TAKE A PEEK INTO THE FUTURE - Just A Minute Radio for Monday 03-02-09

Howdy on an icy or slushy day…

 

And we thought we’d get through the winter without snow… Well we almost made it. Hope your feet are still dry. Maybe we’re on the way to refilling the lakes and reservoirs. But one thing *nobody knows* just what we are headed for is the scope of the problems this massive borrowing in order to ‘spend our way out of depression’ is going to entail.

 

It only takes a little browsing amongst some international papers or magazines to hear the plaintive wails from Europe and Asia about *their* financial and economic problems – plus their caterwauling that America is the villain that has brought the world to this precipitous place. One thing of which I’m sure…there’s enough blame to go ‘round even to the fact that the various electorates of representative governments have to be reminded from time to time that the populace eventually gets the kind of government it deserves because of its preferences, inattention, or addiction to wanting too much indulgence without paying the price.

 

Americans for sure can’t run everybody’s country – but when it comes to electing our proper representation – we have no one to blame but ourselves for the failures of our elected officials. If we will seek higher character standards for ourselves – and *also* require them of those who wish to represent us and our values we will have better government. If, on the other hand we are lax or too busy to bother… that will show up in the kind of government we end up *deserving.*  If you’d like a short course with many examples – take up your Bible and the book of Judges. If you were to graph Israel’s situation it would look like a run-away roller coaster. That’s not because God didn’t love them or take care of them – to the contrary:

 

And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul. (PS 106:15 )

 

            Sometimes we want what *we* want when we want it… and it’s not the best for us. God wants to bless us – but HE also wants to give us what HE knows is best and best for us. That’s not greed.  And greed, selfishness, hoggin’ th’ trough – is what got America into the mess we’re in today. The sooner we realize it – the sooner we can find our way out of the thicket with God’s blessing.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack

 

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TAKE A PEEK INTO THE FUTURE

Just A Minute – “Just saying it -- doesn’t make it so!” – that phrase has a major objective truth to it.  

The ‘stimulus package’ – recently renamed the “recovery plan” – promises new jobs will soon be ‘created – First promise was for two million … then three point five million and now more than four… but unemployment totals are escalating too.

          This weekend I spent several hours examining Russia’s plight. It’s far worse than ours. Newsweek quotes, Vitaly Polishuk, window-frame maker in Magnitogorsk, a company steel town, who used to take comfort from the sight of the steel mills' smoke-belching chimneys. "We could see our breadwinner breathing," he says but now half the chimneys in town are idle. "When the smoke disappears, fear comes," says Polishuk. Russia has about 1500 monotowns in similar straits. The Kremlin, fears all its troops and ‘recovery plans’ will fall short of controlling angry people when they take to the streets.

          America, is now betting the farm on promises of the Obama Administration. We’d best pray!

<> I’m Jack Buttram   (END)

 

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