And It Came To Pass

And it came to pass on a delightfully bright and sunny spring day President Obama decided to get into the auto making business.  I am so glad this happened after he appeared on Jay Leno - at least that helped prepare us for the hilarity of his comedic role as the leader of the ever weakening country he has been chosen to lead.

Does he really think he has the answers for fiscal responsibility in the private sector of business when he can't keep his own political house in order?  I have never seen the government get involved in anything and improve it.  Once the government's hands are pulling the reins ruin and disaster soon follow.  

I am most agitated about the fact that ordinary citizens have no recourse.  We are supposed to smile and take it on the chin (or worse).  GM and Chrysler have both taken billions of our taxpayer dollars.  Their appetite for this money is insatiable.  But FORD hasn't taken a dime.  How is it possible one of the big three is remaining solvent while the other two are bankrupt?  

I have devised my own strategy for dealing with this problem.  If enough Americans would do this I believe it would make a difference.  I have decided not to do business with any corporation which has taken bail out money.  I will bank at a localized bank not a international one.  I will buy my next vehicle from Ford.  I will do everything I can to make sure I am supporting United States businesses.  Go ahead and scream about protectionism.  I don't really care.  There comes a time when we need to get our own house in order.  We don't need to spread our wealth to other parts of the world when our own citizens are begging for jobs.  Its time to stand up and support our own.  Its also time to send a clear message to the professional politicians that we will no longer put up with their double speak, lies and dishonesty.  Its make or break time for the United States.  I choose to put my energy toward the make side of the ledger.  I hope you will too.  

United States Depends on...

Talk Radio reports "Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) held a photo opportunity today with Congressman Bart Gordon (D-Tenn.), Chairman of the House Science and Technology Committee and Dan Mote, President of Maryland University.

Speaker Pelosi said that funding from the recovery package to assist science and innovation was “already making a difference.” She said, “It’s a recognition that our country depends on education, on science and technology, and our recovery package reflects that.”

Congressman Gordon said, “There approximately six and half billion people in the world and of those who are working about half of those make less than $2 a day.” He hoped that money invested into science and research would ensure that future generations have a better standard of living."

This is precisely what is wrong with the current leanings of the leadership in the United States. Speaker Pelosi's insistence "that our country depends on education, on siciene nad technology..." is true but is also dangerous.  I have a penny in my hand.  It may be worth more melted down than it is as currency right now.  The overarching message on the penny is not about science or education or technology.  It isn't about the greatness of Abrahm Lincoln whose likeness graces the front of this coin.  The overarching message at the top of the coin is "In God We Trust."  While Speaker Pelosi rattles the empty cans of trust and dependence on education and science she is blatantly silent about "Trust In God."  

I am not saying or even implying education, science and technology are not important - they are. But overemphasizing their importance and ignoring the motto of the country is, in my mind, very close to treason.  Of course I have been known to overstate the obvious.  Let me make a stab at understating it.  Speaker Pelosi is leading by example.  The question is where is she taking us.  If the destination is a return to the original ideas which led us down the road to becoming the greatest nation in the world I will willingly and gladly follow.  But if the path leads closer to socialism or communism; if the road leads into the wilderness of servitude and want I will continue to write and live in opposition.

By the way Congressman Gordan, deporting our manufacturing jobs to third world countries has made us poorer and other nations richer.  If this hasn't helped stem the tide of poverty in some areas of the world why did we adopt the plan?  Other nations will not be helped by spreading the wealth.  Our financial base is like water in a glass.  Spill the water on the counter and it loses its depth.  Socialism has already proven non-effective.  Why are you pointing us in the direction of failure?

Socialist Leanings Continue

President Obama recently appointed the Governor of Kansas, Kathleen Sebelius, as the Director of Health and Human Services.  Kathleen is a woman whose leanings toward Socialism are as blatant as those of the President.  She attempted to force legislation which would have created mandatory public funded health care in Kansas.  Fortunately the State Legislature was a little more sensible. So, instead of diversity in the President's cabinet we are getting more of the same. And it bothers me.  It bothers me because the guidebook of my life, the Bible, advises care in the selection of friends and counselors.  All of us tend to become like those with whom we associate. In my opinion the United States has been placed on a slippery slope sliding toward disaster.  The United States, instead of being a power to be reckoned with, is becoming a power to be ignored.  Like a school bully we can threaten a severe beating based on past victories but we really don't have the power (or is it "the will") to follow through.  We are no longer a leader we have become a follower - a follower of failed Soviet bloc and European attempts to govern with mandatory sharing of reduced resources.  

Such thoughts were whirring through my mind today when I began reading the Bible.  I have been wondering if there is any answer.  I asked at one point in my musings "is God delivering us into captivity or is Satan destroying us?"  If I could make a choice between the two I would choose the first.  However, when I began reading today I read something which gave me hope and I just had to share it.

"Keep me safe, O God, for in you I take refuge.  I said to the Lord, 'You are my Lord; apart from You I have no good thing.'" And God said to me, "focus on who I am."  It is easy for me to forget the greatness and almighty, everlasting power of God when I see the direction we are being forced to take because of the decisions of politicians who have little love for this country.  "Focus on who God is."  When I do focus on Him the enormity of the problems desolve.  

"Surely I have a delightful inheritance."  Focus on a future the present cannot destroy.  Do what you can to right the wrongs and direct others to the right path - but remember you have to leave this place to reach the next.  So don't lose sleep over unrighteous people who make unrighteous decisions which lead people down an unrighteous road.  You should expect nothing else from them.  "Surely I have a delightful inheritance."

"I will praise the Lord who counsels me..."  I don't take my orders from politicians.  They may succeed in pushing the country in the wrong direction but they will not push me in that direction as long as I allow the Lord to counsel me.  Focus on the directions of the Lord.  "I have set the Lord always before me.  Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.  Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest secure..."  Wow!  Thank you Father! Just what I need when I need it - that's what He continues to supply.  Live what you know is right.  Depend on the direction the Lord provides.  Trust in the care of the Father.  Now ask yourself - what do I have to fear?