Parade of Victims

Last night's Democrat debate featured the standard AFL/CIO fare, a parade of questioners that either lost their husband, lost their homes, or lost their health insurance. All sad stories and my heart really goes out to these people. Not only because of their misfortunes, but because they honestly believe that the crew of Democrats gathered actually had a plan to help them.

There is not very many people I bump into that that haven't had their fair share of tragedy either personally, or in their families. I and my family have had some ourselves. Of the aforementioned and especially myself three things hold true. One, we got through, two, we did so with out the help of any government agency, and third we are stronger and better people for it.

I am a Christian and my trust is in the faith I hold in Jesus. It saddens me when I see people, many who claim to be Christian, look to our government when they need to be looking much higher than that. God is the answer to our problems not Hillary Clinton, although there are times she thinks she is God.

I wasn't always a man of faith, I used to be an Atheist, then an Agnostic, then a Buddhist. Finally, after my life was a total wreck and I was totally broken, I met the Lord. It took me until my thirties to learn that the answers I sought were with me all along. God never left me, though I tried and tried to run from Him. And it happened, a life changing event and I can never go back to the way I was anymore than I can return to my own youth. It is a personal epiphany that defies explanation and only understood by those who have experienced it. I didn't learn the truth, I met the Truth and realized that He is the one I am to rely upon, not myself, not others, and certainly not the government.

This is the crux of the battle between most conservatives and the liberals. They deny the truth and seek to replace it with a facsimile, the all inclusive government. We conservatives of faith, know that government can't replace God, but should facilitate his work here on earth and impede it. We know that governments can't protect us from misfortune, we also know that God allows us to weather these storms not because he hates his children, but because he wants to see us grow

Unfortunately, there are people in this world that allow problems to overcome them, rather than overcoming the problems. And worse there are ruthless people who will exploit those less fortunate for their own political and personal gains by creating a permanent "victim" class in this nation. After all there is no need for big government if there are not plenty of people that depend upon it for help.