Tuesday, November 27, 2007
CHANGES ARE COMING
There are changes in the wind! Changes are coming! Hallelujah!
Some day soon we may be able to fly our flag in front of our home or business without signifying we are republicans supporting Bush’s war. Soon we may be able to wear a flag button on our lapels again, just to signify our patriotism, and escape the taint of being labeled a republican war supporter.
Perhaps we will soon be able to profess being a Christian without having a political pall cast over us. Maybe we can even be a Baptist again without pledging to a right wing political agenda.
There signs that the nation is awakening. The scandal soaked hypocrites in Washington, and the amoral, incompetent, and sometimes criminal Bush administration are finally becoming recognized as such. They are not fooling so many now.
People are recognizing there is little either patriotic or Christian about this war in Iraq, nor in the way it was sold to Americans and the world. Christians are recognizing that there is little that is Christian about fleecing the working class and starving the poor while the rich prosper.
Americans are recognizing that taking care of the poor, the widows, the orphans, the sick, the elderly, and the tragedy-stricken are acts of Christian charity, even when such acts are initiated and sponsored by democrats in government.
Christians are recognizing the there are more than two moral issues at stake in elections. Morality is broader than issues about gay unions or women’s rights to privacy and personal freedom.
Sick children without health insurance do not set well with good Christian Americans. The idea of the government taxing billionaires at a lower rate than their office staff is repulsive to the average American.
Most people think it is high time big business took a back seat to safety issues. They think that our government regulators ought to work for them, and that imports from offending nations should be cut off.
Conservatives don’t like budget deficits, trade deficits, and mounting national debt. Most are adverse toward foreign spending when Americans are in need of assistance with basic needs like health insurance.
American workers dislike their union wage industries being shipped off to some other part of the world. They are tired of technically educated personnel being imported from India to take the best jobs, tired of outsourcing good jobs beyond our borders, and tired of illegal labor from Mexico flooding in to take American jobs for lower wages.
It seems downright goofy to Americans for their own government to be outsourcing security-sensitive contracts to foreign companies. Most think the government should “buy American” with tax money.
People are tired of tax dodges for business income, and for the wealthy, while they pay their part by withholding from earnings at a job.
People in America are ready for changes, and both political parties had better start tuning in to the people.
Dr. Edwin E. Vineyard, AKA The Militant Moderate
Some day soon we may be able to fly our flag in front of our home or business without signifying we are republicans supporting Bush’s war. Soon we may be able to wear a flag button on our lapels again, just to signify our patriotism, and escape the taint of being labeled a republican war supporter.
Perhaps we will soon be able to profess being a Christian without having a political pall cast over us. Maybe we can even be a Baptist again without pledging to a right wing political agenda.
There signs that the nation is awakening. The scandal soaked hypocrites in Washington, and the amoral, incompetent, and sometimes criminal Bush administration are finally becoming recognized as such. They are not fooling so many now.
People are recognizing there is little either patriotic or Christian about this war in Iraq, nor in the way it was sold to Americans and the world. Christians are recognizing that there is little that is Christian about fleecing the working class and starving the poor while the rich prosper.
Americans are recognizing that taking care of the poor, the widows, the orphans, the sick, the elderly, and the tragedy-stricken are acts of Christian charity, even when such acts are initiated and sponsored by democrats in government.
Christians are recognizing the there are more than two moral issues at stake in elections. Morality is broader than issues about gay unions or women’s rights to privacy and personal freedom.
Sick children without health insurance do not set well with good Christian Americans. The idea of the government taxing billionaires at a lower rate than their office staff is repulsive to the average American.
Most people think it is high time big business took a back seat to safety issues. They think that our government regulators ought to work for them, and that imports from offending nations should be cut off.
Conservatives don’t like budget deficits, trade deficits, and mounting national debt. Most are adverse toward foreign spending when Americans are in need of assistance with basic needs like health insurance.
American workers dislike their union wage industries being shipped off to some other part of the world. They are tired of technically educated personnel being imported from India to take the best jobs, tired of outsourcing good jobs beyond our borders, and tired of illegal labor from Mexico flooding in to take American jobs for lower wages.
It seems downright goofy to Americans for their own government to be outsourcing security-sensitive contracts to foreign companies. Most think the government should “buy American” with tax money.
People are tired of tax dodges for business income, and for the wealthy, while they pay their part by withholding from earnings at a job.
People in America are ready for changes, and both political parties had better start tuning in to the people.
Dr. Edwin E. Vineyard, AKA The Militant Moderate
