When is Enough, Enough? the Debt and Greed of America Knows No Ends

The other day I was in the convenience store and a young woman had won $500 in the lottery. The clerk was trying to get her to buy the rest of the tickets, so that he could get rid of his inventory, for $45. She declined, then they tried to get her to buy the rest of these other tickets, for $25. She took her $500 and went out of the store.

Considering that it was only $500, I think that was a great call. If you stop at the $45, you still have $455. But you could get back into that gambling spirit, and run to some other convenience store, and then another, and before you know it all of the money that you had won, you lost. There are other chances that you might take, outside of gambling, just to lose your shirt.

For all that I know she could have went somewhere else anyway. Greed is a subject that is talked about a lot lately. You have the Occupy movements sweeping the country, and everyone is up in arms because when the bets pay off, we go into more debt, and more debt, and more debt, until we cannot borrow anymore. We haven't produced anything in decades, all we offer are "services", i.e. the knowledge about how to navigate products, and let some other company produce the tangible goods.

Our government is a victim of its own poverty thinking. If I am thinking, "well maybe I'll buy a $25 lottery ticket, so that I can win $500"; this means that I would rather spend $25 instead of use it as a seed and wait for the harvest. There aren't any farmers out there anymore; we wait until the last minute, when the city has been destroyed, and the neighbors are not coming back, and it is clear that the infrastructure is only going to continue to decay, to consider urban farming. This is something we could have done decades ago, but we are only now doing it as a last resort because it is clear that the cities we live here in are never going to rebuild.

Some cities are rebuilding, and they are using your tax dollars to do it. Some contractors are still looking for debt, and the banks will not give it to them. So we are in a "back to basics" mode. The simple act of planting is just renewable energy; stop waiting for some truck to bring in the food from some other state. America should stop waiting for some country to ship the tangible goods and create its own goods. Not everyone can work in the service industry.

Instead we have these financial products and instruments that are like that $25 lottery ticket. You might win $500, but it is not certain; but wouldn't you rather take that chance and find out? America needs to learn how to walk away "no thank you, but we can do this ourselves. We got this"; chances are that may never happen. But more of us can walk away. Chances are that $500 is not a seed that will ever be planted; easily acquired money never lasts. Read Proverbs 1:11-19; is America waiting for innocent blood to ambush a harmless soul? Is it that easy? Think about all of the wars that we start over oil. We already know what the outcome is. It was written thousands of years ago ...