Economic Bail out

Family of God and other readers…

Our Nation is so focused on the economy that we loose focus on things that truly matter.  We fail to remember that living a good honest life, spending time with family, be involved in our community and church and so forth are things that truly matter.  We are so caught up in the economy and so afraid that it will fail that we have made some really irresponsible decisions in our Nation.  Of course what is new.  Our Government is not only responsible, but so are many AMericans who live in debt.  So who is to blame?  Who is the cause?  Who really can fix it?  Please don’t answer that with manly wisdom!

Let me say I am no expert about this…but I love my country and care about its future…but I also know that my country is not my answer to all of lives problems.  I must be responsible for my economic success and failures.  I am responsible for being a hard worker and making a living for my family.  We as a nation are responsible to help the economy recover.  It is a team and country effort that will bail us out…not an economic bail out plan by Uncle Sam.  The bail out plan in my opinion was wrong and irresponsible as a whole.  My Senator and Congress Woman failed me (Republicans and Democrats).  If our economy fails or succeeds it will not be because of this plan.  It will first be part of God’s soveriegn plan and becasue we the people rised up to secured our future.  If we do not turn to God or change the way we approach economics this will happen again.

By the way I believe the bail out plan just made that  more difficult for us to truly become responsible and we will pass this on to future generations.  I am sure there are some good points to the bail out plan…however, they didn’t bail out anybody I know…so who exactly are we bailing out?  Just think about it.  I know some of you will have an answer to the question.  But we shouldn’t be bailing out corporation adn the like that have failed because of mismangement and irresponsiblitly.  I think we should have faced the consequences of our mistakes and pulled together…we shoudl hold people accountable and companies accountable.  We just spent money we don’t have to do this bail out.  When is the last time you were able to do that with your home budget?  Last time I looked at my budget…if the money wasn’t there it wasn’t there.  I cannot tell 5/3 bank…well I overdrafted my checking account because I needed extra money.  They are not goign to go for that…nor will they bail me out…Why is the government any different?  Why did we allow this?  I believe it is becuase we live in a cerdit drivien society where that we will accept debt and think nothing about it and we panicked not knowing what to do.  The biggest mistake we continue to make as a nation is that we love politics and money more than God…think about that one for a while.

Here is what I say…stay the course with your investments.  Be responsible with your money…don’t panic.  If you loose it all – we are all in the same boat because that means the ship is going down.  Also remember this -  what goes up must come down.  I have always said this…we cannot continue to go up and up and up…eventually it has to cap or come down.  In this case it is coming down hard.  It will balance out and we will recover as a nation.  Trust God…lay up tressures in Heaven.  Focus on God, Church, Family, Friends, being a good neighbor, and a hard worker etc.  Do things that matter.  Yes, money is important…but our Nation is demonstrating that MONEY IS OUR GOD…and the love (Worship) of money is the root of all evil.  My love is for GOd.  I don’t like my retirement fading away.  But my allegiance must be to God before my portfolio.  I want to be remained focused on being responsible as a steward of all that GOd has entrusted to me.

Again…I am not an expert on the market…but I am on my home budget and I do pretty good.  When it gets tight we cut back.  As a result I can truly say I am blessed.  So cut back and lets pull together so we can remain the most blessed nation on earth.  I lack nothing have very few worries and life is good…even in this economic crisis.  Imagine we call this an economic crisis and we have food on the table and shelter.  Guess what most of us…no all of us even have many luxeries and comforts in life.  We need to stop panicing…we need realize how spoiled we are and call it what it is…a blessed life.  We are blessed and we need to stop worshipping money and worship God.  Turn the economy over to HIm and let’s start applying God’s principles to our econoimics.

I hope some of this made since!

PC