It's Too Expensive To Live In New York, So, I Will Propose A 70% Tax For New Yorkers In Order To Help Pay My Bills

OK, I'm struggling with some things here. Didn't I read or hear about Alexandria Ocasio Cortez complaining about how high the cost of living is in New York, and how she was having a hard time finding and affordable place to live? Next thing I know, she is proposing a 70% tax for those who live in the state of New York. Do we see what is going on here?

I think it was in the state of Illinois, where I heard that the tax on a house is extremely high, and if you don't pay that tax, you will not be able to live in your house, even if it is paid off. So, one could be all set in their retirement, having paid every last cent on the bill for the house, yet, still be kicked out because the owner can't afford the taxes.

Does anyone see the problem(s) here? First, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez realizes the high cost of living. Then, she proposes this unreal tax on the people. That will help pay for the rent that she says she can't afford.

My question is, do the people who live in these areas of the country, realize what is going on? And if so, do they see the connection between who they voted for and the kinds of decisions those who are voted into office are making for us?

Things like this happened in Bible days as well. People who served in the top levels of the governments sometimes made good decisions that served the country well. Conversely, some who were in office made bad or wrong decisions, and brought great harm to the people.

God has given us in America, the opportunity to vote and elect the people we choose into office. But some people want to stay away from politics because they believe that politics are bad. Others actually believe, and I have heard this before, that Christians have no place being involved in politics.

(One time, I brought some voter guides to a church building, who supposedly wanted them. I talked with the lady who was a secretary who wasn't very kind at all, and refused to take the voter's guides. She said that we shouldn't be judging people! Do these people not understand what the issues are at hand? A voter's guide simply is a paper revealing the answers of candidates concerning certain questions that were asked of them.)

We probably have embraced those two ways of doing things, for now we are reaping what we have sown. Either we don't care, or are uninformed of what's going on around us, or, we have this simple belief that says we are to stay away from politics.

Is this what we want? Be assured, this trend will find its way in each state eventually, if we don't step up and become responsible citizens.

Don't ever forget to pray for our country. We need God's help and intervention like never before.

Why The Left Is Not Impressed With The Growing Economy

I was just thinking about how the Left does not care for Capitalism, and why they are less than impressed about the growing economy we have today.

Why is Capitalism so valuable anyway? When God designed people, he created them to be workers. With the fall of mankind, as described in Genesis 3, we experience bad ramifications from this, including our response to work and responsibility.

God created families. The family unit is the basic unit of society. The Bible defines the family unit as being made up of one man and one woman, who will reproduce by having children, or will adopt children. Being a parent is a big responsibility, and it requires at least one parent to work, which is normally the husband, and father of the children.

Normal people desire to be part of a family unit. Men will aspire to be good husbands and fathers, while normal women will build the home of the family as well as manage the household. When children come, mothers who are normal will love and nurture their children. Parents will protect their children as much as they possibly can, and they will provide for their children as well.

Why would the Left not care about Capitalism and how it is benefitting our society today? The answer is simple; Leftists do not have a high value for the family unit!

Leftists are also redefining the family unit. Today, a man can have a marriage relationship with another man, if that is what he desires. Or at least he can have a sexual bonding with another male. Women have that same option. Many women are so disgusted at the men today, that they have chosen to be lesbians. But what is ironic about this, is that it is obvious that these kinds of relationships will not produce children, so, many homosexual or lesbian relationships look into adopting children.

But it even gets more bizarre. I have read or heard about a man who married his computer! Now, this one is beyond me, but it is happening in America today. And many would think of this type of activity as 'freedom'. But we see it as bondage.

God has not ordained men to marry men, nor has He ordained women to marry other women. Or computers or anything else. When we step out of God's boundaries, we step out of His umbrella of protection. We also open the door to Satan and give him an opportunity to cause us to stumble.

Capitalism has no meaning or value to a Leftist simply because there is no reason why they would need to earn money or make a living. And hey, if they can bum money off the rich, so much the better. And if we can do that legally, woo hoo!!

So, normal men and women work hard to provide for themselves food, shelter, clothing, and the basic things we need in life, for themselves and their families. But the Leftists want to have power in the top levels of government, mainly so they can make the laws and call the shots. And they can take the money that people worked hard at, legally, to provide for their families, and use it on themselves for their pleasures.

This is not only unfair. This is unjust. There will be a day of reckoning for all this. In the meantime, we will have to be praying and fasting for this country. We need help.

Many have chosen to reject God and God has turned them over to their wicked desires. They do shameful acts, shamelessly. The conscience is gone. They can now do whatever they want, and not feel bad about hurting others. And when they are in the White House, that only spells trouble. Serious trouble.

May God have mercy on us!

Pray
* God will save those who will come to know Him, but are in darkness right now.
* LGBT activists will become powerless
* People in America will learn the fear of the Lord
* The word of God will go out in power
* Those in the church to be envisioned to do the work of evangelism
* People will be able to separate the truth from the lies

Updated Ant and the Grasshopper Story and How It Applies To America Today

Someone sent me this yesterday, and I found it interesting and enlightening. I will share it here with my readers. I don't know who the writers were of this article, but I think the point is clear.

As you probably know, the classical version of the Ant and the Grasshopper story goes like this:

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter so he dies out in the cold.

I didn't write this, (Jim Quinn did) and I don't endorse it. But I it's funny, so here it is, the Updated Ant and Grasshopper fable:

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving. CBS, NBC, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can it be that, in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?

Then a representative of the NAAGB (The National Association for the Advancement of Green Bugs) shows up on Nightline and charges the ant with "green bias", and makes the case that the grasshopper is the victim of 30 million years of greenism. Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when he sings "It's Not Easy Being Green." Bill and Hillary Clinton make a special guest appearance on the CBS Evening News to tell a concerned Dan Rather that they will do everything they can for the grasshopper who has been denied the prosperity he deserves by those who benefited unfairly during the Reagan summers, or as Bill refers to it, the "Temperatures of the 80's." Richard Gephardt exclaims in an interview with Peter Jennings that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and calls for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his "fair share". Finally, the EEOC drafts the "Economic Equity and Anti-greenism Act," retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government. Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal judges that Bill appointed from a list of single-parent welfare moms who can only hear cases on Thursday afternoon between 1:30 and 3:00 PM when there are no talk shows scheduled.

The ant loses the case.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he's in -- which just happens to be the ant's old house -- crumbles around him since he doesn't know how to maintain it. The ant has disappeared in the snow. And on the TV, which the grasshopper bought by selling most of the ant's food, they are showing Bill Clinton standing before a wildly applauding group of Democrats announcing that a new era of "fairness" has dawned in America.