Friday, March 14, 2014

The Curse of Idleness

In the New Testament Matthew (20:6) wrote and about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them Why stand ye here all the day idle? Isn’t that a piercing question Christ posed? Later in the New Testament Timothy (1-5:13) writes and withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not. Interesting observation.
In America today we have become a nation of idlers, where we were once a nation leading the world in innovation and productivity. Doubt that? Consider in the past five yard we have spent $3.7 trillion on welfare. According to the Senate Budget Committee, the total welfare spending during the Obama years is five times greater than the governments total spending on education, transportation and NASA combined.
Mr. Obama’s proclamation that he would ‘fundamentally transform America’ is well in process. He is transforming it into a welfare state, a socialist state, those who put him in power want. The Congressional Budget Office has projected that with current programs, welfare spending will rise at a rate of 80% over the next ten years. That’s another $11 trillion over that period of time. All this comes at a time when our nation is getting older, with nearly 100 million Americans no longer in the workforce and 50% of Americans pay no income tax at all.
We have sadly become a nation of idlers. As a nation founded on a profound belief in a God in Heaven, our God cannot be happy. When Matthew and Timothy wrote Christ’s words so many years ago, He made his expectations clear … work for your keep. We cannot continue on the path we are headed. The number of Americans receiving some sort of federal aid has increased 61% since the year 2000. I wasn’t a math whiz in school but this math I can do. Crash.
American cannot continue to be a nation of idlers. We cannot continue our slide into socialism. But we are …



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