Priorities !

PRIORITIES

by Don Robson


Recently, I watched a program on CBC called, "Dragon's Den". In
the "Den", five self-made multi-millionaires are approached by
entrepreneurs and inventors to obtain funding for the development
of their product and business. Three immigrants approached for
help in publishing a book about their exploits coming to Canada.
One Dragon, whose father was Serbian, broke into tears as he
recalled his father's entry to Canada and how fortunate he was to
have benefited from all Canada has to offer its citizens. It
caused me to reflect on this phenomenon; it led me to the
conclusion that we are under God's protection, especially since
911.
The following day, I listened to a CBC call-in show where people
living in poverty explained the various difficulties occurring in
their lives as a result. So, this led to questioning why we are
unable to solve the problem or, at least, do more to alleviate
their misery. It seems it is a matter of priorities regarding
the disbursal of government revenues.

We have no problem allocating billions of dollars for new
fighting aircraft, ships for the navy and materials to support
the army. The numbers of these items are never explained to the
taxpayer. IF our government leaders recognized that we are a part
of the Israel family of nations and IF we recognized that to be
in harmony with our Creator we must apply God's eternal law, THEN
we could count on all of God's promised blessings which include
first, Israel is God's battle ax and must win with a small army
and second, no weapon that is formed against us will prosper. St
Paul tells us that scripture (the Old Testament) is written for
our instruction. I would suggest reading the stories of Gideon,
Jehoshaphat and Sennacherib's seige of Jerusalem. In two of these
cases the defending army never took the field and as we know
Gideon's army was comprised of 300 men.
So, we could use some of these billions to bring people to the
poverty line or better and we could repair the substandard
housing accommodations in which they live, while providing new
housing.

Another priority area that requires review is our taxation of
people and corporations. First, no one living under the poverty
line should be paying income tax. This would be just and we want
a just society. Our present government makes tax concessions to
the richest corporations in the belief that the extra profits and
cash will allow them to invest in new in dustries and job
creation. This is not working because those very corporations are
accumulating billions of dollars on their balance sheets, not
spending cash but hoarding it. If they were taxed at rates that
would have them pay their fair share versus the people, then that
tax could be used by the government to repair and expand our
crumbling infrastructure which is adversely affecting our
business environment.

God has given us a land of milk and honey and all the other
necessities of life and given in such abundance that we can
support other impoverished countries. But, to come into a perfect
union with God, thereby allowing Him to shower us with His good
works, we need to RESTORE His eternal LAWS and recover a society
where GOOD MORALS always drive our actions.

You see, it's a matter of priority!
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Speaking of "morals" - a "aid" in some manner to JK Fennedy has
now only come forth to write about her "affair" with JFK when she
was just around the 20 year mark - an affair that she says went
on for about 18 months.

Wellllll......it's been pretty well known and noised about for
decades that JFK was an adulterer on a pretty regular basis. I
once read a few decades ago where an older lady staff memeber in
the White House said to JFK...."You are the President Sir, why do
you do this with other women?" To which his reply was, "I just
have to, I cannot help it."

The facts are also, the Kennnedy men (most of them) were
fornicators and adulterers, it was part of the Kennedy blood, for
the male Kennedy's to be this way, as they say "Like Father like
Son."

So the lack of "sexual morals" did not start with Bill Clinton
and the young White House staff gal, Monica whoever.

The sad truth of the matter is that sexual morals have been
pretty low for decades among SOME USA politicians.

Keith Hunt