What a great country

As the results from yesterday's election was rolling in last night, and pundits discussed what it all meant, the thing that was going through my mind was, "what a great country," The balance of powers is a beautiful thing. I don't like this blog to be political, but I was very happy last night for two reasons that relate to the Faith. 1.) The amount of pro-life candidates who won was incredibly hopeful, and 2.) The debt and size of government is a moral issue.

Every society has to decide how much taxation is too much, and when you reach the tipping point, then the next questions becomes, where do we spend it. We don't have a revenue problem in America, we actually have a very healthy revenue with a $14 trillion economy. So where should we spend the revenue that is coming in. When you reach a point that you are going into debt, that is when you start hurting the very engine that feeds the $14 trillion. That is not fair. Like any family or group, there comes a time when you have to go into debt for an emergency, and maybe we reached that point with the economy in 08', but in the fix, you have to make sure you feed the horse that is pulling the carriage. People ask me all the time, as a Christian, don't you feel obligated that people have health care, and the answer is certainly yes, in fact, I want people to have health care, housing, cloths, food, all of the basic necessities.

The greatest way to lift the largest amount of people out of poverty, is a vibrant economy. St. Paul says, "let those who will not work, not eat," St. Paul knew that there was people in the society of his time that could not work, because they were sick, or handicapped. But he also knew that if you could work, than work was a good for man, and that if you could work, you should work.

We have to remember what pays for those services, and its our work. That is why I think Bill Clinton was so successful with Welfare reform, making work a condition of welfare. It is compassionate to live in reality, and we were made to use our creative gifts for work. We have to do the things that make our economy strong, so that we can pay for the necessary things in society. Going into debt only saddlebags a very healthy horse.