I think I am starting to get pretty sick of hearing about the economy. If you pay attention, you’ll see that there are positive signs everywhere. Wrapping up March, and heading into April, TKG is having a pretty great couple of months. The stock market is stabilizing, to a certain extent. People here in Stark County have been on the rebound after bottoming out last year. I’m not saying that economic difficulties are over, but we need to look to the future. Unfortunately, the current administration seems to want to do nothing but cry over the doom and gloom. That, and spend tax payer dollars on every seemingly downtrodden industry in America. Even those who don’t want the help! Some of the banks that received some of the TARP money are trying to give it back. Several have just turned it down altogether, because of the crazy strings attached by the administration.
If you listen to mainstream media, or the administration, you’ll be convinced that we’ll never be able to pull ourselves out of this financial quagmire. It’s so bad, and everyone is headed for bankruptcy. Everyone you know is having a garage sale, or putting everything they own on Craigslist. Drastic times call for drastic measures, so we are now spending trillions of whose money? Tax payers? China’s? To try and stem the tide.
All of this spending is going to come at a great cost to us as a nation. We are losing control of the banking system, as Obama has promised Europe that they can control some of the banks that have been bailed out. Obama himself wants to be able to control banks and big business, as well as healthcare, as he is now controlling GM and Chrysler.
Let’s take a moment, folks, look around. If you live in this area, you’ll see that the parking lots of the restaurants are full. The mall is busy. You have to wait in line at Wal-Mart, for like, a zillion years, just like always. Yeah, you know some people, or are some people that are struggling financially. But can you really say that things are so bad that we want the government to just take over and handle it all? Do we really want a politician making our personal financial decisions for us? Do we really want politics to play a role in how we run our businesses? If you are a business owner, like me, with families who are depending on the success of this business, you don’t want a bunch of Washington beaurocrats running your business, most likely right into the ground. Or worse, running it with no intention of taking it in the direction you have foreseen since it’s inception. Using it for purposes you never intended. As the owner of a web development business, my sales guys know that there are certain “industries” we won’t do work for or with. The government might think that’s unfair, and try to force us to create sites or do other work that we are not comfortable with as a Christian company. I sure as heck won’t be allowed to identify my company as a Christian company anymore!
I think American is rebounding. I think we need to allow it to do so without so much governmental interference. We are going to end up a socialist nation in the very near future if we don’t stand up and fight what is happening – what I can hardly believe is happening here in America.
One way to make ourselves heard is by attending a Tea Party. Check it out, attend one in your area this Tuesday, April 15th.
