with the equally painful stipulation that all foreign indebtedness to us is permanently forgiven ( which I understand is approximately equal to our own debt).
This does not remotely resemble the Biblical form of international debt Forgiveness that is expounded in Leviticus 25, and which I described in detail in my previous blog which can be "Googled" at almost the same title ( see "The End-Times News Review"), some 5 years ago ( posted as the "Stupid..." posts; as in "It's the economy, stupid", and "Stupid is as stupid does"), but it's as close as we could manage today, under our present form of economic chaos. The only other option available to us is the one our "brilliant" (read: "cowardly", and "Greedy") politicians have chosen for us over the last near century. It's called Hyperinflation, and it is the most painful and socially destructive option of the three. The ultimate conclusion of which always gives a meglo-maniacal tyrant for a ruler, just as Hitler used the German Hyperinflation of the 1920's to rise to power in the most diabolical government history has ever known, to date. I added the last qualifier to this statement because the Bible prophecies a "future" tyrant that will one day make all his evil predecessors look like pansies by comparison to his evil tyranny ( referred to as the Antichrist). The question is: how far in the future is he? He may be waiting in the wings now, looking for his opportunity to take over!
We are trapped in a spiral of financial decline that will eventually leave our nation in a third world condition if we don't slam on the breaks before it's too late. And we know that neither Congress, nor the President has the desire, or courage to stop this economic spiral. Why should they; I suspect that most of these liberal politicians are looking out for themselves by socking away tons of money, perhaps through influence pedaling ( which is equivalent to bribe-taking, in my book), which will give them each enough of a nest-egg to be able to bail out on a "dying America", and emigrate to whatever country will fare the best after the coming international financial collapse! So much for our politicians' patriotic fervor!
So what am I suggesting as a "solution"? There is no good one, just a lesser of the evil choices! Our best choice is the most frightening in the short term: Intentional Default on our debts, and forgiveness of those owed to us ( which will be automatic anyway, as retaliation), and a permanent illegality of international borrowing to service our governmental spending, rather than paying for it all with revenue, no matter how painful in the short-term. This will surely drive us immediately into a Deflationary depression that will probably make the "Great Depression" look like peanuts. But we can survive it, as we did the last one. And afterwards we will be financially stronger than we are now. As far as our international lenders/creditors are concerned we must leave them alone and let the "chips fall where they may", sadly. But the crisis is so severe that we must look to our own house, first. One by-product of this will probably be that the illegal immigration crisis will simply dry up, as things will be worse here for immigrants than in their home countries, as the international community will initially sanction us with boycotts of all trade, to try and force us to repent of our defaulting on their loans. But after a number of years of economic isolation, our economy will rebound enough so that their greedy desperation will bring them crawling back looking for loans from our rebuilt economy to bail out their bereft Socialist economies, with the consequential resumption of international trade relations. And if we remember the Biblical principle of lending to others, but never borrowing from them we will never see a financial crisis of this scale again!
Saturday, October 5, 2013
Putin To The Rescue!
Christians have long known that the world was in desperate need of a Savior. In fact, the defining moment in a person's life is when he, or she actually becomes a Christian by acknowledging in prayer that they believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and the Savior of the world, and they ask Him to come into their heart, forgive them of their sins, and become their personal Savior, and Lord of their life, forever. This decision is then sealed spiritually, by God, in some personal manner that confirms to them that their prayer has been answered, usually in a way that is somewhat different from what others experience, yet confirming their faith in Jesus, personally.
Now it seems that the world no longer needs Jesus, and that they have another "savior" in the person of Russian Premier Vladimier Putin who has personally volunteered his country's scientists, and technicians to dismantle all of the poison gas munitions stored in Syria, in order to prevent further gas attacks against Syria's rebel forces, and any collateral civilian populations. What a relief! Now the world can relax, especially Barak Obama who doesn't have to stammer around any more trying to talk his way out of his previous threat of retaliation, by explaining how "crossing a Red Line" is not really what it seems. And isn't it wonderful of Putin to offer his help, considering that it was Russia's scientists that gave Syria the technology to produce the poison gas in the first place, and that there would most likely be a very incriminating paper trail leading right back to the Russian sources for any other U.N. sponsored technicians to see if they began snooping around the Syrian stockpiles. Now that won't be necessary, the Russians will take care of all that themselves! How sweet!
Of course it might take a while to finish the process, like about as long as it takes for Russia to quietly fly in thousands of military "experts", ranking from Privates to Generals, all armed to the teeth, and staring hungrily at Israel, Syria's neighbor to the south. I'll bet there will still be a massive stockpile of Sarin gas available when Putin decides to stop pretending, and begins his invasion of Israel by sending a massive barrage of the poison gas on them. My what a "savior" we have in Putin! Thank God we have such brilliant, and compassionate world leaders such as himself, and Barak Obama to save us from the folly of Assad's poison gas, and Iran's soon-to-be nuclear arsenal, which they have assured us is, "only need for electrical power", and not for "genocidal power" against Israel.
The world grows palpably safer by the minute, under such wise, and benevolent leadership!
Now it seems that the world no longer needs Jesus, and that they have another "savior" in the person of Russian Premier Vladimier Putin who has personally volunteered his country's scientists, and technicians to dismantle all of the poison gas munitions stored in Syria, in order to prevent further gas attacks against Syria's rebel forces, and any collateral civilian populations. What a relief! Now the world can relax, especially Barak Obama who doesn't have to stammer around any more trying to talk his way out of his previous threat of retaliation, by explaining how "crossing a Red Line" is not really what it seems. And isn't it wonderful of Putin to offer his help, considering that it was Russia's scientists that gave Syria the technology to produce the poison gas in the first place, and that there would most likely be a very incriminating paper trail leading right back to the Russian sources for any other U.N. sponsored technicians to see if they began snooping around the Syrian stockpiles. Now that won't be necessary, the Russians will take care of all that themselves! How sweet!
Of course it might take a while to finish the process, like about as long as it takes for Russia to quietly fly in thousands of military "experts", ranking from Privates to Generals, all armed to the teeth, and staring hungrily at Israel, Syria's neighbor to the south. I'll bet there will still be a massive stockpile of Sarin gas available when Putin decides to stop pretending, and begins his invasion of Israel by sending a massive barrage of the poison gas on them. My what a "savior" we have in Putin! Thank God we have such brilliant, and compassionate world leaders such as himself, and Barak Obama to save us from the folly of Assad's poison gas, and Iran's soon-to-be nuclear arsenal, which they have assured us is, "only need for electrical power", and not for "genocidal power" against Israel.
The world grows palpably safer by the minute, under such wise, and benevolent leadership!
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