My Money has an Identity Crises.

It’s funny to me the amount of money that the government is printing to circulate in the economy today.  From what I am hearing from the media, the value of the dollar today is so low that it almost have the same value as the game Monopoly.  This is really frightening.  If this is true, then the buying power is going to resemble what the biblical scenario that it will take a days wage to buy a loaf of bread.

As a kid growing up, I don’t think I really understood what all that meant.  For all of my life prices have gone up and down in relation to some form of economic force.  It would freeze in Florida and that would affect the price of orange juice.  A cattle problem would affect beef prices.  You get the idea.  Today I think these conditions are a little different.

What we are seeing is that it takes more money today to live than it did years ago.  I was driving home today and saw a local drug store poster advertising milk for $2.45.  I thought to myself, I remember stopping to get milk just a few months ago for $1.99.  How did we get the price of milk to shoot up?  Did some milk cows die?

We all watch in trepidation of the gas prices that seem to change with the wind.  So I guess we will all be watch when we go to the grocery store to pick of a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread and spending $60  to $100 for those two item.  With congress trying to control pricing, wages, and who can sell and who can not, then this picture could not be too far off.

And that’s the way I see it, today.

Uncle Sam seems to be a bit Controling these Days

Does anyone get the idea that the United States is becoming so dependent upon the government for about everything we do that the phrase, “Uncle Sam” is taking on new meaning?  So far the government controls who can get loans or money from the banks, they can mandate what kind of car that you are allowed to drive, and now they are going to rule over the healthcare of every person in the country.  I find this administration very close to the biblical example of when the children of Israel were in Egypt and the scripture says that there became a time when the government couldn’t remember the good that Joseph had done for the country.

It seems to me that the government has forgotten a lot of things.  I get a little concerned every time I hear inferences that if Congress doesn’t do what the Presidents wants that he will subvert the system through an executive order.  It makes me think that dictatorial powers are being inferred and the congress is not necessary.

If all of this is true, we are in a bad place and it isn’t going to get any better.

and that’s the way I see it today

Today’s Students

In my day as a substitute for a Socials Studies class, I had a chance to join into a conversation about today’s students in high school.

Whether it is just this high school or if it’s a trend through the country, students have some interesting attitudes about school and education as a whole.  One of the attitudes is the feeling that these students are owed something for nothing.  They think that if they show up, that alone should get them a diploma.  Even when teachers try to notify parents about student problems, nothing is being done.

Now don’t get me wrong, there are some great students that are totally involved and are a credit to their parents and the teachers that have poured their lives into them.  These student are deserving of every opportunity that can come their way.  So there is a drastic extreme between those that are great student and those who are unwilling students.  I use that term because it reflects that basic attitude of how these student perform.  You can even tell it in the way they dress.

It is something to see, and that’s the way I see it today

Face to Face with the Opposition

Last week the President met with the Republicans for a, first of many, face to face meeting.  I watched and listened to the session with a sense of wonder.  Yes I said wonder.  I wonder if he is listening?  I wonder what if any the Republicans will do because the President is one with a rare talent to say things in such a way as to give you enough truth to make a point but in reality is speaking with a divided heart.

The President slammed the audience with his way of telling them why they were sent to Washington.  But the problem with the entire meeting was that no matter what the Republicans bring to the table, ultimately it will increase an ever increasing deficit and additional budget woes.  In way thoughts, I believe we have already past the point where the physical problems in the economy, leadership, and healthcare will continue to weigh down the already busting at the seams budget.

Beck said the other day that according to him the party in power right now is trying to build something, he didn’t know just what.  I can tell him that what they are doing is to create an appearance of success only to lead us kicking and screaming toward a one world government and a new world economy.  The time is ripe for it and it will happen.  These plans and the direction the country is headed is to prepare us for this take over.

So as I see it, we have been sold a bill of goods, deceived by the slick words, and over ruled by the progressives within the government.

And that’s the way I see it today

My Take on the State of the Union

This will be short and sweet or it may be a bit sour.  Does the President’s speech help me?  Let’s see, my business has all but tanked, I am having to work outside jobs in order to just pay the rent while my business that I have run for some 10 years now it coming to a virtual end.  So will what the President said tonight help me, I think not.  I can’t afford to take bank loans and I can’t keep going into debt.

All in all I think the President missed the mark in my opinion.  Trying to reconnect with a voter base that he has lost because of his move to hard line leftist agenda’s, the President still talks about “clean coal.”  I live too near Kentucky and in Southwest Indiana where too many people make their living from the coal industry.  New’s Flash:  There is no such thing as clean coal.  There is coal with sulfur and coal with less sulfur.  Burning coal is an efficient and natural way to have reasonable energy.  The Government problem is they will tax the producers of coal, tax the energy delivery system that burns that coal , an thus the cost of energy goes up and then we pay more on our utility bills which will put more people out in the proverbial cold.

So let’s take stock, The President still doesn’t get it in my book.  I have gone back to school to get the degree that will hopefully give me a position later on, but all the money is coming from loans that I will have to pay back.  How’s does this help?

And that’s the way I see it today!

The Union Story

I know a lot of people that are members of unions and the thinking about them are both pro and con.  I knew a guy who owned a trucking company.  His nickname was “the foot” because he had a way of sticking his foot in a situation with a union and get them to come to terms.  Don’t know that is all true, but it makes a good story.

I lived near St Louis for a time and work for a factory that was a union shop.  My experience there was very interesting.  I worked around guys who were driving big Caddies and their wife was collecting welfare checks at the same time.  I didn’t know what to think about that for sure.  Yes I had to join the union to work there.  They got my union dues every paycheck which lessened the amount of money I could take home.

As you would know, the union contract was up and there was a strike.  Now all those union dues didn’t guarantee that I would have a job.  There were no benefits paid to me.  The union stuck to their guns and the plant closed and moved somewhere.  When this happens the union wants to blame the company, but when the rubber meets the road, they lost my job.  I didn’t get a letter about anything from the union.  They for sure were happy to take my money, but I was no having to look for another job.  So I don’t have a good opinion when the unions are now negotiating with the government.  Maybe I should say they are in bed with the government.  Yes I will admit they are not so strange bedfellows.  In order to be President, you have to be as crooked as a cork screw.  I think the same with the tactics of the unions across the country.

When the union members are working hard to live and keep a job to support their families, the union bosses are living a double standard.  I don’t see any of them living in a one bedroom apartment.  They have their mansions.  They have their perks.  If we are going to share the wealth, let’s start there.  You don’t want the union to be forced to pay taxes on the insurance plans you have negotiated.  That would take money out of your pockets.  I am really stoked about this.

We have all seen the picket lines and the threats to people who cross them so they can get a paycheck to feed their families.  It takes a really big idiot to be a bully.  So here’s my thought.  Everybody his up the unions to pay their fair share instead of putting so much money in to political races.  I don’t need your hand twisting to back a candidate.  spend the money on the people who are mandated to pay you money out of the check that I need to put gas in my car.

And that’s the way I see it today!

the President Speaks – “the buck stops here”

I guess I should be flattered because the President actually came out and said the very words I wrote in my last piece.  Now I am not thinking he read my blog and agreed with me, but he did agree with the facts.  He’s in charge.  The first person that is responsible for the breakdown of all of this is himself.

Now I have no idea of what the results from today’s announcement will be.  But I thought it was interesting that he made the exact statement that I said he should make.  I am glad he did.

The Washington Dog and Pony Show

The blame game needs to stop and our President needs to say, the buck stops here for the inept way that the government handled the plain to see terrorist attack that should of, would of, could of happened.   If the President doesn’t realize that he alone bears the responsibility because he put people in to positions of authority that followed his lead and views, then why should we as the unprotected people have expected any thing less.

Looking at the entities that may have left the barn door open for this known terrorist to nearly kill a few hundred people that were unsuspecting how close they came to be a statistic, I would have thought that the flying public would have been constantly reassured that all was safe to fly since the people that were to insure our security was on the job.  Now every time someone boards a plane the are going to be met with suspicious eyes.  To me, this would not be a time to try to get the horse back in the barn after he’s been let out.  If we know that these terrorists have one goal in mind and if we know every time this happens that we are losing more of our individual rights, then we need to step back and take a hard look at those who are leading us down this prim rose path.

Let’s face it, the President hasn’t given us a lot of hope in our own security.  Just look at what is going to transpire in New York.  These infidels are getting their stage passes to appear on national TV espousing their doctrine of Jehad and hate and putting the US government on trial for treating terrorists as terrorists.  Excuse me, if I know someone is going to come after me, then I am going to do all thing necessary to protect myself and anyone else around me.

Give me a break Mr. President.  You started this mess.  It’s now time to face facts.  Facing death at the hands of a suicide bomber who think they are going to go to their eternal home and get 72 virgins for their act of terrorism, is not my idea of how I want to enter my eternal home.  I have heard the President say that these things are unacceptable, but what is it that is exactly what you won’t accept?  Any other President would have had their feet held to the proverbial fire.  It’s the same old dog and pony show that we have seen before.  Now it just has new players.

And that’s the way I see it today!

Where’s the Cutoff Point

What is the definition of rich?  What is the definition of poor?  To some being rich is having more money than you know what to do with.  To some being poor means you do not have anything of worldly possessions.  Between these two extremes someone in Washington is making that decision to declare who is rich and who is poor.  Since the government is on a collision course to take from the rich and give to the poor, then they have to make a decision as to who is whom.

Let’s float this idea.  I have a roof over my head.  I have food to eat.  I have clothes to wear.  Does that make me rich.  I would say to some in the 3rd world countries who make a minuscule amount in comparison, I would be rich.  The problem is we are not judging ourselves against the population of the world.  We have always maintained that we are judging who is rich by those in the United States.  Comparatively, unless you are classified as homeless, and you have someplace to lay your head at night.  If you have meals prepared for you and you were able to sit down and enjoy that meal, and if you have clothes on your back, you would be considered well off.  To some that terms means rich in this worlds goods.

My question today is where is the line that would determine your status on the wealth-o-meter.  The president said as he campaigned that those making under $250,000 would not see their taxes raised 1 red cent.  I think we are all smart enough to see through that line.  The new taxes that are coming with healthcare, energy, and basic necessities are going to affect everyone whether you have money in the bank or not.  I am concerned that those of us that make even less than $25,000 are going to get hit the worse.  Just where is the new poverty line going to be?

During the month of December I had my worse month in income in which to pay the bills I normally have to pay during this month.  Normally I would have had some laid back, but that was not the case this year.  This was mostly in part to the amounts of money I allocated to give to those who were in greater need than myself.  I know that I was not wise in my planning, but I also know that the commitments I made were just as valid as every bill that crosses my desk.  Now that puts me at the mercy of the rest of my creditors.

Somehow it will all work itself out.  The bump in the road is just that a bump in the road.  I just want to know which side of the line I am on in this madness to redistribute the wealth and if I am going to lose any more the available funds or the necessities of this life so that it can be given away by the government?  It’s an interesting question and deserving of a qualified answer.

And that’s the way I see it today!

I believe therefore I am

Belief systems during the time that Christ was on the earth in human form and now have some generalizations and comparabilities to circumstances of today. While we don’t have a king to rule over us, yet we do have leaders that are acting like that. The Christ we serve is deserving of all praise and honor, but following his words in the holy scriptures is making others feel trapped or indignant to exalting him to the level that makes not serving him an intolerant bias that those who are not christian condemned to an eternal hell.  My thinking is that this is only a consequences of a persons action and decisions that they have the right to make or not.  Those that would choose to believe there is no such condemnation except from those who do not want to believe.

They call that intolerant? What about a belief that says if you are not one of us or compliant to our beliefs then you are worthy of death? Here’s the proof: “Fight and kill the disbelievers wherever you find them, take them captive, harass them, lie in wait and ambush them using every stratagem of war.” The Qur’an (9:5), Islam’s holy book.
And we are called intolerant?  How long will it be before anyone who is not a follower of Islam is run down and harassed or taken captive and are killed for beliefs or lack of a belief.  Oh wait, that is happening today and if you follow the news, the terrorist of Islam even kill their own for the lack of their extremism.  So from that, I find that Islam and Christianity has  no common grounds that would be able to remedy the problem and stop the predicted deliberate actions of Islam.

Our President said in a speech,

“I, like any head of state, reserve the right to act unilaterally if necessary to defend my nation.” U.S. President Barack Obama, December 10, 2009

How do you defend our country from these that want to search us out and do us harm, when your concentration is on accusing those who follow the Bible of hate speech.  I think there is a critical flaw in the thinking of man.  What assurances do those who live lifestyles diametrically opposed to those of Islam have for their noncompliance ?  And you want to condemn Christians?  That’s the easy way out.  You know that Christians are supposed to turn the other cheek.  So you exploit this and make Christians go underground and scatter as they did in the Act of the Apostles.  It’s no different from those countries who have outlawed Christian proselytizing today in lue of having to deal with the truths that Christianity brings.

What is the payoff?  Just what are we supposed to get from those that want to hurt Christians and those who want to imprison them?  This gives those who believe a notice to get ready for the coming persecution that the Bible say will come to those who will not give up their faith for any reason.  These are they that have come through great tribulation and have washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb.

“One of the elders asked me, “Who are these people dressed in white robes, and where do they come from?” “I don’t know, sir. You do,” I answered. He said to me, “These are the people who have come safely through the terrible persecution. They have washed their robes and made them white with the blood of the Lamb. That is why they stand before God’s throne and serve him day and night in his temple. He who sits on the throne will protect them with his presence. Never again will they hunger or thirst; neither sun nor any scorching heat will burn them, because the Lamb, who is in the center of the throne, will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of life-giving water. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”
(Rev 7:13-17 GNB)

And that’s the way I see it today!