Americans have a fatal disease that will soon bring an end to our Constitutional Republic. This is no conspiracy theory. Every day, if you are awake, the dead end is clearly visible to all. What is the disease you ask? We are insanely self-involved! We can’t see or care about anything that is beyond our own noses. We live by the motto, “if it’s good for me, nothing else matters”.
So goes
every failed state in history.
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Too many Americans have too much money. The old American dream is dead. The new American dream is that if you have money, it is easy to make more money. There are more and more of the younger generations of Americans that have been boxed out by this new system of wealth generation. The old way says that being smart and working hard, one can rise from poverty to wealth survivability. Home ownership was always the bridge to wealth security. No longer for the kids can’t afford them.
No wonder
socialism seems attractive to the young folk. Socialism, where the government owns everything and makes all the rules, has been a disaster everywhere it has been tried. However, it is our future.
Fix our capitalist America or the kids will create another disaster. For starters, means test Social Security. There is no reason that Americans with million dollar homes should be getting Social Security benefits. Social Security should not be a government run Ponzi scheme for the comfortable.
The greedy will say, "wait one minute, I earned that money". Yah but did you earn the fact that you were born in America and not Bangladesh? The Social Security system was never intended to be about living high on the hog, it was about taking care of our struggling old folk.
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Jesus was not God nor did he ever claim to be God, but what he lived out was all about God. Jesus lived in the God place, the world of eternity in this world of woe. Did he do it perfectly, absolutely not but he was willing to take the tigers of this world by the tail. In so doing, Jesus showed all of us what life is really about. Life is about death and life is about humility. Death for God’s sake and blind humility for the sake of others. We are all adrift in this same boat.
Some things are just not fixable. Try as we might, we all must decide, sooner or later, to deal with life as it is rather than spending our lives bemoaning our difficult circumstances. We all have difficult circumstances; the degree of difficulty is the gamble called life. Life is both a gift and a gamble. You and I did not pick our parents, so what, do we deserve anything else?
Instead, we must grab onto our gifted opportunities. The Grand Fixer awaits. Jesus called him, "PaPa". Travel on my friends.
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Bagdad City is all lit up tonight, the Marines are up to something big. Heavy duty parachute flares at dusk and now it is aglow. Helicopters are keeping watch. It has been over ten years since there was so much activity just beyond Goat Mountain. This doesn’t look to be routine.
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Politics can be good, but politics is not a destination.
Religion can
be good, but religion is not a destination.
Family can
be good, but family is not a destination.
Belonging
can be good, but belonging is not a destination.
The only
destination is God freedom.
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Lobby