Posted on 08/07/2014 3:47:33 AM PDT by DH
Conundrum
--------------------------------------------------------- Free people are not equal. Equal people are not free.
"A gun is like a parachute. If you need one, and don't have one, you'll probably never need one again."
The definition of the word "Conundrum" is: something that is puzzling or confusing.
Here are six Conundrums of socialism in the United States of America:
1. America is capitalist and greedy - yet half of the population is subsidized.
2. Half of the population is subsidized - yet they think they are victims.
3. They think they are victims - yet their representatives run the government.
4. Their representatives run the government - yet the poor keep getting poorer.
5. The poor keep getting poorer - yet they have things that people in other countries only dream about.
6. They have things that people in other countries only dream about - yet they want America to be more like those other countries.
Think about it! And that, my friends, pretty much sums up the USA in the 21st Century.
Makes you wonder who is doing the math.
These three, short sentences tell you a lot about the direction of our current government and cultural environment:
1. We are advised to NOT judge ALL Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics, but we are encouraged to judge ALL gun owners by the actions of a few lunatics.
Funny how that works. And here's another one worth considering...
2. Seems we constantly hear about how Social Security is going to run out of money. But we never hear about welfare or food stamps running out of money? What's interesting is the first group "worked for" their money, but the second didn't.
Think about it.....and Last but not least,
3. Why are we cutting benefits for our veterans, no pay raises for our military and cutting our army to a level lower than before WWII, but we are not stopping the payments or benefits to illegal aliens.
Everyone should read it and try to make sense of it.
Good e-mail and it makes total sense.
I do take somewhat of an exception to “But we never hear about welfare or food stamps running out of money? What’s interesting is the first group “worked for” their money, but the second didn’t.”
There are people who have worked hard and paid their taxes, but find themselves in need of assistance because of the economy or health issues. I do not begrudge these people food stamps or “welfare”. I do resent those who make it their career choice who are perfectly capable of earning a living.
In your estimation: What percentage of those on welfare are their by no fault of their own...and I mean “NO FAULT OF THEIR OWN?”
Sorry. There = Their.
Bump
Welcome to Acirema, where the guilty are rewarded and the innocent are punished.
RIP United States and the republic for which it stands.
Is your flag upside down yet? If not, why? If not, when?
The truth is simple. Thanks for posting this.
Good question. Of course I have no way of knowing. I do know that in my grandparents’ day there were no food stamps or welfare and people survived. And my father-in-law, who just turned 80, tells of killing squirrels and small game and fishing and growing their own vegetables to get by.
Self-sufficiency is a lost art in America. I admit to not being very self-sufficient.
Context? Where? When? Who? Why?
These are pictures from what might have been your grand father or perhaps great grandfather's day. The city soup lines were the equivalent of today's food welfare.
Maybe for city folk but not country folk.
The coming of the lawless one is apparent in the working of Satan, who uses all power, signs, lying wonders, and every kind of wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.In other words:For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion, leading them to believe what is false, so that all who have not believed the truth but took pleasure in unrighteousness will be condemned.
"Whom God wishes to destroy he first makes mad."
~Seneca
So, that email helps me with my conundrum and to recognize US and perhaps the calendar in this from 2 Timothy 3:
You must understand this, that in the last days distressing times will come. For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, inhuman, implacable, slanderers, profligates, brutes, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to the outward form of godliness but denying its power.Sanctified by US law and taxpayer financed!
People had more than they needed,
people didn't know what was precious and what wasn't,
people threw away things they kill each other for now.
- the Book of Eli
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