So ends one of the bloodiest and mad dictators of the last 50 years.
He was for most of his life out of his mind - a truly nut-case of huge proportions. He like billions of others never knew Jesus Christ or the Bible per se. He like the other billions will be resurrected in the Great White Throne Judgment, and will have the Spirit of God clean up his mind, will have the Bible opened to him, and will so be given a chance to REPENT of his sins, and yes have his chance to accept Jesus as his personal Savior and accept the way into the Kingdom of God.
The Plan of God is such that death to the Lord is not as we look upon death, for the Eternal is able to resurrect those who die, and He is able to clean and open up their mind to His word and truths, and so give them a chance for salvation. That is the WONDERFUL news of this Last Great Feast Day!!
NOW WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE ONCE MIGHTY USA. WELL I'LL LET THE WRITER MARK STEYN TELL YOU:
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FIDDLING WHILE ROME BURNS MONEY
Of all the many marvelous Ronald Reagan lines, this is my favorite:
We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around.
He said it in his inaugural address in 1981, and, despite a Democratcontrolled Congress, he lived it. It sums up his legacy abroad: across postCommunist Europe, from Slovenia to Bulgaria to Lithuania, governments that had nations were replaced by nations that have governments.
Today, in Reagan's own country, we are atrophying into a government that has a nation.
In the eighteen months after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, over seven million Americans lost their jobs, yet the number of federal bureaucrats earning $100,000 or more went up from 14 percent to 19 percent. An economic downturn for you, but not for them. They're upturn girls living in a downturn world. At the start of the "downturn," the Department of Transportation had just one employee earning more than $170,000 per year. Eighteen months later, it had 1,690. In the year after the passage of Obama's "stimulus," the private sector lost 2.5 million jobs, but the federal bureaucracy gained 416,000. Even if one accepts the government's ludicrous concept of "creating or saving" jobs, by its own figures four out of every five "created or saved" jobs were government jobs. "Stimulus" stimulates government, not the economy. It's part of the remorseless governmentalization of American life.
What sort of jobs were "created or saved"? Well, the United States Bureau of the Public Debt is headquartered in Parkersburg, West Virginiaand it's hiring! According to the Careers page of their website: "The Bureau of the Public Debt (BPD) is one of the best places to work in the federal government. When you work for BPD, you're a part of one of the federal government's most dynamic agencies."
I'm sure. They're committed to a working environment of "Information, Informality, Integrity, Inclusion & Individual Respect." In the land of the blind, the five-I'd bureaucrat is king. Alas, no room on the motto for the sixth I (Insolvency). At some point in the near future, Big Government will have reached its state of theoretical perfection and all revenues will be going either to interest payments to China or to lavish pensions liabilities for retired officials of the Bureau of Public Debt.
When the subject of the leviathan comes up, the media and other statism groupies tend to say, "Oh, well, it's easy to talk about cutting government spending, until you start looking at individual programs, most of which tend to be very popular."
"Programs" is a sly word. Regardless of the merits of the "program," it requires human beings to run it. And government humans cost more than private humans. In 2009, the average civilian employee of the United States government earned $81,258 in salary plus $41,791 in benefits. Total: $123,049.
The average American employed in the private sector earned $50,462 in salary plus $10,589 in benefits. Total: $61,051.
So the federal worker earns more than twice as much as the private sector worker. Plus he has greater job security: he's harder to fire, or even to persuade to take a small pay cut.
Experts talk about the difficulty of restructuring entitlement programs, or of carving out a few billions in savings here and there. But here's a thought experiment: imagine if federal workers made the same as the private workers who pay their salaries. Imagine if they had to get by on 61K instead of 123 grand.
Ah, but such fancies dwell purely in the Land of Imagination. In theory, Americans govern themselves through elected representatives. In practice, the political class are no longer the citizen-legislators of a self-governing republic but instead the plump, pampered Emirs of Incumbistan. Hawaii's Daniel Inouye has been in Congress as long as the islands have been a state, which means he's been in office longer than the world's longest-running dictators-for-life. Lest comparisons with Colonel Gaddafi seem a little unkind, Inouye has been in Washington almost as long as the five monarchs of the Kamehameha dynasty ruled over a unified kingdom of Hawaii. If that's what Hawaiians are looking for in a political system, why bother overthrowing Queen Lili'uokalani? John Dingell Jr. has been a Michigan congressman since 1955. For the twenty-two years before that, his constituents were represented by John Dingell Sr. Between the first Duke of Dingell and the second, the Dingell family has held the seat for a third of the republic's history. If that's what Michiganders are looking for in a political system, why not stick with the House of Lords?
The late Robert C. Byrd sat in the Senate for half-a-century while the world transformed, and strung along: a former Klan leader ("Exalted Cyclops") and recruiter ("Kleagle") who opposed civil rights, he ended his days as a hero to Moveon.org for opposing the war on terror. He doesn't seem to have been a principled Klansman or a principled Moveon.orgiast. He simply moved on as required. You gotta know when to change the sheets. He did what was necessary to maintain himself in power. Everything in West Virginia apart from the Bureau of Public Debt and the Klan lodge is named after him. When he turned against the war in Afghanistan in 2002, I suggested that maybe if we agreed to rename the place Robert C. Byrdistan, he might see his way to staying onside for a couple more months. (I'm still in favor of that: his view of power was no less primitively tribal and venal than your average Pushtun village headman's.) Apart from naming more public buildings after himself than your average Latin American caudillo would, what else did Byrd accomplish in his "public service"? What do Michiganders have to show for the Dingell dynasty's four-fifths of a century in office? Opponents should simply put up graphs showing the debt when Inouye and the rest were elected, and what it is now.
Charlie Rangel has been there since 1970. Even his car has been there a long time. Apparently in Congress you're not meant to keep a vehicle in the House parking garage for more than six weeks without moving it. Rangel parked his Mercedes in one of the most "highly coveted" spaces in 2003, put a tarp on it, and left it there for six years." If only we could have done that with him and the rest of the legislative class. The chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means committee, Rangel was the man who wrote the nation's tax laws yet did not consider himself bound by them. So, for example, he had a rental property in the Dominican Republic but did not declare the income he received from it. Good for him. Would you like to have a rental property in a foreign jurisdiction and keep all the dough to yourself? Too bad. If you were to do it, there wouldn't be enough money to maintain our rulers in the style to which they've become accustomed. Rangel isn't rich by congressional standards, but he is in the happy position of so many people one encounters in "public service" who rarely if ever have cause to write a personal check. After the congressman's grotesque selfpitying ululations on the House floor for the injustice of being "censured" for his conduct, Kerry Picket of the Washington Times invited him to imagine what punishment the "average American citizen" would have received had he done what Rangel did. "Please," the congressman told her. "I don't deal in average American citizens."
If only. Pete Stark has been in the House of Representatives since 1973. For all those decades, he has sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States. What's in there? Let Pete explain it. In 2010, running for his nineteenth term in Congress, Stark was asked about the constitutionality of ObamaCare. He replied: "I think there are very few constitutional limits that would prevent the federal government from rules that could affect your private life "
His lady questioner wanted to be sure she'd understood: "Is your answer that they can do anything?"
Stark responded: "The federal government, yes, can do most anything in this country:"
He's right. If the Commerce Clause can be stretched to require you to make arrangements for your health care that meet the approval of the national government, then the republic is dead.
What's the very least that we're entitled to expect of our legislators? That they know what they're legislating. John Conyers has been in the House of Representatives since 1965. Like most representatives, he didn't bother reading the 3,000-page health-care bill he voted for, because, as he said with disarming honesty, he wouldn't understand it even if he did: "I love these members, they get up and say, "Read the bill," sighed Congressman Conyers. "What good is reading the bill if it's a thousand pages and you don't have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?"
Okay, so it would be unreasonable to expect a legislator to know what it is he's actually legislating into law. He's got wall-to-wall aides to do that for him. When you're rejiggering more than one-sixth of the economy and incurring massive future debt, that's the sort of minor task you can outsource to a flunkey. It would be churlish to direct readers to the video posted on the Internet of Representative Conyers finding time to peruse a copy of Playboy while on a commuter flight to Detroit. Perhaps if the ObamaCare bill had had a centerfold of Kathleen Sebelius on page 1,872, or maybe a "Girls of the Health & Human Services Death Panel" pictorial.
Two-thousand-page bills, unread and indeed unwritten at the time of passage, are the death of representative government. They also provide a clue as to why, in a country this large, national government should be minimal and constrained. Even if you doubled or trebled the size of the legislature, the Conyers plea would still hold: no individual can read these bills and understand what he's voting on. That's why the bulk of these responsibilities should be left to states and subsidiary jurisdictions, which can legislate on such matters at readable length and in comprehensible language.
But there's a more basic objection: Conyers is correct. He doesn't need to read the bill because he is no longer a maker of law. Law rests on the principle of equality before it. When a bill is two thousand pages, there's no equality: instead, there's a hierarchy of privilege. One state is treated differently from another, out of raw political necessity. For ObamaCare, Nebraska got a "Cornhusker Kickback," but there was no "Granite State Graft" for New Hampshire, because there was no political need for one. Some citizens (i.e., members of powerful unions and approved identity groups) are treated differently from other citizens (i.e., you). It's not a law so much as a Forbes 500 List, a hit parade of who's most plugged in to who matters in Washington, with Nebraska senators and UAW honchos at the top, and a loser like you way down at the bottom. And even then, as happened almost as soon as ObamaCare had passed, the un-level playing field had to be re-landscaped with additional hillocks and valleys containing opt-outs for McDonald's, the United Federation of Teachers, and anyone else powerful enough to get past the Obama switchboard operator. So Conyers has to worry only that his client groups have been taken care of he doesn't deal in average American citizens, as Charlie Rangel would say. Joe Average and all the rest can be left to the agency of this, the board of that, the commission of the other, manned by millions of bureaucrats whose role is to determine, arbitrarily but authoritatively, which of the multiple categories of Unequal-Before-the-Law Second-Class (or Third-Class, or Fourth-Class) Citizenship you happen to fall into.
The lifetime professional legislative class boasts of its "experience." Experience of what? Of spending beyond not their means but ours. The Emirs of Incumbistan have presided over an explosion of government, an avalanche of debt, and the looting of America's future. Robert C. Byrd named buildings after himself; Eddie Bernice Johnson handed out a third of Congressional Black Caucus college scholarships to her own grandchildren and the family of her senior aide. Charlie Rangel fiddled his expenses while Rome burned through our money. Focused on their petty privileges, they were happy to sub-contract law-making to others. The Emirs corrupted not just themselves but the very idea of responsible government. And far from the ballot box, alternative sources of power arose.
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..........Yyyaaaaaa, that is some of what is going on in the USA, I think if you are watching the news you know about the other large events like the protests from people aginst Governments, leaders in Governments, the Wall/Fall Street guys and the corrupt Finance and Money people that have brought the West down to its knees.
Europe .... well the demonstrations and violence in Greece continues towards the "lighten your belt" policy they are having to bring in on the average person, which one BBC expert (high gal for the HSBC bank) said reforms should have been done in Greece 10 years ago. And in talking to this HSBC rep. she said it is going to be very very difficult for Greece and Europe and the Eurozone money to find a way out. France and Germany are right now at logger-heads over what to do and the amount of bail-out money they need to solve the problems in Europe.
Europe is truly the ten toes of iron and clay of the Beast of Daniel chapter two. Strong and weak, with no easy way out. And if they do not pull things together then their troubles will continue to weaken the USA and eventually Canada (which for Canada I've said before is in better shape than most Western countries).
We have the new moves in the Arab world, leading in time to the prophecied "king of the south" of Daniel 11:40-45; we have the problems in Europe, keeping them for now, forming the mighty Beast power of the book of Revelation; and we have the shocking continued economic fall and high unemployment of the USA.
We have famine, earthquakes, flooding, and sicknesses in different parts of the world. We are indeed living in the last days, the end times of this age; but remember only the Father in heaven knows how long He will continue this age, before He sends Christ Jesus back to establish the Kingdom of God on earth.
For those of you still observing this Last Great Feast Day, may it be a blessing to you and your family.
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