It Can't Hug You - Why Government Isn't The Answer

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Aug 192010

Caring for the poor, helping the needy, lifting up the oppressed -The church is supposed to do it, but it doesn’t.  Ok.  But what is it in many of us that moves from the local church all the way to the federal government?  Why do we skip the in between?  There are so many other options besides the impersonal bureaucracy of Washington, DC politics.

If I run out of eggs and I’m making a cake, I go to my neighbor for help, because that’s the closest helper to me.  They know me.  They know I like to make cakes and they like to eat my cakes.  They’d be more than willing to give me an egg, because we have a relationship and I just loaned them my weedeater a week ago.  We have a relationship.  I don’t call my mayor, my county commissioner, or the President.  What are the chances I would get an egg if I did that?  In fact, if I did end up getting an egg, by the time I got it it’d be sour.  But that’s exactly how we treat so many needs in our local communities.  We immediately want our federal government to fix it.

First of all, I would not be so quick to just say the church doesn’t do it.  Why don’t we make the church do it?  Let’s set high expectations for our local church to do what it is supposed to do.  But, for the sake of argument and for those who are not part of a faith community let’s just focus on the previous question.  Why do we our brains automatically zoom to the federal government to solve our problems?

It’s gotten so bad that Barack Obama actually made one of his campaign slogan’s “HOPE”, as if the federal government – politicians thousands of miles away from most of us – are worthy of our hope.  That’s just crazy.  But the American people bought that crap hook, line, & sinker.  (Not that wanting to have something to hope in is a bad thing.  But, hope is only good if it’s hope in Jesus Christ.) Continue reading »

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Seriously? WHO Is Responsible?

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Aug 162010

The first paragraph in this Orlando Sentinel article reads…

Thousands of Florida children may start the school year without the eye exams and glasses they need to succeed in the classroom because the state Department of Health has not released funds that lawmakers budgeted for vision screenings.

While I don’t disagree that the money should go where it was designated to go, I’d like to just point out that the “because” is followed by a ridiculously ignorant statement; that the state is somehow responsible for kids seeing.

How on earth did we get to the point where the state became responsible for kids?  Kids have parents and those parents are responsible for everything – food, clothing, shelter, medical care, education, etc.  Of course some people genuinely need help, but they are still responsible to get that help.  As parents we can’t just not be responsible.

And I know there are a small percentage of kids who do not have parents, but the church is responsible for providing for them.  I’m well aware that doesn’t happen as it should, but that doesn’t mean that it isn’t responsible to do so.  Should the state then try to help?  Maybe, but that doesn’t mean it’s the state’s responsibility.

Responsibility is a not something to be distributed.  It is something to be owned.  It’s something society should demand people live up to, and if we don’t maintain our expectations that those who are truly responsible actually live up to their responsibilities, we will become a totalitarian state.  That’s the logical outcome of a population that gets in the habit of assuming the government is responsible for everything.  We start looking to the government to solve all our problems and vote accordingly.

Again, I have no problem with law makers giving money to a charity to do vision screenings.  They answer to the voters for how they spend our tax dollars.  But, come on…the state is not really responsible for our kids sight, is it?

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Dems Vote Against Families & Businesses, All Of Us Really

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Aug 062010

Tax cuts stimulate the economy.  That’s a fact.  We need to cut taxes in order to get the ball rolling toward a true recovery and yet Democrats have voted to allow the Bush tax cuts to expire, which is really a tax increase.

Oh, they say it’s not an increase, because they’re politicians, but it IS an increase.  Think about this…If a company decides to offer their hamburgers at a reduced price and they do it for several years, that’s the new price.  If they decide to return to the previous price, they’re increasing the price of their burgers.  That’s common sense and most of America gets it.

By defeating DeMint’s amendments today, Democrats approved tax increases on all marginal tax brackets that will rise significantly on individuals, families, and small business to their pre-2001 levels, which were five tax rates of 15%, 28%, 31%, 36%, and 39.6%. According to analysis by the Wall Street Journal, an individual in South Carolina making $40,000 next year will pay about $400 more in federal income taxes. A South Carolina married couple earning a combined $80,000 will see their federal income tax rise by nearly $2,200. A married couple earning $160,000 next year could pay $5,500 more to Washington.

And don’t even get me started on the stupidity of the married couple being penalized for being married.

There’s only one explanation for Democrats feeling it’s more important for the government to raise money immediately (we all know that with tax cuts the long-term effects benefit the government too).  They believe in government more than they believe in me & you and families & small businesses across this country.  Plain & simple.  Government is more important to them.

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