Last night, my husband read some news before going to bed. There had been loads of facebook stati complaining about military pay, but no links to anything detailing what in the world was going on. (We don't have a television under the assumption that the news is not exactly reliable, most programming obscene, and refuse to watch the commercials.) It turns out the U.S. Government is arguing hardcore about the current budget. With a deficit like ours, one would think that if anyone's salary were to be cut, it would NOT be the military. (Doesn't anyone know that if you make a man desperate to feed his family and give him a gun... oh, wait...we're more civilized than that. We're Americans.)
I am not even going to pretend to know all of the ins and outs of a budget for a country as large as ours or a government with their hands extended into just about everything they could be globally and right up into the bedrooms of its citizens. Honestly, the more I know, I wonder how we can possibly be using the term "capitalism" to describe our culture of socialistic entightlement any longer. And am I ready for what is coming? Absolutely not. I'm sure I'm part of the problem -- every year, all of the taxes my family pays are returned to us because we are too poor to pay them and I am thankful for the return.
The brilliant news is, I am not the only one feeling down on my own "sweet land of liberty" that is now in the bondage of debt. We are becoming the laughing stock of the world... America in comedy... I'm sure this is the most mild that is being said. If we are quietly turning the people of the world into the typical TV personality -- complacent, no character, no patience, no strength -- there will be no reason for Heaven to help us. It would be better for us to fall.
I am not even going to pretend to know all of the ins and outs of a budget for a country as large as ours or a government with their hands extended into just about everything they could be globally and right up into the bedrooms of its citizens. Honestly, the more I know, I wonder how we can possibly be using the term "capitalism" to describe our culture of socialistic entightlement any longer. And am I ready for what is coming? Absolutely not. I'm sure I'm part of the problem -- every year, all of the taxes my family pays are returned to us because we are too poor to pay them and I am thankful for the return.
The brilliant news is, I am not the only one feeling down on my own "sweet land of liberty" that is now in the bondage of debt. We are becoming the laughing stock of the world... America in comedy... I'm sure this is the most mild that is being said. If we are quietly turning the people of the world into the typical TV personality -- complacent, no character, no patience, no strength -- there will be no reason for Heaven to help us. It would be better for us to fall.
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