pattygreen

I LOVE Glen Beck! I just finished reading his book "Common Sense". Excellent read.

May I ask you a question? Do you believe that if you don't go to heaven that you will 'literally' burn in a fire for all of eternity?

I may be wrong, but I thought there were no term limits for congress.

to help how? To help who?

May I ask how God uses you as His instrument?

I wouldn't want to live in any other country but America. But, America has become a slave to the rest of the world economically. Especially China. Here's a scenerio for you. The husband and breadwinner of the family lost his job 2 months ago. He hasn't told his wife or family. He doesn't want them to know for fear of what they would say. So, he continues to act as if the money is in the bank every week. He still goes out to eat and purchases things they need and want using credit cards. Not just one card, but many of them. They soon are all maxed out. Eventually, they are coming after him for the money he owes, and he decides to take out a loan with a bank. The bank gives him the money, he repays some of his credit card debt, but it's not enough. He is still keeping up the charade with his wife and family, so he is still living it up as usual, and the debt is climbing. He needs to see a loan shark and the mob, and after he gets his money from them, he spends it on his charade. He can't pay back the loan shark or the mob. The problem is the loan shark ALWAYS gets his money one way or the other. This debt that America owes is unsustainable! If they don't STOP all the spending, we will lose everything to the rest of the world around us. Open your eyes and stop being sooooo blind to it. Of course we all want better medical care for less. But at what expense? Now, before the gov decides to start yet another financially failed program, let's do something about other options that wont COST us anything. I've named them all before. My question to you all is this: What has the governement done for you in the past that has given you such high and trusting regard for their word and deeds? The only thing that has changed in Washington is the face of the president. Their corruption, dishonesty, stealing and greed has not. They make laws for the good of the people they say, yet have a different and seperate set of laws for themselves. I don't trust a lick of them!

You're right I didn't vote for him. None the less, I still thought he was speaking about 'change' in the way Government needed it. (corruption, greed, lies, spending, pork projects, that kind of thing)

That sounds like our government system. Not willing to give up $taxing$ the people by eliminating waste and cutting spending no matter how financially indebted we become to to the rest of the world.

That's interesting. What do you mean by reconciled? Where did Buddah get his philosophies?

In the New Testament Jesus said I have not come to abolish the law, but to uphold it. He then goes on to explain the things that need to continue to be upheld. Homosexuality and adultry were there. People need to read all of the bible to get the overall truth.

Yes, I admit that I am not always able to find kind words to describe your posts or to debate your unkind words. One reason is because you think that your ideas are morally right. I disagree. I think your ideas generally are exclusionary, discriminative as well as small thinking and single minded. And furthermore, you're quite wrong about what we want for this country. YOUR God does not have the authority to tell people how to make this country function. YOUR interpretation of God is a God that would not treat people as Jesus instructed. And it is YOUR interpretation of GOD's will that people rebel against. Not God. And we do not seek to have a country where no one is required to answer to authority. We are a nation of laws. We need laws and we abide by the law. Some of the people you seem to agree with politically do not wish to abide by the laws of the land, and they justify that felonious attitude by saying it's what GOD wants. I'm going to call a major ahhhhh-bullshit-chooooo here. Pardon me. And you cannot divert attention away from your mean desires for this country by accusing us of not wanting to answer to authority. YOUR group of extremists are the ones who are not wanting to answer to governmental authority and the authority they supposedly answer to is a made up authority that they establish to suit their unholy needs. There is an end time coming that the bible speaks of. I could see what he says in the bible to be true simply by the way you talk. You sound like you could be one of those people who would feel justified in the persecution of the believers that will happen in the end. May God have mercy upon you.

How could you do that? He was extremely straightforward and open during his campaign. And he is being more open in his presidency than any presidents have been, that I know of. Really? During his campaign he talked about health care reform, but never once did he say his reform was for the government to run a health care insurance company for everyone. That's not what I call open and clear.

When Obama campaigned on 'change', most thought he meant a change in the way the government does things. We thought he meant he wanted to get rid of government corruption and deception and out of control spending and social programs and 'pork'. We thought he meant to 'change' the way the government tries to take control of us. We thought he meant to change the corruption in Congress. This is not what he meant by 'change'. He meant 'change' us from a free country to a socialistic one. We don't want that kind of change. We want to go back to what our founding Fathers set up and planned for this country.

bjean

You keep confusing 'heath care reform' with 'a government run health care insurance plan'. 2 Different things. Republicans want reform. Reform is a change in the way things are run. (Ins. companies, trial lawyers, medical professionals).We want reform, just not the kind that's being offered. You know, the government insurance option.

This is why I abhor 'organized' religions. You are right in what you say. This is why every individual needs to read what God has to say, and not believe what their higher authority in their churches have to say about things.There really is no excuse for anyone when they stand before him one day and say," I never knew what you had to say on these issues." For in America, the bible is available to all and we have the freedom to read it. As far as using the bible to support hate and discriminatory views, I believe that people need to take the bible at it's word, not their own word. How can these words be interpreted any differently? "Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; it is detestable."(Lev.18:22) The whole chapter 18 is entitled 'Unlawful sexual relations'. A verse before it says, "Do not have sexual relations with your neighbors wife and defile yourself with her." The verse after it says, "Do not have sexual relations with an animal." There is NO way to misinterpret God's intent here. Sorry. But he says it is just as wrong as the sins of adultry or having sex with an animal.

I am glad that he is opening the books,but the criticism comes with the fact that he wouldn't be opening the books if it weren't for the threat of legal action from the American people.

I hear that Rhode Island lawmakers are pushing to criminalize indoor prostitution, saying it damages the states reputation. If it weren't a sinful thing to do, (prostitute oneself), then why would they believe their reputaion was being tarnished by allowing it to be lawful there? This country shouldn't make laws that go along with what the God of the bible teaches to be wrong. (rolling my eyes) Did you know that Nevada is the only other state that permits prostitution, and even there it's not legal in the 3 most populous counties.

I heard that Obama's administration will start releasing the names of people who visit the WH. This has never been the WH's policy in the past. Doing so would bring to light who is influencing decision making there. This is being done because the watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has put legal pressure on them. Not because Obama wants to be open with Americans. Of course no records will be released right away. The policy covers visits starting Sept. 15. Why not let us see who visited him since his inauguration? If he was soooo honest and open, he wouldn't care if we took a look back. But no, after Sept. 15, he will let us see who visits. After Sept. 15, all visitors that he doesn't want the public to know about will enter through another door, I'm sure.

[Cleo'smom QUOTE]Parents don't want their kids to hear Obama talk about staying in school and studying because it would be an endorsement of his agenda. At first he encouraged students about ways in which they could "help the president". This seemed to be an effort to politicize children. Then they changed the wording to to encourage children to write letters to themselves about how they can achieve their short and long term goals in education. There happens to be alot of political unrest in our nation right now. If there wasn't this political debate going on ,I don't believe parents would have responded the way they did over this. Technology today has made it easier to spread their messages and even Obama has used the media and technology to move his agenda forward. The downside of it is "every whisper becomes something that is heard over a loudspeaker."

But, as you know, it's not about the American people and what they want. It's about them! They want to keep their jobs. They know that there are far more people against the bill being put thru than for it, and even if they are for it themselves, if they want to keep their seat, they better vote against it or we are going to boot them out!