God Bless America

I am afraid for America. I am very disturbed by this "stimulus" package. Where has basic common sense gone? Can they not look a the package Bush passed and see that throwing money at the problem isn't fixing it? All it seems to be doing is raising the debt level and increasing many Americans dependence on government. - aka feelings of entitlement. I can just FEEL the tax burden looming over my head and the heads of my poor children. How can these politicians even say with a straight face that this package is aimed to give a quick jolt to America's Economy??? a full 60% of the TRILLION dollars won't even be spent during the next four years. Tell me, exactly what is QUICK about that?

A chunk of the 10-o-clock news tonight was about how congress has been meeting and debating about what to do about another "crisis." I'm referring to the switch to digital TV, and that the government ran out of money for converter boxes so millions of people are going to be without TV in 3 weeks. HEAVEN FORBID! What will the world come to??? How will people ever survive? I'm just waiting to find a line item in the stimulus package that gives $2000 for a new digital big screen TV for everyone who doesn't have a box, or can't/won't pay for cable,

I was sitting here tonight ready to go to bed, (which is where I should be instead of blogging, but I'm really quite worked up about this...) when onto the PBS channel came the show Hubner vs Hitler. I am alarmed by the similarities I see. You know what they say - those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

In Germany, people were down and discouraged, and as a result they followed, rather blindly, as charismatic leader who promised them the world and gave them hope. In this documentary that is playing behind me, they mentioned that in the beginning, the "working class" put up some resistance, but then as they were were given jobs, they just sort of grew silent as they sort of gave up resisting and decided that at least now they had jobs... The commentator says, "they were selling their soul to the devil, but didn't know it, didn't know what the cost would be."

They of course had to limit information. They were only allowed to listen to the "people's radio," which consisted of 3 stations, all German, all government controlled. It meant severe punishment, even death, to listen to other (BBC) stations. I thought immediately of Obama's recent comments to the congressional republicans when he said, "You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done." (so much for working in a bi-partisan, unity building manner, eh?) Since when does being the President give you the right to tell people what/who they can and cannot listen to? Since when do we not have the right and the responsibility to listen to a variety of points of view, do our own thinking and reasoning, and then determine our OWN opinion and perspective!

I am NOT comfortable with the direction Obama is leading, and it's only been a week. I pray for America, however I fear that my prayers must go unanswered because of the "wickedness" of the people of this land. The Book of Mormon tells us clearly that this land is a land of promise only as long as we worship God and keep his commandments.

No, the world will not end tomorrow. There are still many good, God-fearing, people of faith in America. We are however, becoming more and more of a minority. If not in numbers, than in voice. What is the answer? I don't know. Lots of prayer, faith, hope, and preparation.

Enough of my tirade. I need to chill out and go to bed! Good night