No power for the hour

California land of sunshine, great weather, and big spenders just experienced another setback. The Crystal Cathedral founded in Garden Grove California in the 1950’s by Robert Shuller and now pastored by his daughter just filed bankruptcy against $42 million in debt. The “Hour of Power” just dimmed considerably.

I wonder if something’s in the water in California that makes the people out there spend money they don’t have. The state is nearly bankrupt as are many of the municipalities and businesses. I wonder if President Obama and his band of free spending Democrats in congress led by Californian Nancy Pelosi are drinking it by the case, because the United States is so far in debt now we might not recover in a lifetime and yet they want to spend even more.

So what to do? First let’s take a look at the budget. Oops congress didn’t get around to passing a budget last year.

WHAT?

How can we cut expenditures without a budget?

Hmmm Not one person in President Obama’s entire administration has run a business, but all these community organizers, Harvard professors, career politicians, lawyers, and government bureaucrats tell us that the answer lies in spending another trillion or so and not in creating balanced budgets.

Yikes, we are being told that we should spend MORE money instead of preparing a balanced budget and living within our means. Sounds like a plan for financial disaster, but my opinion doesn’t count, because I’m part of the problem. I’m just a lowly entrepreneur and greedy businessman capitalist pig CEO exploiting the masses by creating jobs in order to enrich myself at everyone’s expense.

The Bible has much to say about this subject, but please allow me to sum it up. Members of society should work. (I hope that doesn’t scare anyone). Check out Proverbs:

All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty” (1:23).
“Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth. He who gathers crops in the summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son” (10:4,5).
“One who is slack in his work is a close relative of one who destroys” (18:9).
“Sluggards do not plow in season; so at harvest time they look but find nothing” (20:4).
“The cravings of sluggards will be the death of them, because their hands refuse to work” (21:25).
“I went past the field of a sluggard, past the vineyard of someone who has no sense; thorns had come up everywhere, the ground was covered with weeds, and the stone wall was in ruins. I applied my heart to what I observed and learned a lesson from what I saw: A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest–and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man” (24:30-34).

Does this sound like we need to create a welfare state instead of a nation of working people?

1 Timothy 5:8 says that anyone who does not take care of his own family “has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.” In Proverbs we’re also told that, “A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children” (13:22). In order to leave an inheritance, not just to our own children, but to our children’s children requires work, discipline, investing, planning, saving up our money and voting for like minded people.

I sincerely believe that it has never been more vital to the survival of our country as now to vote in the election in just a couple of weeks. Don’t skip this event. Vote those who are reckless with our money out of office and vote in some folks who will balance the budget. Do it for your children and grandchildren!

Proverbs 22:7
“…the borrower is slave to the lender.”