Hi Consecrated Life
An economy is a huge machine. Like a great ship, it doesn't turn on a dime. It also doesn't always turn in ways that we like. Consider that it's the spending power of an entire nation of 300 million people. As I've been trying to explain, inflationary periods come and go, and they have for centuries. Sometimes they can only affect one nation, but as we grow into a larger and larger global economy, such events can be spread globally, as this period does seem to be.
However, by the numbers that are used by most nations to measure the growth and productivity of our economy, we're doing alright. Yes, it hurts as we pass through it for many. Especially those on the lower rungs of the income ladder. Speaking only for me and my situation, God has blessed me with enough. And that's all I have ever asked for. It's what I taught my son to appreciate. I've told him ever since his high school days when he began moving into being his own man and starting out to live his life that I would never seek for him to be rich, but that he be blessed of the Lord to have enough. Financially, I'm fine as prices rise. Yes, it costs me a bit more to live, just as yourself, but God continues to provide.
Now, maybe someday the bottom will completely fall out from under us. I will still be satisfied with what God blesses me with in that day, too. My working years are over. Thankfully, through some wise investing and the government's provision of SS, I have enough. Out of that 'enough' I tithe each week. I do some volunteer work. I give to try and help to alleviate the suffering of the poor.
But I can tell you this. I don't see the former guy as the answer to our ills. Either economically or socially, or in any other metric that might matter in running the nation. He's just a very, very mean person. Hateful to most everyone who doesn't agree with him. And honestly, he's not smart, he's mean. He has all of his life bullied people through the use of our legal system. And as the present situation seems to show, he leaves pain and suffering in his wake in just about anyone's life that touches his. That's the beginning of a totalitarian government and that's not the kind of government that I would choose, by my vote, to live under. I don't want to even allow such a governmental system a foothold, so there is really no way that I would ever vote for him.
But you are your own person and you obviously have a different worldview of 'how' things work. Your choices come out of your worldview. That's ok for you, but I think it's wrong headed. And when, as we've discussed before, I read most of your posts, you do seem to operate under a similar worldview to what the former president's worldview is. You constantly berate and belittle people with name calling to show your superiority over their supposed, by you , stupidity just as he does. I don't want to live that life.
God bless you,
Ted
An economy is a huge machine. Like a great ship, it doesn't turn on a dime. It also doesn't always turn in ways that we like. Consider that it's the spending power of an entire nation of 300 million people. As I've been trying to explain, inflationary periods come and go, and they have for centuries. Sometimes they can only affect one nation, but as we grow into a larger and larger global economy, such events can be spread globally, as this period does seem to be.
However, by the numbers that are used by most nations to measure the growth and productivity of our economy, we're doing alright. Yes, it hurts as we pass through it for many. Especially those on the lower rungs of the income ladder. Speaking only for me and my situation, God has blessed me with enough. And that's all I have ever asked for. It's what I taught my son to appreciate. I've told him ever since his high school days when he began moving into being his own man and starting out to live his life that I would never seek for him to be rich, but that he be blessed of the Lord to have enough. Financially, I'm fine as prices rise. Yes, it costs me a bit more to live, just as yourself, but God continues to provide.
Now, maybe someday the bottom will completely fall out from under us. I will still be satisfied with what God blesses me with in that day, too. My working years are over. Thankfully, through some wise investing and the government's provision of SS, I have enough. Out of that 'enough' I tithe each week. I do some volunteer work. I give to try and help to alleviate the suffering of the poor.
But I can tell you this. I don't see the former guy as the answer to our ills. Either economically or socially, or in any other metric that might matter in running the nation. He's just a very, very mean person. Hateful to most everyone who doesn't agree with him. And honestly, he's not smart, he's mean. He has all of his life bullied people through the use of our legal system. And as the present situation seems to show, he leaves pain and suffering in his wake in just about anyone's life that touches his. That's the beginning of a totalitarian government and that's not the kind of government that I would choose, by my vote, to live under. I don't want to even allow such a governmental system a foothold, so there is really no way that I would ever vote for him.
But you are your own person and you obviously have a different worldview of 'how' things work. Your choices come out of your worldview. That's ok for you, but I think it's wrong headed. And when, as we've discussed before, I read most of your posts, you do seem to operate under a similar worldview to what the former president's worldview is. You constantly berate and belittle people with name calling to show your superiority over their supposed, by you , stupidity just as he does. I don't want to live that life.
God bless you,
Ted