VIRGINIA CHURCH SERVICE AND THOUGHTS

Read this link to a very interesting sermon.

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Interesting sermon. I went and read Genesis starting in 39 and the first mistake of the Egyptian people was not saving for themselves but allowing Pharaoh to save for them. During the seven years of plenty Pharaoh, on Josephs advice and management, took 20% of the crops and stored them. Then when the famine came Pharaoh had all the
stored food and the Egyptians were forced to pay with everything they had just to get survival food. I think much of this country has made the same mistake, during the years of plenty very few saved and now that we are in the beginning years of famine people are looking to the government to meet all their needs. Pharaoh couldn't print money and devalue the currency of those who had saved and planned as the US Government can today. So today, although the Government didn't plan
ahead and save from years of plenty they can through currency devaluation and the institution of new taxes and fees take from those who did plan ahead and the end result is the same. Everyone becomes a servant of the government.

Now this view is from that of an Egyptian, as for the Hebrews and the sons of Jacob it gave the opportunity for Joseph to deliver his Fathers family from the famines of Canaan with God using Joseph to accomplish this.

Democrats playing doctor

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Recycling Cans

I have been telling Christopher how I used to save newspapers and cans for recycling when I was young. He has started saving cans and we were just looking to see how many cans it takes to make a pound which turns out is about 34 and the price I most recently saw was 55 cents a pound at the recyclers. However in that web site on which we learned how many cans there are per pound we learned what a major environmental impact recycling cans can have. Here is the link to that site and hopefully this will cause you to think before you throw cans in the garbage. Not for the money involved but for the positive environmental impact.
Recycling questions answered

Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare Information

I have been wondering what exactly is medicaid and why do we need government run health care to insure all the uninsured when we already have it with medicaid. I thought maybe I didn't understand what medicaid really is. I am going to paste some links here so you can see for yourself what medicaid really is. Once you realize what medicaid is you really wonder what this is all about. We already have a bankrupt government health care system in the form of both medicare and medicaid. Medicare for old people and Medicaid for the poor people. Thus the issue really becomes socializing the remaining amount of our health care in pursuit of FDR's second bill of rights.

Here is a link from the National Conference of State Legislatures giving an explanation of Medicaid

Short commercial explanation of Medicare

Now lets look at the unfunded liabilities of social security and medicare.

Of course we now understand this news clip from December 24, 2009.

President Obama just delivered a short speech praising Senate passage of the health care bill, calling the health care bill one of the most important piece of social legislation since Social Security in the 1930's and Medicare in the 1960's.

We now understand what important legislation means to a liberal. Legislation that has the legitimate opportunity to bankrupt an entire nation.

So of course we can understand why the government should take over all health care decisions on costs and benefits provided. They have done such a good job so far of spending money they don't have, why not expand it to the entire population, and just accelerate the bankrupting of this country. Lets look at how the Congressional Budget Office has done in the past of estimating the future since the democrats are basing their takeover of health care on CBO estimates. Is the US Government bankrupt?

Internet TV and Videos, Where the real journalism has gone

I just watched these two videos from this guy who seems to do more to educate and inform than 60 minutes with their unlimited budget. Pretty sad when we can get more education from internet sites with very small budgets such as PJTV and breitbarttv than we can from our "state run media" known as CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC and CNN.

Detroit in RUINS! (Why)


The REAL GUANTANAMO BAY!!

Detroit residents express little faith in Washington to fix city, auto industry

Why Interest Rates Will Almost Certainly Rise in 2010

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U.S. promises unlimited financial assistance to Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac

Only Obama would offer unlimited aid. No CEO would ever offer open ended commitments such as this.

On the same day that Obama was taking additional shots at the insurance industry and proclaiming historic progress toward nationalizing health insurance he was offering unlimited aid to Fannie and Freddie. Not only that but approving of multimillion dollar bonuses to their top management. If you are a friend of the White House then multimillion dollar bonuses are fine and even supported with government cash but if you are on their "shit list" then you should be restricted to 400,000 per year.

Here is an excerpt from the news long ago (December 5, 2009) relative to the just passed senate bill:

"Talks to find common ground on those issues are happening behind the scenes, but coloring the public action. Democratic leaders were giving the spotlight Saturday to Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark. — a key moderate with a difficult re-election next year — to propose an amendment that would limit insurance executives' tax deductible salaries to the same amount the U.S. president makes — currently $400,000.

The bill already includes a limit of $500,000 added by Lincoln earlier, so the new amendment doesn't represent a major change, though it does add a provision directing the expected $650 million in revenue to the Medicare trust fund."

This amendment failed but the intent is already in the bill.

Unlimited aid

Fannie, Freddie CEOs to Earn $4M-$6M in '09

White House Christmas Decor Featuring Mao Zedong Comes Under Fire

Why would we be surprised if the White House Christmas Tree had a Mao Zedong Christmas ornament. We had a white house communication director this year who had Mao as one of her favorite philosophers and when she left her husband then became the White House attorney which only made sense as he had been Obamas personal attorney before that.

White House Christmas Decor Featuring Mao Zedong Comes Under Fire

Anita Dunn Video

Dropping the Bomb on Healthcare

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Top Ten Reasons Why the Yield Curve Will Flatten (Hint: This Is a Different Sort of Recession)

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