Up until of late, former Vice President Gore was the "Sky is falling" Chicken Little award winner. His false global warming assumptions and startling warnings took first place. Most of his damage has been in frightening school children and the emotionally unstable progressive liberals in press, media, and halls of congress. That and his traveling around the world—and from the look of things—consuming far more than his share of our world’s food supply.
We must admit, President George W. Bush’s deficit spending and then his "The Sky is falling. We must do it now." multibillion dollar stimulus and bail out blunder set the atmosphere for President Obama’s "Chicken Little" agenda—and the possible demise of our free and prosperous America we have known.
A definite lack of realism is coming from the Presidential Palace. We are daily subjected to Presidential proclamations, questionable claims, and false assertions, all designed to manufacture a national spirit of fear, envy, and greed. Taking advantage of the atmosphere, vote buying self-serving members of Congress and Senate promise government succor and security for all at the expense of someone else. A scheme many voters—who lack an ability or desire to discern right from wrong—gladly buy into.
The good news is the Sky is not falling, although the unholy trinity of fear, envy, and greed has created a combination of political harlotry, financial chaos, and a national rush into socialism and loss of personal freedom. President Obama seems to believe he has the divine wisdom to manage and control all our financial institutions and any other public or private institution he desires. So far the results show a lack of divine wisdom or any wisdom at all—unless there is a hidden agenda.
Maybe there is no evil intent. Perhaps our divide-the-wealth socialist President and Congress are just a misguided bunch of good-hearted guys and gals willing to borrow and spend whatever it takes to solve all the worlds’ problems. Or is there another agenda? An agenda to use fear, envy, and greed to claim political control over every aspect of our life, including the nationalization of energy, health care, and educational system? An agenda to create a secular and socialistic political system, a system that robs success and rewards failure, a system that seeks to replace any sense of God with moral relativism, a system to replace church and family with the dehumanizing state?
As I said, the Sky is not falling—yet. President Obama’s socialistic restructure based on a promise of financial equality and security for all can turn into far worse than a stagnant welfare state. The following quote used previously is worth contemplating again.
"Whatever moral qualms Germans may have felt toward Nazi policies were swept away by waves of government handouts, tax breaks, and preferential legislation."
_______ Gotz Aly, Hitler’s Beneficiaries
The waves of government handouts, tax breaks, and preferential legislation coming from our Nation’s Capitol are quickly misshaping and undermining middle-Americas’ social attitudes and moral values. In a lust for political power, Washington, D.C. uses the unholy trinity of fear, envy, and greed to sell stimulus packages, bail outs, huge budget deficits, and government control over ever area of life. Is it legal or Constitutional is not a consideration.
Our President’s plan for more debt and more government will not fix economic injustices and establish a perfect society. It will, however, be a giant step toward a totally regulated collectivist and secular welfare state. Human nature acts in one’s own interest not the public or group’s interest. Socialism goes against that nature. Being insensitive to human behavior, all collectivist governments fail.
With every inflated boom comes the bust. Our lack of self discipline, desire for unlimited credit, and a growing belief in wealth without effort and reward without risk created a false boom and sent cities, states, individuals, and Federal government to the edge of bankruptcy. No business is too big to fail. Neither is any nation.
Economic growth comes from savings and investments. Lasting wealth for all comes from hope, ideas, inventions, and hard work—not from inflated dollars, government bailouts, increased debt and higher taxes. Creating true wealth depends on a government that allows the individual to prosper, to freely pursue his or her dream—not a monstrous government based on debt, fear, envy, and greed.
The political problem will take political action. Being a citizen is not a spectator sport. We must become involved and replace the spiritually bankrupts who rule our public and private institutions with men and women of faith.
The Sky is not falling. To keep it from doing so, we must reorder priorities and stop living beyond our means. Not give into the politically manufactured unholy trinity. Reject political pandering with its promise of government succor. The answer is not more government. Wealth does not flow from government. Government devours wealth. The bigger the government the bigger the appetite.
We also have a moral problem. The seeds of secular immorality being planted by press, media, and halls of congress are producing an epidemic crop of self-destructive behavior: envy, greed, drug abuse, abortion, euthanasia, homosexual perversion, heterosexual promiscuity, political deception and fear. It is not good. But the sky has not fallen. It is not too late. America, however, needs moral restoration. Too many Americans’ have forgotten without God nothing is worthwhile.
If we wish to reverse our national rush toward secularism, the Church must be more than a Sunday diversion. Being a man or woman of faith must be more than a spectator sport.
"Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,"
____ Joel 1:14
"We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments."
____ Daniel 9:5
Be Informed Be Involved _________ Michael E. Odell
We must admit, President George W. Bush’s deficit spending and then his "The Sky is falling. We must do it now." multibillion dollar stimulus and bail out blunder set the atmosphere for President Obama’s "Chicken Little" agenda—and the possible demise of our free and prosperous America we have known.
A definite lack of realism is coming from the Presidential Palace. We are daily subjected to Presidential proclamations, questionable claims, and false assertions, all designed to manufacture a national spirit of fear, envy, and greed. Taking advantage of the atmosphere, vote buying self-serving members of Congress and Senate promise government succor and security for all at the expense of someone else. A scheme many voters—who lack an ability or desire to discern right from wrong—gladly buy into.
The good news is the Sky is not falling, although the unholy trinity of fear, envy, and greed has created a combination of political harlotry, financial chaos, and a national rush into socialism and loss of personal freedom. President Obama seems to believe he has the divine wisdom to manage and control all our financial institutions and any other public or private institution he desires. So far the results show a lack of divine wisdom or any wisdom at all—unless there is a hidden agenda.
Maybe there is no evil intent. Perhaps our divide-the-wealth socialist President and Congress are just a misguided bunch of good-hearted guys and gals willing to borrow and spend whatever it takes to solve all the worlds’ problems. Or is there another agenda? An agenda to use fear, envy, and greed to claim political control over every aspect of our life, including the nationalization of energy, health care, and educational system? An agenda to create a secular and socialistic political system, a system that robs success and rewards failure, a system that seeks to replace any sense of God with moral relativism, a system to replace church and family with the dehumanizing state?
As I said, the Sky is not falling—yet. President Obama’s socialistic restructure based on a promise of financial equality and security for all can turn into far worse than a stagnant welfare state. The following quote used previously is worth contemplating again.
"Whatever moral qualms Germans may have felt toward Nazi policies were swept away by waves of government handouts, tax breaks, and preferential legislation."
_______ Gotz Aly, Hitler’s Beneficiaries
The waves of government handouts, tax breaks, and preferential legislation coming from our Nation’s Capitol are quickly misshaping and undermining middle-Americas’ social attitudes and moral values. In a lust for political power, Washington, D.C. uses the unholy trinity of fear, envy, and greed to sell stimulus packages, bail outs, huge budget deficits, and government control over ever area of life. Is it legal or Constitutional is not a consideration.
Our President’s plan for more debt and more government will not fix economic injustices and establish a perfect society. It will, however, be a giant step toward a totally regulated collectivist and secular welfare state. Human nature acts in one’s own interest not the public or group’s interest. Socialism goes against that nature. Being insensitive to human behavior, all collectivist governments fail.
With every inflated boom comes the bust. Our lack of self discipline, desire for unlimited credit, and a growing belief in wealth without effort and reward without risk created a false boom and sent cities, states, individuals, and Federal government to the edge of bankruptcy. No business is too big to fail. Neither is any nation.
Economic growth comes from savings and investments. Lasting wealth for all comes from hope, ideas, inventions, and hard work—not from inflated dollars, government bailouts, increased debt and higher taxes. Creating true wealth depends on a government that allows the individual to prosper, to freely pursue his or her dream—not a monstrous government based on debt, fear, envy, and greed.
The political problem will take political action. Being a citizen is not a spectator sport. We must become involved and replace the spiritually bankrupts who rule our public and private institutions with men and women of faith.
The Sky is not falling. To keep it from doing so, we must reorder priorities and stop living beyond our means. Not give into the politically manufactured unholy trinity. Reject political pandering with its promise of government succor. The answer is not more government. Wealth does not flow from government. Government devours wealth. The bigger the government the bigger the appetite.
We also have a moral problem. The seeds of secular immorality being planted by press, media, and halls of congress are producing an epidemic crop of self-destructive behavior: envy, greed, drug abuse, abortion, euthanasia, homosexual perversion, heterosexual promiscuity, political deception and fear. It is not good. But the sky has not fallen. It is not too late. America, however, needs moral restoration. Too many Americans’ have forgotten without God nothing is worthwhile.
If we wish to reverse our national rush toward secularism, the Church must be more than a Sunday diversion. Being a man or woman of faith must be more than a spectator sport.
"Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,"
____ Joel 1:14
"We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments."
____ Daniel 9:5
Be Informed Be Involved _________ Michael E. Odell
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What action can you take? Go to Blog Archive at upper right, click on May-11-08, "But What Can I Do?" for six proven action steps. Pick yours.
Feb-20-09 Let’s Discriminate
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Dec-08-08 But, Is It Socialism
Nov-12-08 Anguish & Political Messiahs
Oct-16-08 Two Americas
Sept-26-08 Have You Been Bought
Sept-15-08 Abstinence or VD
Aug-18-08 Noble or Secular Life
July-25-08 Monetary Crack Cocaine
July-02-08 Faith Based In Whom
June-13-08 Vote for Change?
May-19-08 Poverty & Envy or Hope & Prosperity
May-11-08 But What Can I Do? Christians Should Not Be In Politics
April-11-08 Sex, Debt, Drugs - America's Epidemic & New York’s Governor
March-28-08 Rare Coin Investments 101 & Choosing A Dealer
March-20-08 Gold Mining Stock Investing 101 - Booms & Busts
March-15-08 Gold Coin Investing 101
March-15-08 Investment 101 - only safe way to double your money
March-03-08 Real Men or Girly Men
Feb-29-08 A Cup of Hemlock for Washington State
Feb-13-08 Death & Suicide Initiative 119 Are Back
Feb-12-08 Thorns or Roses - The Choice Is Ours
Feb-12-08 Recession & Inflation - Government the Problem
Dec-08-07 A Hamburger Today & Pay Tomorrow
