Obama and History

Let's go back to various times in religious history and draw comparisons to the Obama Administration. Take first the children of Israel wandering in the wilderness. No matter how bad things got, they always had the surety of Canaan. What if all Moses gave them to hope for was, “It could be worse!”

We have insight that Moses saw the Promised Land; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. likewise; John the Revelator saw a new heaven and a new earth; Elisha saw the army of angels ready to fight; Daniel saw the rise and fall of empires ending with God in charge. . What do we have today under Obama? A lot of economic wilderness with manna and scorpions. Obama wants us to settle for this “new reality” that jobs aren’t coming back and we need to lower our living standards. He needs to create a realistic hope for the future-this is totally lacking in America today. 

All we have gotten are artificial prop ups like home buyers credits, and Cash for Clunkers that only goose the economy and leave us owing more. Why doesn’t Congress cut spending to offset reduced income? We need real help like tax cuts that leave more money in the hands of those who actually create jobs and opportunity- the entrepreneurial American. Give a reason to invest with confidence; give us hope to help see over the economic mountain top so we can again see America in her full glory. Yet polls show Americans have lost faith in Obama’s ability to lead and they find his speeches lacking inspiration. Blaming, excusing, and ranting are not leadership.

We are not a nation intended to rest on its hands to await the next Obama edict; we need leadership that gives us direction and then gets out of our way. Like with Katrina, expecting the federal government to be a first responder to every crisis is to give up on the American dream. We need to be like Mississippi and Alabama who met Katrina head on with a plan and have come a long way since then. Louisiana today is an example of relying on the government to do it. This fall we have a choice of whether we want government to do it for us or if we demand the opportunity to do it ourselves; I will always choose the latter.