America every year spends billions of dollars around the world in order to buy friends and influence her enemies. One problem is those dollars are tax payer's dollars, the spending of which are neither authorized nor consented to. In fact few tax payers are appraised of this fact. Another fact is the very friends that America feeds in one decade is the enemy she has to spend more dollars fighting in the next. Yugoslavia, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Syria? To name a few.
If the stated justification for spending all these millions of dollars abroad is in order to spread democracy around the world, how about spreading a little democracy here at home? Over the last 5 or so years the big banks, have been mercilessly raping, cheating and stealing from the little fellow, mainly the middle class, the poor and the elderly. How about a little democracy for them!
Someone said recently, "America is going the way of Sodom and Gomorrah;" some say its going to hell in a basket. The question is quo vades, America, Where are you going? Does charity not still begin at home and ends abroad?
Choose then this day whom you will serve
ReplyDeleteLooking at the world today, and listening to the comments, views and opinions about world affairs, our world wherever we may live, and whoever we are, there seems to be a singular lack of significant presence in the world by the church and those who claim to be Christians.
ReplyDeleteIt would seem the church only gets mentioned in connection with immorality, greed and scandal. If we are supposed to be the salt of the earth, where is our seasoning, if light, why are we not shining?