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THE PATRIOT PRESS
MARCHING TO THE DRUMBEAT OF FREEDOM
Jan. 15, 2009 Vol. 2 Issue 2
Governmental Bailout by Anna Becker
“I can’t believe such things are coming out of the mouth of a twenty year old!” That’s what my cousin Kathy said to me at the family reunion last year. And I hadn’t even taken the Lord’s name in vain! All I had done was reiterate the conservative principles that I learned while attending Patriot Academy. This incident only solidified my desire to accurately convey the truth as we are instructed to in I Pet 3:15. “But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear.” Since God has commanded us to be effective witnesses of the truth, it is imperative that we know both sides of an issue so that we can effectively communicate to someone what is true and what is false.
The word “bailout” has been on everyone’s lips the past few months. As can be expected when more than $700 billion dollars is at stake, you will get many heated debates on the issue. Helen Thomas in an article entitled, “There are good reasons to bail out Detroit”, says, “Balking senators should realize the industry’s financial failure could end health and retirement benefits for thousands of Americans and eliminate an estimated 2.5 million jobs. Do we really want that to happen?” Liberals contended that since Wall Street and the Detroit Big “3” provide so many jobs, we should help them through this financial difficulty so the economy will not collapse.
Many conservatives argued that there was not enough oversight of the funds. The House Republican Study Committee (RSC), noted in their paper entitled “Ten Conservative Concerns” that the bailout “fundamentally alters the nation’s free-market system in that it broadly socializes firm’s money-losing mortgage assets and places the U.S. on a slippery slope whereby profits will also be nationalized.” Conservatives realized that America was rapidly becoming a socialist nation by the passage of a bailout bill.
In conclusion, when faced with a controversial issue, first look at it through the lens of Scripture, specifically the Ten Commandments. Will agreeing with the issue pervert the law in order to save someone? Does it replace justice with safety? Remember the LIFT principles we learned from Mama Seay. Limited Government, Individual Liberty, Free Market, and Traditional Values. And never forget that socialism is bad, very, very bad!
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