Freedom Isn't Free and Neither are Entitlements

I believe I got some of the strangest advice I've heard in ages. This came from a religious right neo-con fan of the present administration. Let me tell you, those members of that twenty some percent think they are a pretty exclusive and cerebral bunch, and frankly I find them extreme. Today, as I was building the kid page at eingedi.us, the phone rang. This particular person loves to attempt to debate politics and religion with me. I don't know why, I've been very clear that I'm not a bit interested in being talked out of my faith and after the last 7 1/2 years of mess, I don't want to hear one more Bush-ite tell me something about Bill Clinton's sex life. If Hillary doesn't care, why should I? Even if she did, that is such old news, and I never knew how it made such huge news when it was current. Anyway, back to this brilliant idea. First let me qualify this with my beliefs. I don't believe in social security for two reasons. One, I believe, as a servant of G~D, I'm not supposed to plan to retire and when I can no longer work, I see no reason for the younger generations to exhaust their funds keeping me alive and unproductive. There is no Scriptural reference for retirement. Second, I don't believe in social secuirty, because I'm not a big fan of socialism and I continue to be amazed at the people who are so anti-communist and anti-socialist, but defend their right to their entitlements. And although I didn't mention a third reason, there is a very clear one and the example has been demonstrated so elaborately these last few years. Why would I want to trust a government to care for me financially, when this particular government has gone in the hole to the tune of trillions? So the idea that was presented was this. Since I have MS and my husband is now an amputee, we should go on disability and since we don't believe in collecting, give the money to our daughter. No, really, that was the suggestion. Now, let me also clarify this by saying, my husband wasn't employed when he became an amputee. He had already decided to semi-retire and publish. I am a writer and a minister, so MS hasn't really affected my work, either. I realize we could both get in line for our entitlements, but why? I wrote my first book while sitting in a wheel chair and my husband lost his leg, he still has both hands, and he always liked to sit to work anyway. Putting two more people on the government dole isn't really going to help the economy that has been sunk for the past 7 years. I saw the hand writing on the wall, when President Bush wanted the "younger work force" to start investing their own social security into Wall Street. That was the first attempt at a bail out and how long ago was that? Hummm . . . this money game has been in the works for awhile, eh?
So now that the economy is openly known to be a mess, getting more people to compromise their values is exactly what was prophesied to occur, in the coming apocalypse recorded in the Revelation. I just keep finding so strange that it's the religious right trying to get everyone to put their faith in the government. Daniel was faced with the same choice presented as an opportunity. Maybe if he'd have gone along with the government protocol, he wouldn't have spent a night saying, "Nice kitty," but then again, all the government officials would have thought they truly were more powerful than G~D.
Then was the king exceeding glad for him, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he believed in his G~D.