Does God Play a Role in the Failing U.S. Economy?
So, let’s turn to Me… Ich… Yo… Moi…
What is My fault? There are some basic laws that govern all my creations… and some rules of the road, “traffic lights,” as you call them.
Nobody gets out alive, for example. It doesn’t matter what you do or what you think. And you can’t get something for nothing.
And whether you call it “democracy” or armed robbery, ripping people off is not a good idea.
And you can’t just print up “money” and pretend it’s real wealth.
Yes… I imposed “limits.”
You can’t spend more than you earn – not for long. You can’t beat a royal flush with a pair of eights.
And if you’re over 70 and you try to act like a 25-year-old, you’ll make a fool of yourself.
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God’s Role in a Failing U.S. Economy, Part II
But politics has always been a temptation. Man uses it to get other peoples’ money… or just to get power over them. King David, for example, used his political power to sleep with another man’s wife.
Slavery… wars… pogroms… gulags… hyperinflation… everything from the Akkadian conquests to the War on Drugs – all come from politics. Some people think they’re getting away with something… others think they are building a world even better than the one I gave them…
And then, it all goes bad.
That, of course, is what is happening in the USA today. And everybody knows it.
Spending money you don’t have. Printing up fake money to cover your deficits. Bullying foreigners with wars and sanctions. And forcing your own fellow citizens to submit to the latest political fads.
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God’s Role in a Failing U.S. Economy, Part III
We’ve mostly been talking about soft limits. Empires fail, for example, but they don’t fail on their own. You can make a mess of your own life, all by yourself. But bringing down an empire… that requires leadership.
In that respect, America seems especially lucky. She found four of the biggest jackasses in the country to help grease the skids.
Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden. I created them all. But you voted for them. And they were perfect for the job; the kind of “useful idiots” that history needs.
Bush spent $8 trillion on his dumbass War on Terror.
Obama added another $9 trillion to the U.S. debt pile bailing out Wall Street after the mortgage financing bubble burst.
Then, along came Trump. In a way, he was the worst of the lot. Not only did he add another $8 trillion in debt, he discredited the only thing that might stop the collapse – intelligent, clear-headed conservativism.
Now, in the U.S., if you call yourself a “conservative,” people think you must wear buffalo horns.
And now Biden. Geez… really?
Drive people into opposing camps… get them fighting over removing statues and sex change operations for children… keep real interest rates below zero (even during a boom)… add trillions more to the debt… and talk up war with China – is there a worse formula for a declining empire?
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God’s Role in a Failing U.S. Economy, Part IV
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God’s Testimony Adjourns
Besides, Facebook, Google, Apple, Netflix – they proved not to be ways to increase output… but ways to waste time on idle entertainment, unimportant “data,” and jackass opinions.
Want to know what’s up with Khloe Kardashian? No? I don’t either. But millions of your fellow citizens spend almost their entire days just keeping up with the Kardashians and other low-lifes.
There’s a big difference between the Industrial Revolution and the so-called Info Tech Revolution.
Fossil fuels increased your ability to make and transport things. That is, they increased your ability to add wealth. (They also increased your ability to destroy wealth. But that’s another story.)
But does broadband increase your wealth? Not really; it only passes around what we already know.
Facebook, Google, Twitter, et al. make their money by capturing people’s attention… and then, like newspapers and magazines… they sell the connection to advertisers. There is no new wealth created. It is really just a big shift of advertising money from print to electronic media.
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