What Cost a Billion 11/08/08

What Cost a Billion 11/08/08

700 Billion Dollars !. . Hmmm . . Seven hundred billion dollars! That’s the bail-out package. Just how much is 700 Hundred Billion? Well I recall, that at the time of Hurricane Katrina some number like 20 or 30 billion was offered by the president to pick up the pieces. Twenty billion to save a whole city! Well I might be off, but somehow that was the number I recall. I think that was also the number put forth to help out after 9/11. That’s a city and world history level terrorist event; 20 billion! Wasn’t 30 billion the number for the Iraq war? No maybe that was 300 Hundred Billion . . I think! Well even that represents a figure for a several year long war on the other side of the planet! But this in essence isn’t very tangible like those events have been. Seven Hundred Billion Dollars! I think the only number that comes to mind that tops that is the several TRILLION dollars of the US debt. But then that’s a number for the entire US economy, which only exceeds the 700 billion by a factor of 5 or 6. Seven Hundred Billion Dollars; I just can’t get over the enormity of that number. How in the world did an industry get to the point that the only thing that will help is a dollar amount of 700 Hundred Billion Dollars! Gosh, what is the combined wealth of the oil companies of our nation, I wonder? Seven Hundred Billion Dollars for what . . . “A PAPER CHASE!!” . . . Wouldn’t a cool 10 million, 100 million, 500 million, 1 billion .. even 10 billion help? No they need SEVEN HUNDRED ((( B ))) ILLION dollars to help them .. . . and IMMEDIATELY! . . . Wow!

I was listening to a local radio station, and several callers to the program brought up another plan. Though their math was off, they suggested giving that sum of money divided up to every tax paying person in our nation. My math says that would be roughly 700 billion divided up by 100 million or approximately $7000 each. Seven thousand dollars each to one hundred million people; that alone gives a sense of just how much money that is! Even to calculate that number I had to use the exponential key on my calculator; something I thought I had forgotten how to use. Wow . . Seven Hundred Billion Dollars . . That number speaks for itself!

Barrack Obama and the liberals 11/8/08

Barrack Obama and the liberals 11/8/08

Oh no, not the liberals? I like the comment I heard on the local progressive radio station: words to the effect, . . . “that’s it, the liberal democrat is in and now we’re all going to lose our guns, our god and be gay”! I think I’ve changed my own stance on whether I think the Republican Party “just has to get in”, for the sake of the Christian Right, to save the definition of marriage and the Right to Life. Thanks to George Bush who championed those positions while virtually running our nation and its perception around the world into the ground, I no longer look to Washington to legislate morality. We need a president for all groups, and let God work out the issues of conscience. We need a president with depth of character and intelligence, not someone who guarantees that a couple of pet issues are supported “OUR” way. It takes guts to allow God to be God!

Listening, “as well” to a local Christian radio station, I was put off by the general opinion that the broadcasting Christian leaders were despairing that they just couldn’t vote in favor of a so-called African American candidate, as much as they celebrate the notion that such is an achievement for our nation, because Barrack is liberal and stands counter to the Christian agenda. I say have some courage! Our God is much much bigger than that! Again, we need a president for all groups! They shouldn’t have been praying that the conservative Republican gets in, rather that they work harder to raise awareness to the issues of conscience. The debate of the unborn and the perspective of what it is to be married have ecclesiastical connotation, and government doesn’t legislate morality, it only ensures that all groups are allowed representation as long as individual rights are not demeaned. Our nation allows groups to worship satan, hate blacks and exalt Hitler, as long as certain lines of civility are not crossed. The Christian right needs more faith in what they espouse by showing that they’re not overly dependent on politicians to champion their cause. Church history in a sense is repeating itself again, as the debate as to whether Christians should be active and aggressively involved in politics is an old one, that’s brought about a split in the church and new denominations a time ago. Take heart I say, that a seemingly intelligent articulate al-be-it liberal candidate has won over the Conservative Right’s fear-based extremism. The morality issues will not go away, and ultimately if they do, God can deal with that as well. Remember Sodom and Gomorah!