What has become of this once unrivaled nation we call America? I'm as patriotic as anyone, but I don't like what I see going on around me. We've become a nation that caters to our enemies in the Middle East, while forsaking our own homeless and poor here. Those who don't want to work don't have to. They can sit home while those of us who still work pay for them to sit home. If you genuinely need help, in most instances, you can't get it.
We are training soldiers of Middle Eastern countries who have for generations hated us and Israel. Many have forgotten that Osama bin Laden was one of those young soldiers that many years ago trained at the hands of the the American military, only to use our own training against us on September 11, 2001. Now, we are training a whole new generation that can just as easily turn on us down the road.
Our veterans are not accorded the respect they deserve. Many of them struggle to live on welfare with little help from the nation they protected and sacrificed for. They deserve better, America.
Congress won't let us drill for oil on our own soil. Instead, we buy oil from overseas, supporting countries who shake our hands but stab us in the back by funneling oil revenue into the hands of terrorists.
The liberal Congress we unfortunately elected believes they know better than we do what is best for our families. The great Ronald Reagan believed that the money we earned is ours to allocate and spend as we see fit. Our current president believes that he and Congress should tell us how to spend our money.
Thomas Jefferson warned that a government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have, and in this era, that's more truthful than ever. Our government is slowly taking us into the realms of socialism and communism, and the sad part is, the majority of our citizes are letting them do it.
When are we going to say enough is enough? When are we going to take a stand for Biblical, honest, Christian values and shove these godless, atheistic, false prophets out of office?
George Washington said America has but one King. His name is Jesus Christ. It's the job of the president to watch over the land until He gets back. With that being said, our current president is doing one sorry job of watching over things until our Lord and Savior gets back. May God have mercy on us.
Monday, August 22, 2011
Congress got it wrong...again!
The President and most of Congress got it all wrong again. They just don't understand it. If I go to my bank and tell them I can't pay my loan, they tell me tough luck. If the government says it can't pay its debt, we're supposed to say, "Hey, come over here, my wallet is your wallet."
Rather than make meaningful spending cuts, and trying to toughen immigration laws, they instead cobbled together a meaningless piece of legislative propaganda that only postpones the inevitable, which is actually dealing with the debt crisis.
Here are some points Congress apparently missed:
A. We have 12.5 million, give or take a few thousand, illegal immigrants in this country who are able to receive food stamps, medical care, and other benefits without actually paying for them, like actual Americans do. They pay no taxes, except sales tax when they buy something. Most of them work for cash, pay with cash, and no one can trace the money.
The President and liberal leaders say legalize them! They'll help us with the economy! News flash: that's just plain wrong-headed thinking. They are here working under the table so they don't have to pay taxes! Do you think they will just come out of the woodwork and start volunteering to work jobs where they have to give up some of that money in taxes?
B. Money going overseas. If Congress would stop borrowing from our enemy, China, just to send that money to other countries as annual foreign aid, it would help balance our budget. We are not obligated to these other countries! We should have never gotten in bed with China, but our government has borrowed us into financial slavery to a Communist nation! Now, whenever China feels we've lost our status in the world, all they have to do is pull their money out of our economy and we sink. Try explaining that to the liberals in Washington, who will borrow yet more money from China before the year is over.
C. Stop taxing American companies so much. One of the reasons our American companies leave for overseas are the high taxes here, and our government wants to tax them more. Now, I'm not defending companies going overseas and abandoning the American worker, but at the same time, no one seems to be blaming the government for the high taxes we put on these companies.
D. Stop meaningless government studies. The federal government recently spent more than $1 million on a study about the health of homosexual men with active sex lives. This isn't the only frivolous use of our tax dollars.
E. Drill for our own oil. It's less expensive to drill at home than pay the high prices OPEC demands. Millions of dollars in tax revenues are being flushed down a Middle East toilet as we continue to buy oil from countries who hate us. The oil under our own feet can bring millions in tax dollars, then provide jobs, which brings millions more in tax dollars. Then, those dollars we are spending overseas on oil will be spent here, and it's a double shot of financial profit right here at home.
Sadly, though, the President and Congress could care less whether the little blue collar worker in Tennessee or Alabama is having their own debt crisis, or health crisis, or any other type of crisis. As long as they have the money to spend, spend, spend, we have to keep coming up the money to pay, pay, pay. Unfortunately, they're all deaf, and we are the only ones who can hear the piper playing. He's getting louder, and louder, and louder....
Rather than make meaningful spending cuts, and trying to toughen immigration laws, they instead cobbled together a meaningless piece of legislative propaganda that only postpones the inevitable, which is actually dealing with the debt crisis.
Here are some points Congress apparently missed:
A. We have 12.5 million, give or take a few thousand, illegal immigrants in this country who are able to receive food stamps, medical care, and other benefits without actually paying for them, like actual Americans do. They pay no taxes, except sales tax when they buy something. Most of them work for cash, pay with cash, and no one can trace the money.
The President and liberal leaders say legalize them! They'll help us with the economy! News flash: that's just plain wrong-headed thinking. They are here working under the table so they don't have to pay taxes! Do you think they will just come out of the woodwork and start volunteering to work jobs where they have to give up some of that money in taxes?
B. Money going overseas. If Congress would stop borrowing from our enemy, China, just to send that money to other countries as annual foreign aid, it would help balance our budget. We are not obligated to these other countries! We should have never gotten in bed with China, but our government has borrowed us into financial slavery to a Communist nation! Now, whenever China feels we've lost our status in the world, all they have to do is pull their money out of our economy and we sink. Try explaining that to the liberals in Washington, who will borrow yet more money from China before the year is over.
C. Stop taxing American companies so much. One of the reasons our American companies leave for overseas are the high taxes here, and our government wants to tax them more. Now, I'm not defending companies going overseas and abandoning the American worker, but at the same time, no one seems to be blaming the government for the high taxes we put on these companies.
D. Stop meaningless government studies. The federal government recently spent more than $1 million on a study about the health of homosexual men with active sex lives. This isn't the only frivolous use of our tax dollars.
E. Drill for our own oil. It's less expensive to drill at home than pay the high prices OPEC demands. Millions of dollars in tax revenues are being flushed down a Middle East toilet as we continue to buy oil from countries who hate us. The oil under our own feet can bring millions in tax dollars, then provide jobs, which brings millions more in tax dollars. Then, those dollars we are spending overseas on oil will be spent here, and it's a double shot of financial profit right here at home.
Sadly, though, the President and Congress could care less whether the little blue collar worker in Tennessee or Alabama is having their own debt crisis, or health crisis, or any other type of crisis. As long as they have the money to spend, spend, spend, we have to keep coming up the money to pay, pay, pay. Unfortunately, they're all deaf, and we are the only ones who can hear the piper playing. He's getting louder, and louder, and louder....
Friday, April 29, 2011
Abortion and adoption
We have reached a sad state in our nation when it costs more to save a human life than it does to kill it.
I have been researching adoption costs and fees, and the amount it takes to adopt a child from right here in America is staggering. Every adoption agency I have checked with says the fee is as little as $5,000 up to as much as $14,000, depending on the child's age, the particular agency, the financial needs of the birth mother, etc.
There are grants and aid that can be applied for, but the amount out-of-pocket can still be more than most everyday, working-class families can afford.
Sadly, though, organizations such as Planned Parenthood will gladly abort a child for free, without cost to the parent. They continue to find unique ways to advertise their services to kill our unborn children, and our federal government funds their efforts.
There are many families in this nation unable to have children of their own, and they would love to adopt an unwanted child and give it the love and attention it deserves. But, with those expensive costs associated with adoption, many families are left unable to foot the bill to adopt.
Maybe it's time to start charging all of these women who think they have a right to abort a defenseless, unborn child some of the same fees it takes to adopt a living one, and see if they might reconsider placing a child for adoption, rather than murdering it in cold blood.
Until we place more value on a human life than we do on unborn children in this country, our murder rate will continue to escalate.
I have been researching adoption costs and fees, and the amount it takes to adopt a child from right here in America is staggering. Every adoption agency I have checked with says the fee is as little as $5,000 up to as much as $14,000, depending on the child's age, the particular agency, the financial needs of the birth mother, etc.
There are grants and aid that can be applied for, but the amount out-of-pocket can still be more than most everyday, working-class families can afford.
Sadly, though, organizations such as Planned Parenthood will gladly abort a child for free, without cost to the parent. They continue to find unique ways to advertise their services to kill our unborn children, and our federal government funds their efforts.
There are many families in this nation unable to have children of their own, and they would love to adopt an unwanted child and give it the love and attention it deserves. But, with those expensive costs associated with adoption, many families are left unable to foot the bill to adopt.
Maybe it's time to start charging all of these women who think they have a right to abort a defenseless, unborn child some of the same fees it takes to adopt a living one, and see if they might reconsider placing a child for adoption, rather than murdering it in cold blood.
Until we place more value on a human life than we do on unborn children in this country, our murder rate will continue to escalate.
More signs we're in trouble
Rising gas prices. More states signing on to allow gay marriages. A plan by the federal government to slip abortions in the back door and call it reproductive care. More juveniles in the court system. Pregnancy among middle school students. Severe cuts to Medicare. Rising food prices. The destruction of farm land for industry, making land intended for food production into a building to produce machines. Persecution rising against Christians in this nation.
What is all this pointing to?
Folks, those who read their Bibles and then compare it to world events and situations can see we are fast approaching the time of tribulation and the return of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Many call it pessimism, but the truth is, we are on a downhill slope heading away from God and redemption. The majority of this nation seems hell-bent on self destruction and the removal of God from all aspects of life.
2 Chronicles 7:14 shows us that God is willing to forgive and restore our nation if we let him, but therein lies the problem: we have chosen to ignore the pleadings of God and continue to move further and further away from him. If you will read the first chapter of Romans, it's like reading a description of the modern-day United States. It's a stiff indictment of where we are now versus where we've been.
Sadly, many churches are more worried about political correctness and the offering plate than the truth in God's Word. The Bible is not and never will be politically correct, and guess what, neither is God!
If you will study and preach the Word of God and stop worrying about the offering plate, God will make sure the money is there to take care of the church's needs.
It's time to stop letting the liberals of this country, regardless of political party, push God out of our lives. It's time to put Him back in our daily lives, to respect His word, to learn of His plan for our salvation, and to teach our children the ways of the Lord.
I truly believe, folks, we are past at least one point of no return. Before we pass the absolute final one, rethink your relationship with God and ask Him for the wisdom to turn your life around.
What is all this pointing to?
Folks, those who read their Bibles and then compare it to world events and situations can see we are fast approaching the time of tribulation and the return of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Many call it pessimism, but the truth is, we are on a downhill slope heading away from God and redemption. The majority of this nation seems hell-bent on self destruction and the removal of God from all aspects of life.
2 Chronicles 7:14 shows us that God is willing to forgive and restore our nation if we let him, but therein lies the problem: we have chosen to ignore the pleadings of God and continue to move further and further away from him. If you will read the first chapter of Romans, it's like reading a description of the modern-day United States. It's a stiff indictment of where we are now versus where we've been.
Sadly, many churches are more worried about political correctness and the offering plate than the truth in God's Word. The Bible is not and never will be politically correct, and guess what, neither is God!
If you will study and preach the Word of God and stop worrying about the offering plate, God will make sure the money is there to take care of the church's needs.
It's time to stop letting the liberals of this country, regardless of political party, push God out of our lives. It's time to put Him back in our daily lives, to respect His word, to learn of His plan for our salvation, and to teach our children the ways of the Lord.
I truly believe, folks, we are past at least one point of no return. Before we pass the absolute final one, rethink your relationship with God and ask Him for the wisdom to turn your life around.
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