Our current economic plight was not caused by this President.
Greed is immoral. It is also unsustainable as a driving force in a nation's economic stability. Our current economic plight is the product of decades of unchecked greed in our country.
The economic house of cards, the foundation of which was laid over 30 years ago (1981), started to collapse because of the housing/realty/banking de-regulation and immoral practices allowed by the last administration. In the greedy interest of making a great deal of profit quick for themselves, and with no regard for the long-term future of people in our country, those who could did exploit and engage in corrupt practices, and the rest of our economy fell when they did.
People are still feeling the effects of that. Many companies are now enjoying record profits, but "the job creators" are not hiring folks back for two reasons:
1. They are enjoying record profit margins by NOT paying more people to work and letting those
employed carry more of a load. Stockholders make more that way and CEO"s get bonuses that
way. The fact that it hurts many Americans is not an issue for them in the face of more profit -
immoral greed.
2. In the hopes to go back to an administration that will continue the de-regulation and allow
unchecked greed, keeping people unemployed and therefore unsatisfied in this election year is
just a bonus.
The Healthcare plan that has not yet been fully implemented is a way for all Americans to have some healthcare benefits. It has problems but is an attempt to join other Industrialized nations in offering healthcare as a human right. It is the caring thing to do, but out of the immorality of greed those who would make less profit do not like it. The loss of some profit is being passed on to employers and therefore employees, to keep them unsatisfied in this election year. Rather than accept a little less profit, those who operate out of immoral greed have already started compensating in health coverage to make more profit, when much of the plan has not yet even been put in place.
Why blame the President for their greed? Why blame those on the same economic level you are on or the ones below it, when it is those above you on it that create these realities for you? If you aspire to be in that club, you need to know that it is very exclusive and the odds are against your being accepted in it. If you aspire to be in that position so that you can perpetrate similar things on those "below you" for your own gain, you might want to check your level of greed.
The oil companies keep the prices climbing in this election year, because contrary to what some will say, the President is actively pursuing other forms of energy and they don't like him. He is less in their pockets than the last administration's oil company President, and is not playing nice by pushing for alternative sources. They do not want him to get re-elected. They keep prices high in an election year with any provocation possible, so that the President gets blamed, although even Right Wing broadcasters have said (in years past) that the President has no influence on the price of oil or gas. The thought that it worked against Carter and could work against this guy is being put into action.
The War industries are not pleased to see the end of our spending trillions of dollars in Iraq and soon in Afghanistan, so contrary to the facts of this President actually ending Bin Laden's reign, they will claim that he is soft regarding our military presence in the world. His diplomatic efforts, war always being the LAST option that any nation should use, are being spun as weakness rather than wisdom and responsible action. War is good for profit, so they do not want this President in office any longer.
The banks, credit card companies for whom they are fronts, stock brokers and others on Wall Street do not want this President re-elected. He has received some funds from some of them, but not nearly the amounts received by his future opponent (whoever it may be) in this election (unless it is Ron Paul or to some degree Mitt Romney, both of whom have had their own wealth to run on).
The lies and rhetoric of fear are being used to convince people that it is the President's fault for all of this, when the truth is that it is the culture of greed that created it and wants to let the conditions that led to it flourish for the quick, unchecked and unaccountable profit for a few at the expense of the many.
I get alternately amused and disgusted by the lies that are put out there and that people are duped into believing. These are the folks who at the same time called the President a Muslim, while attacking his Christian Pastor for a sermon. These are the same folks who say he sympathizes more with Muslims than Christians, right after he "pushed the button" on Osama Bin Laden. These are the same folks who said during the last administration that any President is not to blame for high gas prices, but blame this one for them. They are the same ones who keep bringing up his birth certificate as an issue, evidently forgetting that Hawaii is a State. It is ridiculous, and yet people believe it.
And he gets blamed because insurance companies are charging your employer more in anticipation of healthcare reform act policies that have not even yet gone into effect, which your employer passes to you rather than take a bit less profit for themselves. He gets blamed for you not working, when it was "the job creators" who got tax breaks for laying you off, along with record profits, bonuses and incentives. He gets blamed for it because they want to elect someone who will help them go back to the unchecked greed and unregulated fleecing of most of us for the profit of a few.
This president did not create our current economic plight. He inherited it.
I pray for the establishment of justice, equity, equality, a value for people over profit and the end of the immorality of greed in our nation. I pray for us to live the Agape Love (committed action on behalf of the other - even stranger and enemy in Luke 10:25-37) that Jesus commanded. As a follower of Jesus' teachings and examples, I pray for an end to the immorality of greed in our nation.
Pastor Jamie
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