QUITE A GRAB

Our President lives in a world called government.  His paternalistic answer to every question is authoritarian government.

But is our America defined as government?  Or are we defined as we the people?  Whatever happened to free enterprise and our rugged individualism?

America's most pressing issue is our economy.  What solution does his government offer for this problem?  Stimulus spending.  


Here's a little chart from the Heritage Foundation (based on Labor Department statistics) that reveals employment numbers after the recession.  The chart answers the question..."so who got stimulated?"

Well, if you didn't feel effects of the stimulus, that explains why.  We the people did not benefit; the government did.

And here's another question.  What caused our economy to go south?

Google "Obama blames".  Pages of stories will come up...headlines naming those the President holds responsible as he gives a finger wag.  Dubya bears the mother lode of all the scapegoats, followed closely now by the Tea Party.  The Tea Party?  Yes, for real.  Those "extremists" who begged for cuts and a balanced budget...now have earned the label "terrorist" from their "civil" opposition.  Who would think to mention that there were more Dems who voted against the debt legislation than Republicans?  Reason has fled.


Here's something else for the INCREDIBLE file.  Know how many new regulations this administration put in place just in July ALONE?  They proposed 229 new rules and finalized another 379.  That regulatory excess will cost the economy $9.5 billion and hamstring business.  Whose side are these guys on?

You would think the President would be trying new ideas to HELP the economy.  Is spending the only trick in his bag?  In his address Monday, the President suggested putting construction workers back to work.  And who will pay them, Mr. President?  The government?  With what?   

The cry of "yes, we can" has faded into the reality of "no, we cannot".  There is no way to pay for folks from cradle to grave.  The news from  London this week should make us TREMBLE.  Think those rioters are thugs, reacting to a police killing?  It may have started there, but the riots have morphed.  Listen to their comments.                     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhgzF1DFcF8                                                    Some Brits have been taught to expect government subsistence and to hate the rich...and they are furious that their programs are being cut.  These programs are unsustainable in Great Britain and across Europe.  Sound familiar?  That is our future if we continue down the nannystate path.

Will we have to lose our freedoms to realize how large government impedes them?  Maybe we will wake up when small business is regulated completely OUT of business...or when government leads the charge on fellow Americans...or when the consent of the governed is ignored...or when government robs individuals of initiative...or when government robs the next generation...or when government's true intention is cloaked in faux righteousness.

Yes.  Those things have already happened.  And today with a straight face, the President repeated his call for more stimulus.

Our system of government is being stolen before our eyes...and that's quite a grab.  The American experience, a unique and God-given opportunity, is being squandered.  And now Planned Parenthood dances in the street for joy because government has instructed insurance to pay for women's reproductive rights.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw2REPmbtj4  This video adds a note @the end to say Health and Human Services should be thanked for this wonderful thing they've brought about.


Woe is us!  God designed the authority of government to protect us, not to bring us harm.  He designed our work for our good, but some of us take without giving.  He offers true liberty and we insist on cheap rights.  Lord, we ask forgiveness for going our own way...for making life about "us"/not you...and for assuming you are so impotent that you can't even see us running to do wrong.  


Abba, your followers rest when we remember nothing will grab us out of your mighty hand.  We praise you for that surety.