I sat and listened to the President’s SOTU speech last night and I must truly tell you, this was the first time that I actually got physically sick peering into the chambers of the seat where the power in this country resides and works.
I literally thought I had tuned into some Hollywood production where old stars, with wrecked movie careers had gathered together in their most dignified attire, smiling through their heavily made up faces that surely made some plastic surgeon very rich. They were all very conscience of the cameras and seemed to just be waiting for their moment to be on screen and have the overlay of their name and title shown. It was a sickening scene to say the least.
Then, smiling, cocky, with far more Chicagoan swagger than Rick Perry ever brought from Texas, President Obama wassailed up to the podium, waving, shaking hands, kissing and hugging the women as he walked by, even telling one grabby congresswomen, “Don’t get lipstick on me!”
As he began to speak, I honestly thought to myself, “I want to listen, i want to see if this man really understands where we are and what we face. Maybe in light of the coming competition in the impending campaign, he’ll surprise us all with a litany of exciting promises. “
What I was really hoping he would NOT do, is start his campaign season here on this nigh, this revered night; a moment of hollowed historical time, this joint chambered address that the constitution demand to be executed.
But alas, the campaign was indeed started, right there on my Telly screen!
But, The MOST important issue facing this nation, the nearly 16 trillion dollars of debt. The unsustainable and deadly reality that we simply cannot continue with the monetary policies we are now living under, was NOT even dealt with by this man who holds so many keys of the keys to it’s correction.
What DID I hear in my moments of trusting attention? Spend, spend, spend! And then spend a little more!
Every single proposal, and there were MANY!, was another opportunity for the Federal Government to BUY INTO some program’s execution. And what the Fed couldn’t, or in his mind, shouldn’t fund, he made clear that he would DEMAND that the States pick up the charge. In fact, he spoke of so many opportunities for the States to fund things that it was clear to me he thought everyone had a greenback printing machine!
How in the world does this President think he’s going to pay for these programs? Well, he had a plan! He has a way to pay for all of it: Soak the rich with more and more taxes.
But I was glad to hear the President speak in favor of the FLAT TAX! He wants to flatly tax ALL who make more than 1 million dollars! He wants all millionaire taxed at a minimum of 30%. NOT the kind of flat tax that other more clear minded and straight thinking individuals have proposed.
America is a nation full of problems, according to Mr. Obama. He had a phrase that he uttered immediately after each new problem he mentioned…..”I have an answer…..or, I have a solution..and of course, the solution, no matter WHAT the problem was, is to spend more money, paid for by flatly higher taxes on the rich! Mr. President, adding to the deficient more and more and more is NO solution or answer, but only causes MORE problems with NO answers!
He spoke the truth about this division between the rich and those who aren’t. He even gave his new reality a name, the Buffet rule. We, and by we I mean those of us who tend to think a great deal differently than what we heard last night, we would see much of what he proposed as CLASS Warfare! He said, “some will call this class warfare. ”Uh, you think?” I was screaming at the telly by now! He went on, “But I believe that most fair minded Americans will not see this as Class Warfare……but common sense!”
Really? Not to repeat myself but, really Mr. President? You’re going to clearly call it what it is but spin it to convince us that class warfare is really common sense? Perhaps it’s common sense for the uncommon?
I gave up listening with my innocent hope for change….and just began to pray.
I cannot see a happy solution to our nation’s problems without at least these 3 steps being taken:
1) We need a national revival. A real revival, another great spiritual awakening. The current direction in our moral journey will only bring about absolute moral destruction.
2)We need a totally different, completely divergent direction of political thought in this country. The current direction will only bring about absolute economic destruction.
3)It will take a revival of conservative principles in the political world, because the unsustainable, pay everyone whatever they want, meet every need, write a check for every situation – political mindset is how we’ve gotten to this point to start with, and it will take a completely NON-progressive direction politically to save this country.
Will you pray with me?
I, like the founders of the new ONECRY (onecry.com) movement, believe that our only hope is genuine spiritual revival, where God becomes King rather than a Man believing he is.
