“I want to make a statement about…me…now, if I became deceived, I will never tell you what I’m going to tell you now…I am telling you if I go off into strange ideas, misconduct, rebellion, you name it, don’t follow me. I want to tell you that now, because if I start doing that I’m gonna try to get you to follow me! I’m gonna come to you and tell you it doesn’t apply, it doesn’t mean me, no, no, no, no, no, no, it’s OK to follow me because ABCD and XY and Z. Do you understand what I’m saying? Listen to me now, when I tell you don’t follow me if I go off into weird ideas, or if I get off into other things that are total absolutely unscriptural conduct, because if I do I’m gonna paint it with a different face and try to get you to follow me. Do you understand what I’m saying brethren? Please remember that, because I promise you that if I become deceived, I’ll forget it, and I’ll want you to forget it…And I hope you’ll remember it well enough to quote it right back to me…But I’ll tell you what, I’m not going anywhere.”
-David C Pack
December 12, 1998
The Clarion Call of Apostle David C. Pack
Video and audio files can be found here and on Rumble
“I see my nation basically bankrupt but unwilling to stop the party for the rich and powerful”
This is about addiction. The congress is out of control and keeps spending knowing that the economy is getting into big trouble by doing so. The question is Al, what are they spending it on? How many trillion have been spent in the last two years?
“Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice in the fiscal policies of the government, they will move to vote for themselves all the money in the treasury, and bankrupt the nation.”
— Karl Marx
They are spending it on wars and occupations that shouldn’t have been waged, on tax cuts that were ill-advised in the beginning and stupid to continue.
I know taxes got out of line and were strangling the economy at one time, but then we went to an even worse extreme and went into overwhelming debt to pay for it while prosecuting wars and occupations that never should have been.
Plus, the common sense regulations that held the legalized criminals in line were systematically wiped out. We are back to the days of the robber barons. The middle class is being wiped out, and the the average Joe and Judy Blow is becoming nothing but a serf. George H. W. Bush was right when he called it “voodoo economics,” but he was soon persuaded to abandon his sensibleness and it’s been a downhill slide ever since. I definitely do not regard Ronald Reagan as a great president.
Like I said, I fear it is too late. Class warfare is probably in our future, and a nation divided is a nation doomed.
Well, we’re all appalled. Either that, or dead. It is impossible to ignore what is plainly going on all around us.
Greater minds than mine have recently pointed out that the USA is actually two separate countries. Each believes that the USA is going to hell in a handbasket in a different way. As an example, recently a group of theologians got together, meeting to discuss the future of America. Their conclusion was that we’ve got about two years. After that, one of two things is going to happen. Either we get some sort of spiritual revival going, or we fall into an abyss from which we will never recover. It was said that Europe has already lost their compass, and has entered the abyss.
New thought. Separate:
Of all the recent presidents, the administration during which I personally did best was ironically that of Bill Clinton. Yes, he was a liberal, and a Democrat. And, he had his moral failures. But, his presidency and agenda had been co-opted by conservatives. His liberal agenda had not been allowed to fly. He was a check and balance against Congress, and Congress was a check and balance against him. Fast forward. During the Bush presidency, the so-called neocons caused our national wealth to be squandered on their agenda for America. All attempts to balance the budget went out the window. This did not work at all. America was dissatisfied, and voted for the opposite party, who promptly enacted the agenda which had been held in check during the Clinton years. That has really greased the toboggan slide! Now, it seems the brakes are being applied, but it may already be too late.
The last time I felt so uneasy about our future was during the 1960’s when my entire generation went crazy with drugs and began fomenting an anti-American revolution. That went on for much longer than was healthy for the country, but gradually common sense returned, beginning in the early 1980s. We do get those crazy periods from time to time, even accompanied by a severe drop in ethics amongst our elected officials. Let’s hope this all gets resolved sooner than later. Unfortunately, I believe we’ve got too much fear rhetoric and distrust driving the political situation, and it may require longer to right the wrong directions, with far more human suffering involved. Let’s hope that I am wrong!
BB
As I stated, I fear it is too late to turn things around. The warring camps are just too entrenched. Some will probably label me a communist, but I feel the progressive steps set in motion by Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt were the best hope for the future of our people. They’ve all been sabotaged, and there are even calls for the repeal of Social Security. That’s a totally solvent program and could be kept so, also Medicare.
We need common sense to take over, but little of that has been apparent recently, and I’m not impressed with any theologian’s call for a return to spirituality. I know all to well what they really mean.
An article by David Rosen appeared just today on Alternet which explains in much clearer manner some of the points I was trying to make in this blog of mine. I encourage everyone to read it thoughtfully: http://www.alternet.org/economy/149586/will_only_another_great_depression_save_america/