Today's most popular economic crap shoot is in the housing business. Investors hope to make a quick few hundred thousand "rolling over" a home that's gone up fifty percent in value in a few short years. They figure even if they can't really afford it, all those worries are off in the future and with today's juicy sub prime real estate loans, they can have gratification right now. Some of these investors trade houses the way kids trade baseball cards. You only have a small monthly payment untill rates get hiked down the road. It sounds almost too good to be true. And sadly for a lot of people it isn't true. They may even be middle class home owners but they too get sucked into the trap and then one of them loses their job. Then they discover that sadly their house and its equity doesn't amount to near as much as they thought it did. Once people start going bust there is a flood of homes on the market. That's great for the "bottom dwellers" picking up a home cheap at a reposession sale. But with the flood of homes on the market prices drop further and pretty soon you've got a negative spiral going. This is what's got the stock market so jitterey right now and why we said to sell at the beginning of August. The market dropped 387 points yesterday and it was down a hundred points more today when apparently the Federal Reserve stepped in and pumped money into the economy. But now Hillary Clinton wants to bail out all the investors who took part in these cheap loans, letting them off the hook. In my book this is a really bad idea. Part of our problem is that we don't believe, as Rush Limbaugh says, that Actions Have Consequences. People must live with the consequences of their act to keep society in karmic ballance. In China they talk about this a lot. That is, the idea of things such as good and evil being in their proper place and the fung chue being in proper ballance. Good acts should translate to rewards and bad acts should translate to punishment. People need to face the consequences of their economic quick money crap shoots. Investors should not come to expect the magic hand of government bailing them out, the way Hillary Clinton wants to do. After all, what does that make government is not a partaker in their folly. It will only compound the problem further down the line the way misappropiation of funds in the Iraq War by the Bush adminestration is a consequence that needs to be faced. I repeat that if our economic woes are not faced now they will only compound and get worse later. I agree with many things Larry Elder was talking about the other day when he was on one of his "Victocrats" rants. Black and other raced women are not married to their husbands, they're married to the State. The State is their "big daddy". I don't know if Larry Elder's statistics on black illigitamate births are correct or not. I pray to God he is wrong. But however many there are, if more people had respect for the sanctity of marriage we'd have a lot fewer economic problems for government to work with. The same goes for doctors. It used to be that being a doctor meant you were in a giving, caring profession. People had a relation of trust with their doctor and the patients believed what he told them. Now you have all the insurance companies gobbling up all the money and forcing doctors to make decisions about their patients they would not otherwise make. And many want the government to pay the bill while the drug companies make most of the profits. I'm glad to hear that pattents will be expiring on a lot of popular drugs in the next five years. Welfare and health care are two areas of expenditure the federal government has no business in. It disturbs me that one of our two political party's biggest goals is to increase the Welfare state by continuing to pour money down the twin rat holes of welfare and health care. What happened to the work ethic? If we had more of a work ethic we would not be trying to make a fast buck all the time and to somehow "cheat the system". Were this another century the people here along with myself would all have "make work" jobs during the day with overlords watching what we do. This would be to "build our character" that we would be doing things like perhaps installing new sprinkler pipes or paint the building, over and over again. Some would say, "Isn't a man entitled to his leisure?" Well, a lot of people retire at age fifty five and then continue to rake in money for the next 25 or 30 years. That's too much.
As you know I have reconfirmed my dedication to Christianity. I have officially rejoined myself to the family of God. You look around and even in Lex Luther's wedding last night, I bet it was a Christian wedding where they say "Till death do us part". Marriage is the great obcession of so many soap operas and movies. Even jerks like Gary call themselves a Christian and talk about reading their Bible. I never fault reading the Bible. A lot of things Marcus has said to me about true spirituality have made me stop and thing. Few people on the planet are athiests. It's lonely out there. All of the people who run this place are devout Christians, and I praise the Lord that given my dire economic straits I have a place to live. Sometimes it's possible to conduct a one man war with God and in the end you are the big loser because there isn't even an enemy, that is, except yourself. "Financing" that war can put an emotional strain on you. Dennis Prager has stated that true Forgiveness can come only after repentance. But if another person wrongs you it's their karmic problem and not yours. It isn't your problem unless you make it yours. Leave the other person to God and trust in him. But in order to trust him you first have to believe him and that's kind of been my problem. Many times Glen has tried to "fellowship" with me but there was a wall between us in our quest to Praise the Lord. Why not break down that wall so that both you and your spiritual brother can together fellowship in the Lord?
There's one more question from the audience we forgot to get to in the previous posting. Some of you who actually read my postings are saying "You say that you were suicidal at one point and you said you were doing a saga over four files of talking (or arguing) with God after apparently having tried to commit suicide. What was your problem?" That's simple. Do you remember that woman Marie who had the two young daughters? I think I talk about this in the "Straight Talk" posting in Cosmic Tides in May of 2006. Well, as I saw my relation slip away from Marie I became mad at myself even though probably it was my fault. I hated Christianity because she was a more devout Christian than I was and I resented that.
Even good people may not be as lilly pure as they think they are. Both Hezekiah and Josiah were referred to as "good Kings of Judah" in the Bible. Yet both had an achiles heel. In the case of Hezekiah he fell ill one day and the Lord told the King to get his affairs in order because he was going to die. Hezekiah prayed and moaned for it not to be his time to go and so the Lord let him live. In the course of time Hezekiah showed an enemy from Babylon all the glories of the Temple in Jerusalem, that is all the sacred and expensive solid gold vessles. Never let your enemy see your greatest strength. There is a certain power in secrets. Jim Cooper said that. In the case of King Josiah he was known as the leader of a national spiritual revival, and he was kind of the Ronald Reagan of his time. And yet this was in retrospect a revival with no depth and it didn't last long enough to save Isrial, just as in my book I said that the spiritual revival we were in in 1980 would probably not be enough to save us. So one day Josiah went into battle. This is a noble thing for a King to do after all. That's what Kings used to do in the old days. So he went out and he was mortally wounded by an arrow that was not meant for him. If I remember my scripture some guy on the enemy flank just fired an arrow at random and it hit the King and mortally wounded him. The King Josiah was taken by charriot from the front but it was too late and he died. As it is often said, "The Lord works in mysterious ways" (Selah)
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