and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls, but they said, we will not walk therein. Jer.6:16.
Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc'-ra-cy) - a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of diminishing producers.
QUOTE of the Year:
Gold is the money of kings, silver is the money of gentlemen, barter is the money of peasants - but debt is the money of slaves. Norm Franz, "Money and Wealth in the New Millennium"
"The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender." Pr.22:7.
Debt has never truly been a blessing but a misunderstood and dangerous philosophy.
The present dilemma in the U.S., and the world, is primarily due to the Keynesian theory of economics which is basically, the Central Banks, using debt or credit to bail the country out from under a depressionary threat. That theory originated during the Great Depression and has resulted in TARP, QE1&2 and the previous and present National, State and Private DEBT: which runs into the hundreds of trillions of dollars,
not just the 16 trillion in our Gov. borrowed debt or their "Over Budget Debt".
Credit once meant, to attribute honesty, truth or accomplishment to someone. Today it means "Debt". Credit has morphed into Debt. Maxed out Credit is Debt. The status symbol, Credit Card, has proved to be more a curse than a blessing to most people.
In our country, our Government rewards all non-workers and punishes the workers with higher taxes to pay for it. Work has become the four letter word and Lazy the norm. A handie man came to our home recently, with his huge grown son, and casually said, "He's Lazy" as if that was his name. The son, as if it was a compliment,
agreed.... "Yeah, I hate work". He proved it. He didn't lift a finger and bragged about it. The whole world has turned upside down. Virgin is bad and promiscuous is good.
Work is bad and Leisure is the purpose of life. Holding a job is dumb and living off of others is smart. High moral standards are hypocritical, fanatic, or weird and low moral standards are celebrated by the media, movies and morons. God told Adam and Eve to "dress and keep the garden" and put muscles on them for the purpose. Jesus said, "...Men ought to work..." Lk.13:14.
There are many new words for this new era but some of them are old words corrupted into new meanings. For instance.....
Gay once meant effervescent or happy. Now it supposedly means "Happy Homosexual". Whereas, statistics show guilt, venereal disease, shorter lifespans, and suicide are more common among them.
Women's Lib (liberation) reflects the free, modern, successful, business woman of the world. Whereas, it is a staked chain separating them from a warm, close, mothering relationship with children and the security she needs in a permanent, loving husband.
A New Ride refers to a beautiful, comfortable new car with lots of pride accessories. Whereas, after the first month, it is a stressful, monthly dread of payments, which seem to come around every week and lead to neglect of necessities, a ruined "credit" record, lost education, and the girlfriend as well. Which effects often follow and hinder the person the rest of their lives. I've always told young people, "There are two things you can always do. (1) Buy a car. (2) Get married. But you can't always get an education so you can afford a car and a wife the rest of your life".
Entitlements ... have always meant, "Income deserved by a commission or salaried worker as payment for a job well done or an award for great accomplishment." Whereas, now it means, "Free, welfare, tax money given to non-payers of taxes who claim an inability to work, including overweight, or an unwillingness to work, drug addiction, alcoholism or some other such reason". Exactly how is that "entitled"?
Earned Income Tax Credit reflects a tax credit toward reducing the taxes of a hard working good citizen who pays taxes. However, it now means it is taxes duly paid by those hard working tax payers, to the IRS, out of their salaries, so the people who pay no taxes may receive that money because they payed no taxes. Yes, it is called an "Earned Income Tax Credit", another bureaucratic misnomer to make it digestible to the tax payers and not an embarrissment to the recipients.
New Morality sounds like a new improved Morality. It actually means the dumping of traditional and Scriptural Moral Standards as unreasonable and unnecessarily restrictive for something more acceptable.... more comfortable. It is actually the old Immorality dressed up with a toupee, sandals and a nose job.
"And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer or the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in." Isa.58:12.
This is the challenge of Isaiah, the calling of Saints. RB
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