Any American recovery in practice will go back to the American way Forget all the theory that the economists and socialists keep peddling to us. Any American recovery in practice must go back to the American way! The American way is one of self reliance and reliance on community not reliance on big government and its entrenched bureaucrats. I really do not think America will choose to go back to the American way but if they did the following is probably the way to do it. Taxes – Do away with the IRS. Get rid of all income taxes on corporations and individuals. Get rid of all payroll taxes on employers. There would be no deduction for employees other than a 15 percent deductions for all health and social programs (see below). Stop taxing savings and investments. They generally do not even keep up with inflation anyway. Keeping up with inflation is hardly income. All this tax compliance requires millions of people doing work that produces nothing but higher taxes. Pay for federal government with a twenty percent sales tax on all products purchased without any exceptions. Big ticket items like houses and cars will be rolled into the monthly payment. Limit federal government spending to what it takes in. Set apart one percent of this twenty percent to pay off the national debt. People will be taxed only on their own consumption and the only deductions from their wages will be 15 percent to pay for the retired, the disabled, the poor and catastrophic health insurance for all. State and local taxes – No payrolls taxes or taxes on business. State and local governments would get their funds through sales taxes and property taxes. World Trade - If other nations dump products or keep their exchange rate too low we should put a tariff on them to make their products competitive. Economy - Get rid of all benefits from the employer. There is no free lunch and people with big families are being subsidized by others doing the same job. You pay for your benefits anyway by receiving lower wages or paying higher prices for goods and services. Employers should only have to worry about producing and selling goods and services and paying their employees a wage. Employers should not be required to become a social welfare agency. Employees should bargain for good wages to cover their living expenses. Do away with unemployment insurance. It is no longer insurance it is a government give away program. Employers should be required to pay severance pay when they fire people without documented bad conduct or substandard performance. If they cannot because they are bankrupt then government should cover it and government should be first on the list to recover the funds in any bankruptcy distributions. Two weeks pay for every year worked for an employer seems fair to me. The real point is to give people income until they can take another job, it should not be paying people not to work. In times of less than full employment the government should give employers incentives for on the job training and creating jobs. Getting rid of the illegals in the work force will open up millions of jobs right off the bat. Do away with a minimum work week and minimum wage. A standard work week will not be necessary since nobody will be getting extra benefits by working full time anyway. Millions of workers today are just being screwed because employers keep them working part time so they do not have to comply with government benefit laws that apply only to full time employees. When skills are equal the only fair system is equal pay for equal hours worked. If the bureaucratic book keeping nightmare necessary to satisfy government laws is taken off the back of employers and if employers and investments are not taxed it would encourage much more investment and the creation of many millions of new jobs. Employees would then be able to bid up decent wages. Government - We can get rid of half the federal government because half of the government only exists to create and enforce laws that keep people dependent on the government. We need to just shut down many government agencies and programs. Having worked in government myself for many years I know that most government employees do not pull a full load. The number of government employees can be cut back drastically without any ill effect. We can save 10 to 20 percent of the time they waste by just eliminating team meetings and social engineering indoctrinations. Politics – Have term limits and limit contributes to any political campaign from a person or a special interest group to about twenty bucks. Let’s have a government of the people for the people and not a government bought and paid for by special interests and political action groups. Health Care - Other than the retired and the disabled everyone should pay for their own health care directly to providers. The very poor would pay some of the costs but the costs would be subsided by government on a sliding scale. Catastrophic health insurance would kick in on a sliding scale after a determined deductible. Paying most of your own health care will not cost you as much as what you might think. If health providers can get rid of the insurance and government bureaucracies and all the staff they employ to comply with the rules of these bureaucracies they could lower the price of all basic routine visits and procedures by a third. Most insured are already paying one third of medical costs through coinsurance, co-payments, deductibles and things not covered, so all you would need to do is double what you are already paying for most health care. Over half of medical visits today are totally unnecessary. People comes to medical centers and even emergency rooms for treatments a nurse can advise them over the phone or Internet. It is ridiculous. Those on government programs do it because they pay nothing for a visit. Doctors get such low reimbursements from government and insurance companies that some pad their numbers by making people come in for refills when it is usually unnecessary. Get rid of the unnecessary visits and the doctor shortage will also vanish. Take the incentives away from lawyers to sue health care providers and half the unnecessary expensive tests would never be ordered by doctors. For the poor we can have sliding scales and and for all we need to have catastrophic insurance but it would be more like house insurance where insurance companies or government pays the cost of the catastrophe but they have no say in how you rebuild or refurnish your house. Here’s food for thought – The average family between the costs of employer and employee now pay over $1000 a month for health insurance plus they pay co-payments, coinsurance and deductibles. If you had what amounts to well over $12,000 in additional income each year do you think you could pay double your medical cash outlays each year? Also, remember that you will have catastrophic insurance for any very costly procedures that might arise so do not consider that in this equation. So the bottom line on my health care suggestion is that cost of most medical visits and procedures might cost you double what you pay today but you would have $12,000 more buying power each year if you received the income that you and your employer pay for health insurance. Get rid of all these inefficiencies and the layers of bureaucracies and the cost of all medical care in the United States would be about half of what it is today. It would be more like 8 – to 10 percent of the GNP rather than the 17 percent it is now. That would be more in line with what the rest of the developed world pays. Immigration - No illegal immigration will be allowed and legal immigration would be limited. All immigrates would have to learn English. Getting rid of the illegals will create millions of jobs in America almost instantly. It can be done. It was done in the 1950′s when almost all the two million illegals from Mexico working in the United States got the message from President Eisenhower and the INS and went back to live in Mexico. If nobody can hire illegals and they get no benefits by being here they have no incentive to stay. Religion - The American way allows all religion and does not prohibit the free expression of it in public. There will be no IRS telling preachers what they cannot preach. There will be no banning of prayer or the name of Jesus from the public square. Foreign policy and national defense – We must have the best defense in the world but we generally do not need to fight wars for other nations. We need to develop mobile and ship based laser and electromagnetic defensive weapons that can destroy any weapon intended against us. We need to train and equip a large number of rapid strike special forces that will have the capabilities to destroy any terrorist training camp anywhere on the planet. We need to develop plasma and electrical pulse weapons that can destroy the offensive capabilities of any nation that would dare to war against us. We also need to reduce by a third the number of people within the military industrial complex. Most of these are highly paid civilians. Activist judges that legislate from the bench - We must establish reasonable methodologies to impeach and remove judges at all levels. Energy policy – The energy crises is government made. Get government and obstructive environmental lawsuits out of the way and we will become completely energy independent in less than two decades. We have natural gas and oil reserves that can be produced for the equivalent of $2.00 a gallon gas and it will last for at least two hundred years. We have vast coal reserves that are even less costly to develop for cheap electricity production. Crime – No more tolerance for gangs, either decriminalize drug use or have zero tolerance for it and stop it by prosecution of both users and dealers. Take the cites back from criminals. Take the prisons back from gangs. Encourage law abiding men to routinely carry firearms. Contract out non violent felons to labor camps instead of putting them in warehouses called prisons. Make them repay their debt to society by doing hard work on our farms and repairing our national infrastructure. No more tolerance for soft crimes like various frauds! If people like stealing more than working they should reap more hard work than they ever bargained for. Prisons for the violent should by ruled with a rod of iron. There should be zero tolerance in prisons for gang activity or gang recruitment and indoctrination under the guise of religion. Education – Do away with the Education Department and all federal social engineering mandates. Those in grade schools should not be indoctrinated they should be learning basic skills like reading, writing. English and math. They should also learn the true history of our nation and the world and they should be instructed in the social skills necessary to live in a civil society. We need much smaller community schools not smaller classrooms. Abortion – should not be the right of the mother. Created human life has a right to live. If the mother does not want the child the child should be adopted out to a couple that will raise it. Marriage - Marriage in civil society and all history has always been between one man and one woman. There is no reason to pervert what we know works. Gay rights, etc. The American way is for the federal government to keep out of the personal lives of people as much as possible. Moral codes of a community should be decided by the people living in that community. The Dollar - Back paper with something tangible. Banks – Break up the big banks in this country. Go back to real community banks and credit unions that serve the community and that do not speculate in risky investment and have undue influence on national politics and national media.
Retirement and Medicare- Since we cannot go back instantly to a nation where the young take care of their old we will have to have a retirement system for the old and truly disabled. There are no funds in Social Security because the government robbed them to pay for social engineering programs and to pay for wars. So we need a new pay as you go retirement system but we should never let government rob the bank again, nor should we tell employers to pay for these programs. There will only be two young people supporting every old person in the decades ahead so do the math. I think retirement age and the age to receive Medicare will have to be raised to 70 over a period of time. People will be living longer healthier lives anyways with advances in medicine. I think it will take about ten percent of all wage income to support these old age programs if the age is raised and they are plenty of jobs. One thing we can do to remedy the age imbalance in our demographics is to stop aborting babies and to encourage more adoptions of children from third world countries by those that have sufficent income to bring these children up to be productive citizens. Then eventually the ratio between young and old will be more balanced and the percentage of income necessary to support these old age programs can start to fall.
Medicaid, food, charity etc. – Some should be federally funded out of that 15 percent deduction. Some should be state funded and some needs should be the responsibly of local charities and churches. No more double and triple dipping where people get food stamps and spend it on crap or sell the food stamps so they can buy crap and then go to local food banks and local charities for food that they should have bought with the food stamps! Communications – Reasonably priced high speed Internet communications should be available for everyone even if that means we have to put up government supplemented antenna systems and a satellite system to serve those in very rural areas. Now, if the tea party and the Republicans would push such a platform and people would actually vote to return to the American way there could be some hope for America. But, considering the ongoing moral decline in this nation I sincerely doubt if it can happen. Related posts Under Drugs and addiction, Financial collapse, Health care, Politics, Public education, abortion, amoral society, crime | Taged abortion, america, crime, drugs, economy, food for thought, Homosexual, Politics, puplic schools The one percent rule for bloggers and latest information on this BlogI guess it is time to tell you everything that you probably did not want to know about this blog once again. The last post about the Mormon prophecies to establish a theocracy in America has been up for about a week now. In that week there were about 1300 views to the homepage and it would have been the first post article that anyone saw. About 300 in that week viewed that post directly from a search or a link. Of those 1600 views about one dozen people – less than one percent – actually clicked on the link and read any part of the article that I discussed. It really makes me wonder why I even bother to link to supporting articles if people with the attention span of a gnat will never take the time to view them? I guess one could claim that this post subject was not of interest to many but this one percent rule is true of any article I put up. The only exception seems to be articles that predict the future. Maybe bloggers should give it up and just tweet in 50 words or less. Now you know why Twitter is so popular. What intellectual depth electronic communications has brought to this postmodern post-moronic nation! Is it any wonder why people now talk in sound bites and pastors rip verses out of context? The views to this Blog are still very gradually increasing. They now average about 700 views a day. About a third of those each day go to the homepage and it contains the last ten posts. Any of the posts read from the homepage will not be counted as views in my sidebar top 100. Since so many posts are read from the homepage it kind of makes it difficult for any new posts to even get into the top 100 unless it becomes a popular Google search. Finding just the right keywords for the title and the content for that to happen on any post is a very elusive task. But, the top 100 are really there for another reason other than to show the number of views. It is there as a directory of some of the best posts on this blog. The blog will now load faster. To make the blog load faster I cut down the number of posts in the homepage from 15 to 10. (I really should cut it to five but since nobody clicks on links they probably would never go beyond the homepage and they would miss some of the posts, so I guess I will keep it at 10.) I also now compress all the data on my website and have a cache plug-in on the blog. I also eliminated one of the anti-spam plug-in’s that seemed to be slowing things down. I have now done everything I can do to make the blog load faster. If I took any further significant action to make it load faster it would degrade the information on the blog. YSlow software now gives it a “B” so I guess that will have to B good enough. You might think 700 views a day is pretty good but I do not. My main website excluding the blog gets 4000 views. Just the top twenty articles on my website gets as many hits a day as my entire blog but the blog has five times as many articles. Sure, many of the downloads on the website are really robots but from the emails I get they might have more reading comprehension and reasoning ability than some humans. I killed my old Demented Delusional or Dumb Blog this weekend. There were a few hundred posts that had comments on them or were still getting a few hits so I imported all those into this Blog. Any queries bringing people to topics on that blog will now automatically be forwarded to the appropriate article here. There are now about 1300 hundred posts on this Blog and almost 5000 comments. My earlier blog posts were not search engine optimized so I plan to go through all my posts and search optimize all of them. That will take about 5 to 10 minutes for each post so do the math. I guess it will take months to get it all done. As I do this I also plan to eliminate some posts that are no longer relevant. My long term goal is to keep only about 1000 search engine optimized relevant posts on this blog. Another goal is to get the daily read count up to 1000 a day by the end of the year. If that cannot be achieved I will really have to evaluate if the time adding to this Blog is worth the time and effort that is involved. Related postsMormon plan to establish a world theocracy from America.Early last month I wrote an article called Rising Christian Imperialism Fueled by Dominion Theology. The article is mainly about the danger of Far Right Christian dominionists gaining control after the Obama failure brings about a Far Right backlash in America. Little did I know when I wrote it that there is already a plan in place to establish a world theocracy from America. It is part of Mormon prophetic doctrine. Now some might say that this is just some pipe dream of a cult. However, if you read this article you might not be so complacent. Mormons have been working toward that end for 160 years and they have infiltrated high levels of government especially top secret intelligence positions. One of their own Bishops, Mitt Romney, is still one of the top contenders for President of the United States in 2012. Is it just a coincidence that Christian Dominionism is rising within the Far Right Tea Party that is being fueled at least in part by the rhetoric of a Mormon named Glen Beck and the membership of the Mormon Church? Is it just a coincidence that the main contenders for President or Vice President in 2012 are still Mormon Bishop Mitt Romney and Christian Dominionist Sarah Palin? Is this all going to tie together somehow to fulfill Mormon prophecy and are the biblically illiterate Christians in America going to be duped into putting a Mormon or a Dominionist into office thinking that these people represent Christianity or Christ? Then after they stack the deck with their own people who is going to remove them? I know it sounds far fetched but a few years ago any claim that there would be a socialists running government, appointing Far Left rebels and perverts, would not be taken seriously. Remember, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. The reaction to the godless socialism and lawlessness might by a pseudo-Christian theocracy. By the way, under the Mormon plan and prophecy all wealth goes to the Mormon Church and the Church redistribute the wealth to whom the Church chooses in their Kingdom of God, so you still get world socialism. All roads to the future now seem to lead to god substitutes ruling the earth. I guess all roads really do lead to Rome, in any final analysis. One might even come to believe that all world religion is part of a vast satanic conspiracy where man is led to believe that he can become like God (it is). Anyway, this unusual article by Ed Decker is extremely thought provoking. Whatever you might think, the Mormons are deadly serious about establishing the Kingdom of God on the earth and fulfilling the prophecy about the United States before Jesus can return. The Mormons are on the similar ground as Protestants in Dominion Theology, The Roman Catholic Vatican, Masons, New Age/New Spirituality and all those in various esoteric systems that think man will bring in some utopia on earth. I will just quote a couple of clips to give you a taste of the article. The article was written three years ago but everything applies even more today.
Related posts Under Apostasy, dangers | Taged america, Dominionism, False Prophet, food for thought, New Apostolic Reformation, Sarah Palin The Bible is a book of scripts from God and most scripts have contextI have noticed that some teachers and preachers today just rip passages of the Bible out of proper context in order to support whatever point they happen to be teaching. However, the Bible is a book of scripts from God and most of His scripts do have context. So maybe some teachers should read the context of a passage of the Bible before they give a teaching based on a passage. Taking scriptures out of context and applying strange interpretations to them has been going on since scriptures were given. Making certain Bible passages allegory and misapplying them is how we got Gnosticism, certain Catholic Theologies, some Protestant Theologies, Dominion Theology, Replacement Theology, Liberation Theology, Emergent Theology, Word/Faith Theology etc, etc. Most heresy comes from some misapplication of scripture. In evangelical Bible churches and in Pentecostalism teachers that would never resort to allegory will resort to taking a passage entirely out of context and applying it to support their message. This is not just going on with fringe teachers. I see scriptures that are ripped out of proper context published in evangelical Sunday School material and other teachings in the mainstream. I do not think it is a malicious attempt on the part of teacher to deceive since what they are teaching can often be supported elsewhere in scripture. So why do they use passages that do not support what they are teaching as if it supports it? Perhaps because the passage is a convenient short cut. Rather than digging up various passages to support what they want to convey they conveniently find one that out of context says what they want more concisely. Maybe they think their audiences are so biblical illiterate that they will not know that the passage does not support their teaching. Perhaps there are a few that never were taught or never grasped that the Bible is not a book of unrelated passages to be quoted like the Koran. Much of The Bible is a script of related passages that needs to be understood in context. Who really knows why teachers rip verses out of proper context? Probably some of them are ignorant, others are preoccupied with other things, others are overworked and others are just lazy. I see quite a bit of abuse with those quoting Old Testament passages where God is talking specifically and obviously to Israel and then making it some application for the Church. I know that most using these passages as some application for the Church do not support Replacement Theology but they often claim scriptures as if they do. The Church is not Israel and many things said specifically to Israel can never apply to the Church. Some would then claim that all scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: (2Ti 3:16 ). Yes it is, but only if the scripture is applied as God intends for the above. For correct exegesis of the Bible Christians need to use the Grammatical-Historical interpretation of scriptures that also takes into account the context of the passage. Much nonsense would not be taught if teachers would just read the full context. If your going to take a couple of verses out of the Bible to prove your point at least make sure that in context it proves your point. Even major cults use Bible passages to support their own theology. One can make the Bible say just about anything if your going to quote verses selectively and narrowly to support your own belief system. The Bible is a book of scripts from God so we need to use the Grammatical-Historical interpretation of scripture and take into account the context of the passage. If any teacher needs a refresher course on how scriptures should be interpreted here is a reasonable link.
Related postsThe Americian tyranny of a conglomeration of minoritiesWhen a Government serves and gives special rights to a conglomeration of minorities against the will of the American majority the nation is under a tyranny of the minorities. Apparently we are now under such a tyranny in America. There is a way this can be changed politically by electing a Republican super majority. If we are a government of the people, the majority will have to stand united against this conglomeration of minorities that now controls American government, education, media and often religion. Of course, if the Republican revolution is successful we will then have to guard against a tyranny of the majority against minorities. Here are some facts about this tyranny of the minorities that is forced on the majority of Americans :
Related posts Under Big Brother, Obama-nation, control freaks | Taged america, Big Brother, control freaks, food for thought, Homosexual, liberals, obama, Politics Learn the parable of the fig tree.We have had quite a bit of discussion in the comments section about the fig tree of Matthew chapter 24 and Mark chapter 13 because of certain teachers interpretations put on it that imply all end time events will be fulfilled by 2018 (a normal lifespan from Israel being back in the Land). It therefore probably should be something I should discuss in more depth since I do not agree that Jesus was saying that all will be fulfilled by 2018. The Parable Jesus told us to learn is almost certainly referring to His cursing of the fig tree which also represented a curse on Israel. Both the tree and the nation of Israel were cursed because they did not know the time of the Messiah’s coming. So if that view is true and if we are going to learn about the parable we need to understand that the tree Jesus cursed is withered and it will remain withered until the time God restores it. According to the passage one day that withered tree (Israel) will put forth shoots or leaves but until then it is going to look like a barren dead tree spiritually. Other bible passages also imply that Israel was cut down but will one day be restored. Israel became a nation again in 1948 but it is still a nation of dry bones in spiritual unbelief. So we see a spiritual withered Israel in the land today but even though it is now rooted back in God’s land where it belongs we are still looking for some signs of spiritual life on the tree. Once we see some signs of life we know that summer is coming and the time for Israel to bear fruit for God is near. So before we can say we are in the final generation that will not pass away until all is fulfilled I think we need to see some spiritual growth in Israel. I hardly think that is the case in Israel today although there may be a few buds here and there. In Mt 24:33 Jesus said when you shall see all these things know that the time is near and that the generation seeing all these things would not pass away before all is fulfilled. What things did Jesus tell us they should see? We have to go back to what Jesus just said prior to this. In the earlier part of his discourse Jesus was explaining what must take place before the end. The hard part is determining at just what point that final generation starts in Jesus statement. I think it is clear that verse 9 through 15 of Jesus statement have to be in the first part of tribulation because the context in both Matthew and Mark make that abundantly clear (he that will endure to the end will be saved – the end of the tribulation). Also, right after this we see the 42 month period of the Antichrist. So the generation has to start before verse 9. Verse 8 just explains that verse 5 through 7 are the beginning of sorrows. So all we are left to deal with is verse 5 through 7 for the signs. I think the end time signs actually starts in verse 7 because verse 6 clearly says the end is not yet. Verse 7 says nation will war against nation and kingdom against kingdom and there will be famines, pestilences and many earthquakes. Where have we heard that describe elsewhere in the Bible? All that is described in the seals in Revelation. Once again verse 8 tells us that all these are but the beginning of sorrows and we see in verse 9 that we are in the tribulation. So the signs for that final generation start some time before the seven year tribulation and probably starts with the opening of the seals. That only makes sense to me because John is describing these same signs as Jesus opens the seals. So it should not be unexpected that Jesus was also describing the seals when he gave the signs for the final generation to look for. Therefore, without being dogmatic about this I think those living in the time of the seals will be the generation that will see all things fulfilled and that is what I think Jesus was inferring. So when does Israel put forth leaves? The passage really does not say but I think we might believe it would be in the time of verse 7 which is also probably describing the Gog war as well as others. In any case, nothing said in this passage really implies that the creation of Israel in 1948 started the final generation. The last generation more likely starts in the beginning of sorrows described in Math 24:7 and that is the generation that would not pass away before everything is fulfilled. The wording also could just mean that everything will be fulfilled in the same generation that sees all the signs and might not even be inferring a generational time period or lifespan as many suggest I will Post the Bible passage here so you can have them at hand and refer to them and form your own conclusions
Related posts Under Bible prophecy teachers, Tribulation period | Taged bible prophecy, food for thought, Israel, Second Coming, teaching Koenig’s perspectives on Bible prophecy and world issues, July 2010I decided to start a monthly series on my perspectives on world and church issues. Some will have some bearing on end time Bible prophecy. For those who do not know me and found this post through a search engine. I have had a website called The Prophetic Years for over ten years. For the last three years the site also hosts a Blog named “World and Church Trends and Bible Prophecy“. This blog is where these monthly perspectives are posted along with other posts of interest usually related to the Blog title. I will create a special category on the sidebar for these perspectives so you can find them all in one place. Comments are allowed if you read and adhere to my commenting policy. I am sure many are not going to want to accept my perspectives for July because just too many want to fly off in the Rapture by the- day-after-tomorrow. Nevertheless, I am not here to itch anyone’s ears. I call it like I see it. If you insist that the Rapture “has” to occur in the next few years you might as well take your ball and go home, because your playing on the wrong field. ____________ Let me start July’s perspective by saying I read an article yesterday by a very well known and usually very good Bible prophecy teacher that dogmatically said the Rapture must occur by 2011 because all had to be completed 70 years from the creation of Israel in 1948. Thus, all has to be complete by the Feast of Trumpets 2018. He believes the rapture occurs at least seven years prior to the Feast of Trumpets 2018 so the Rapture must occur before the fall of 2011. This prophecy teacher is not alone, there are quite a few like him although perhaps they are not quite so dogmatic. Now if you really believe that you will be gone in less than 15 months you might as well send me all the surplus money that you have. All you need is enough to keep you going for another 15 months. I wonder what this teacher is going to say for an encore after 2011 comes and goes. I suppose 70 years will be changed to 80 years and if that don’t work out it will become 120 years. It makes me wonder how long some people will continue to buy into speculations on certain passages as if it was biblical truth. These Rapture speculations have been going on my whole Christian life and not one has got it right yet. This teacher also wants us to believe that the war of Psalm 83 and Ezekiel 38 will be fulfilled before the final seven years, or prior to the end of next year. So we can all just blow our minds out of our butt and pretend that the Psalm 83 war and the Ezekiel war with its huge assembly of armies containing 9 nations can assemble a huge army and come down against an Israel living at peace and security in just one year? It simply is not going to happen! _______________ Bible prophecy teachers have been speculating for years that Israel is going to bomb Iran’s nuclear sites any day now, and without the help of the United States. About six months ago I came to the conclusion that this is very unlikely to happen. If a war were to break out now between Iran and Israel it certainly would also include the Arab Hezbollah and Hamas proxies. Yet, Iran is not mentioned at all in the Psalm 83 Arab war to cut off Israel from being a nation. So how can that be? I have thrown around different ideas myself but I still think it is because there will be a Revolution in Iran before they make the decision to develop nuclear weapons. The Iranian people are against the Islamic regime and they have the army with them. If it comes to a revolution the army will fight with the people. Even voices of the elite Revolutionary Guard say they will not fight against the people. The regime is hiring outsiders to keep the people from gathering in large groups because they know if there is ever a national gathering like last summer again they will lose control. But sooner or later it is going to happen. It might take a few more martyrs but when the change comes it will happen in a day. The present ruling twelver’s will flee into exile. What would Iran be like after the Revolution? It first will want to stop the sanctions and get aid and development from the West. All nuclear programs will be converted to be used for peaceful purposes and they would all be opened to international inspection. Actually Israel and Iran will become quite friendly and I think economic alliances will be set up. The Middle East will become a very wealthy place and it will be living in peace and that is the picture that we see before the war of Ezekiel 38. Most in Bible prophecy want to make that war imminent and in this decade but it just does not fit. I think the Ezekiel 38 war is more likely almost twenty years down the line. We cannot make Bible prophecy fit our own schedule based on our wanting to see the return of Christ in our lifetimes. So what will happen to the Arab nations that are now an imminent danger to Israel. I think Palm 83 describes that. At the time of the Ezekiel 38 war these nations are no where to be seen. Borders are gong to change radically in the Middle East. I think Israel, Iraq and Iran will be the big winners. The Arab nations that surround Israel will be the big losers. Then we will see peace in the Middle East until the time of the Ezekiel 38 Gog war. ___________________ In Afghanistan we could win and we still lose our objectives. The tribal war lords that control that nation might agree to anything if it will get the U.S. to pull out. However, as soon as we are gone they will resort back to their tribal ways. There can be no strong central government in Afghanistan. What we need to do is hit terrorist camps anywhere they are located and not try to build a nation ruled by democracy where there can be no democracy. Even our own Western democracy is hanging by a thread. We should try to keep what our forefathers game us before we think we can tell others to live by the values that we are now so freely give up. ___________________ We need to stop illegal Immigration it is not bringing us the best from other nations, it is bringing in many criminals. There simply is no reason why the federal government could not stop it if they really wanted to. If Mexicans and Central Americans knew that we had people that would use deadly force on the border and that they would be imprison when caught they hardly would come at all. If we did not allow employers to hire illegals and if illegals did not get free benefits they would leave this country. Most of them are remaining here hoping for another amnesty. We need to make it clear that any immigration to the United States will only be done legally. __________________ Some Christians do not understand Bible prophecy and Eschatology one iota and that is why secular news organizations pick up what they say and make Christians out to be complete idiots. For example, the Christian illiterates will remember that somewhere in the Bible it talks about the sea turning to blood. So they see some red in the oil spill in the gulf and give others the suggestion that they think it could be a fulfillment of Bible prophecy. Had they actually read the prophecy they would have to be complete idiots to believe that an oil spill is any fulfillment of it. But that is where we are at in Christian education these days. First off, they should know that a third of the sea first turns to blood during the Trumpet Judgments. Anyone have a clue how they think we got to the Trumpet Judgments before the Day of the lord? The Trumpets occur after the time when everyone is hiding in the holes in the ground to protect them from what they see coming upon the earth? Clearly we are not in the times described in these chapters in Revelation. Further, the prophecy specifically says a burning mountain will fall into the sea and that will make the sea turn into blood. So a asteroid or some comet is having an encounter with the Earth and not some Gulf oil spill. Right after that great body hits the sea and turns it to blood another body called Wormwood falls on the land and turns the rivers to blood. So oil spills do not fulfill Bible prophecy the judgments come out of heaven. So quit telling media about Bible prophecy when you have no understanding of it yourself! We saw the same thing happen with the burning wells of Iraq. Certain people were suggesting that it was a fulfillment of Bible prophecy. We really can’t expect media to have a clue about Bible prophecy but Christians should, and if they really do not know Bible prophecy they should just keep quite and let the media go to a more reliable source . ______________________ One clear sign that we are getting near the end times is defection from the true faith to heeding doctrines of demons. We see that occurring on an every increasing scale even among Christian teachers, churches, and books. There are the heretical books like The Shack that promote Universalism among other heresies and is so big that most Christian teachers and pastors will not dare touch this sacred cow. But for every book like The Shack there are hundreds that are even more heretical but not quite as big. Many Christian books stores are now half filled with every kind of heresy. And what do our Christian youth watch and read from secular sources? The twilight vampire series is now a big thing among young Christians. It used to by the Harry Potter series but even Christians can never seem to get enough of the occult. I guess the next big fad among Christians will be the Steve and Larry queer love tales. Now don’t ask me where to buy them. The story is still being inspired by a vampire that acquired AIDS through sucking Harry and Larry’s blood. Related posts1930′s socialists reincarnated to play in the 2010′s world war games.There are many parallels to the 1930′s today. History does repeat itself. It seems the socialists of the 1930′s have been reincarnated to play in the upcoming 2010′s world war games. In the 1930′s the world was heading into a decade of deep depression. All indicators are that in the 2010′s the world will see the same economic fate. In the 1930′s socialism was the big rising ideology. There were some differences between the various socialisms of the 1930′s but they all had many similarities as well, such as government having control over everyone and the redistributing wealth. There was the Hitler’s style, the Lenin/Stalin’s style, Mussolini’s Fascist style, Mao’s style and even FDR’s New Deal style. The world economic collapse of the 1930′s led all developed nations to look for answers in some sort of socialist government that would take from the rich and redistribute the wealth around (where have I heard that term?). But the various forms of socialism could not agree on some points and they learned to distrust each other. They played to the baser instincts of people looking for scapegoats for their own shortcomings. Like all good socialists their own self righteousness and their belief in the idealistic “cause” led to reporting anyone they thought was a threat to the utopian movement or its inspired leader. The gradual elimination of all opposition led to the rise of ruling tyrants with absolute powers who’s egos would bring the world to world war II. Now fast forward to 2010. There is a world economic downturn and it is repeating the same patterns of the 1930′s. After a sharp economic crash in both periods there was a brief recovery. The very brief recovery in the 1930′s was followed by a much sharper downturn with very high unemployment that lasted until the second world war. It now looks like we just had our brief recovery. All indications are that by late in this year or next we will have entered the second phase of the downturn that will last under the third world war. Socialism is again rising all over the developed world. Europe with its social welfare system and increasingly centralized union is very socialistic and now the United States under Obama has almost caught up with Europe in just 19 months. Latin America once again is seeing a rise in socialism. China gave up on pure communism but it retains all the state control of socialism, it actually is now Fascist. Russia likewise gave up on socialist Communism and is increasing becoming Fascist. Muslim nations of the world are either socialist Fascist theocracies or are socialists nations run by an elite Oligarchy. Even Africa is very socialist. Europe is the Fabian socialist model but it is now being choked by debt and high taxes. America has now radically turned toward socialism and now has a far left government that is rapidly increasing its control over everything and also rapidly increasing the size of government. America also will soon be choking on out of control debt. So the whole world is back to the 1930′s again and as economic conditions worsen the tyrants will certainly pop up with scapegoats and promises that the people want to hear. When government runs everything and there is nothing to check government you can be sure that tyranny is right on the horizon. In the 1930′s the Jews around the world were blamed for the economic conditions and that led to their persecution. In the 2010′s they will again be blamed again and the state of Israel will also become increasing isolated. At some point the Arab Muslims will attempt to cut off Israel from being a nation. True Christians that see a future and purpose for the state of Israel in God’s will and a return of the Jewish Messiah King to rule the earth will also come under persecution from these humanistic socialists. Socialists do not want to hear about God ruling on earth that would mean they would have to give up the sins they love so much. So here we are about to repeat history again because those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. The Church should be awake to these things but apparently most are asleep living in gospel lite Laodicea. Many of our church leaders have become useful idiots of the state just like the religious leaders in the time of Hitler. This article Pastors as Props, by Dave Welch gives us prime examples of those kind of leaders. Here is a clip of part of his article.
On the other hand, there are a few Christian leaders that are warning this nation. On the pentecostal side you have David Wilkerson’s message of warning and now one of the most respected teachers in evangelical Christianity used a July 4th message to warn this nation. Dr Charles Stanley warns of socialism, America’s departure from God and America’s departure from Israel. Here is a clip of that message
Dr. Stanley goes on in his speech calling for 140 days of prayer from Christians. It is a good call, and all pastor should take heed but how many Christians really will do it? And if they even do pray, what will they really be praying for? My bet is that most will be praying for more prosperity instead of national repentance. I found this rather good article about history repeating itself that fits what I am saying. It talks about a left fascist axis coming to power again now. here are a couple of clips from the article.
Related postsSoon after the third stimulus America will be living under a dictatorship.I have been saying all along that there will not be any real economic recovery any time soon. Now it looks like the markets have finally figured that out as well. By this fall unemployment will be rising again. When one third of the homes being sold in America are in foreclosure how in the world can people expect a real economic recovery? Here are just some of the things still coming down the pipeline this year and next. I think within a few years this will bring us under a dictatorship. Even a higher rate of home foreclosures – It looks like there will be a trillion dollar bail-out of Fannie and Freddy by American taxpayers. These two federalized corporations virtually own all the mortgages in America and taxpayers have to pay their losses (yes taxpayers are paying all the costs of all the loan defaults and the loan restructuring programs, not the banks). Bail-out of state and local governments – Federal taxpayers are going to be picking up the tab for the huge bureaucracies in the liberal states and cities that went broke because of all their socialist programs. Maybe you don’t like the socialism in California or New York? Tough! You will pay the costs of their huge government programs anyway. Commercial real estate is collapsing - That will cause many if not most local banks to fail. The FDIC will have to be bailed-out – The price will be hundreds of billions. The banks probably will be taken over by the too big to fail banks and we already know who pays the losses of those the government declares too big to fail. Unemployment and welfare benefits will be extended and extended – Taxpayers will keep picking up the many billions in costs for the unemployed and underemployed. That is not going away before a world war. The alternative is riots. The largest tax rise in the history of this country is due to go into effect in six months – What will that do to business if it actually takes place? I believe there will be a third stimulus. There is no real recovery and there is an election coming up in November If you remember, Bush had a stimulus then Obama had a much larger stimulus (besides massive government bailouts). That is why our budget is 1.5 trillion in the hole this year alone. But, my point is that I think there will be a third stimulus this fall. Politicians are not going to go into an election without offering people some hope for an economy recovery. So I expect that at least a $500 billion third stimulus will be passed before the election. Of course none of this is on budget so add up the additional costs that are not in the budget and then subtract the money they will not collect in revenue because there was no recovery like they projected in their budget. I would say the real government deficit next year is going to be about double what they projected, it will be about $3 trillion. That will bring the nation to a $16 trillion national debt by next fall and probably $20-25 trillion by 2015. There really are only two options from here on out. They cut spending and don’t further stimulate the economy and the nation goes into a deflationary depression. Or they stimulate the economy and try to kick the can down the road again. I think we know what choice they will make except this time that can is going to be kicked into a inflationary black hole. From whom will the U.S. borrow this new $3 trillion shortfall plus the interest coming due on our national debt? When the world sees our situation nobody is going to lend to us, besides they have grave economic problems of their own. So money will just have to be printed. That means the value of the dollar will drop like a rock and nations will start dumping dollars just to get rid of them before they devalue any further. That will just aggravate the dollar fall. (There are external factors here that could come into play so I cannot be sure it will play out that way. Much of the rest of the world could be heading into a real deflationary depression. In that case so we also could be dragged into a world trade war and see a deflationary depression along with debt defaults.) There will soon be wars in the Middle East and elsewhere that could radically change things in America and the world very quickly. When at war everything suddenly becomes a matter of national security and everyone obeys government. Government becomes a virtual dictatorship during a crises and you can be sure that crises’ are coming. Soon after the third stimulus the dollar either will collapse or there will have to be a world war. In either case, America will be living under a dictatorship by 2015 regardless of which political party wins in 2012. While we celibate our independence and our national freedoms this week let us also realize that freedom is not free, nor is it guaranteed to any nation whose God is not the Lord. Related posts Under Financial collapse, Politics, World War III, dangers | Taged america, economy, food for thought, freedoms and liberties, trends, World War III Worn out loafing around on the Internet in a tired world.I wanted to write a couple of new articles on something worth knowing this week but the chances of that seem to be getting slimmer all the time. Between comments, emails, website administration and modifications, keeping up with the news, shopping for food, yard work, a garden that is out of control, all my high mileage vehicles needing repair, my wife going on a mission trip, a birthday, spraying the fruit trees, taking care of the animals, doing bills, a holiday coming up, sleeping , etc. I find that there just are not enough hours in the day to get everything done. I am tired. When I was working full time for the government it seems I had plenty of time to do all kinds of loafing around but now that I am loafing around on the internet reading material and writing blogs I am totally exhausted. I just looked at the ISP logs for the last few months and they say I have been averaging over 300 hours each month on the Internet and I am only logged on the Internet when I am actually working on it. That’s over 70 hours a week on the Internet and that does not count all the computer stuff that I do off-line. So I will just make a couple of brief observations about items in the news and then maybe I can have some time to stare in a campfire this week and just loaf around listening to night sounds. There are now three carrier groups in the Gulf area as well as Israeli war vessels. Anytime we have that much fire power in the Gulf area a message is being sent to someone, or an attack is imminent. I do not think the United States is planning an attack right now or we would probably have another carrier group on the way, but who knows with all the bases we have around the area we might not need another one. More likely, we just know that things are going to deteriorate in the Middle East and we want to have enough fire power in place to prevent an attack on our own interests. I think Israel will soon be put in a position where she will have to respond to Iran. So this is just a heads up saying that a Middle East war is very likely this summer or fall. Our CIA said that Iran now has enough enriched uranium for two nuclear bombs. They think it will take one year to actually create those bombs and another year to develop a weapons system to deliver them. Israel is not going to wait for that to happen. Israel probably already knows that that it will not take Iran an additional year to deliver the bombs but the delivery of the nukes is not their main concern anyway they do not Iran to have a bomb at all. By the time Iran might make the two bombs they will have enough additional enriched uranium to make two more bombs. That would be four bombs too many in just one year if Iran actually attempts to build them. And that’s only what we know about. I do not doubt that there is much that we do not know about. Meanwhile, Iran continues to harden its nuclear facilities and greatly expanding development of more nuclear sites. What it comes down to is this: Israel knows it is running out of time to stop Iran from getting a nuclear bomb. So maybe Israel is just waiting for any good excuse to hit Iran. If one does not appear soon through the normal course of world events I am sure it will magically appear somehow. Well the well is still pumping in the gulf after 70 days. I read all kinds of crazy stuff about the Gulf blowing up and cities and all vegetation being destroyed for hundreds of miles inland. It has to make me wonder where all these people get all their education? Put one drop of oil in your in-ground swimming pool and you might have a comparable oil water ratio. As for a gas bubble blowing up under the ocean and creating a tidal wave that will wipe out coastal cities? Well that’s why people stay up all night listening to Coast-to Coast. The end of the world has been coming any day now in Dreamland for the last 15 years. The insomniacs and horror story fans just love the latest science fiction stories dreamed up by the usual unusual relentless tale spinners. Yeah, the gulf is a huge environmental mess and it will get worse but some dwelling in Dreamland need to get a grip, oil or no oil. The economy is heading for a real live crises for sure. I think we will be back in recession (actually depression) by this fall. Just look at the real estate data, the falling liquidity and the stock markets. Obama and the G20 or G8 have totally opposite views on what should be done to save the world economy. Europe thinks they should cut spending and debt and Obama thinks everyone should be increasing spending and going further in debt. Here is reality of the world’s problem. If everyone cuts output like Europe wants the world will go into a great depression like the 1930′s with very high unemployment and falling prices. If everyone spends beyond their means like Obama wants we will soon default on our debts and make paper money worthless. There really is no solution because the people in the nations are not willing to cut their living standers in half to pay for decades of spending beyond their means. Actually, there is a solution and that is for everyone in the world to default on their debts at the same time and for everyone to just start over without debt and then for all people to start living within their means. Of course that means almost everyone loses almost all of their investments and entitlements, but it is going to happen anyway. That is my update of this tired world. It is now time for me to do some real serious loafing around. Hopefully most of it will be somewhere besides the Internet. Related posts Under Financial collapse, Iran, Israel, dangers, environmentalism | Taged economy, Iran, Israel, obama |
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