My Dad used to tell a story about a preacher and an old woman in the congregation. <\/p>\n
The preacher started off preaching about the evils of gambling and the little old lady yelled out \u201cAmen Brother.\u201d<\/p>\n
He railed against the evils of drink and the little old lady yelled out \u201cAmen Brother.\u201d<\/p>\n
He denounced the evils of smoking and the little old lady yelled out \u201cAmen Brother.\u201d<\/p>\n
He started in on the evils a snuff and the little old lady yelled out \u201cNow brother you have moved from preaching to meddling!\u201d<\/p>\n
So it is with politics especially today. The government is either helping make the world safer or meddling in what should be private affairs depending on which side you are on an issue. be it global warming, gun control same sex marriage, abortion, copyright infringement, and just about anything else. The same government is evil when it sides with \u201cthe other guy\u201d and good when it is on your side. People tell others to \u201ctrust the government to protect you\u201d on one issue and \u201cthe government is out of control\u201d on others.<\/p>\n
People want it both ways. It doesn\u2019t work that way. Sooner or later the more power the people had the government the more power the government wants and takes. At some point either a government become totalitarian or the people say \u201cenough\u201d and start taking power back from the government.<\/p>\n
It seems to me that a lot of people agree that business\/the rich\/how ever you want to categorize them have too much government control. And yet those same people have no problem with the rich funding candidates that they believe in. Obama did not win without a lot of rich people funding his campaign. Was the balance different for him than for Romney? I have to ask \u201cdoes it matter?\u201d because I don\u2019t think it does. He, and just about every other elected person at the national level and many state levels, is really too beholding to the rich and powerful.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t see a peaceful resolution. I wish I did but I don\u2019t. The country is too divided on too many issues. Division favors the united and for now that means the rich and powerful. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My Dad used to tell a story about a preacher and an old woman in the congregation. The preacher started off preaching about the evils of gambling and the little old lady yelled out \u201cAmen Brother.\u201d He railed against the evils of drink and the little old lady yelled out \u201cAmen Brother.\u201d He denounced the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}