I try to keep politics out of my blog; however, in the instance of the "fiscal cliff" I came across this from a comment section at Townhall.com relating to the President's last press conference on negotiations.
magnetar's post is excellent and worth re-posting:
fiscal cliff- this is not my work but it is brilliant in its simplicity
US TAX revenue - 2,170,000,000,000
Federal budget - 3,820,000,000,000
new annual debt -1,650,000,000,000
national debt - 16,000,000,000,000
pres Obama budget cuts - 38,500,000,000
let's now subtract 8 zeros and pretend it is a regular household budget
annual income $21,700
money the family spent $38,200
New debt on credit card $16,500
outstanding credit card debt -$160,000
total budget cuts so far $38.50
Can you liberals comprehend what is happening here, can you
understand why the conservatives are crying Obama is a traitor and a
marxist? Is this a road to prosperity or a road to destruction?
My thoughts:
This is so simple to understand. If your outflow is bigger than your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall. What is hard to understand here? Since Congress has not passed a budget in nearly four years, how do they expect to negotiate anything? Regular people don't live like this, they can't live like this. People used to go to debtor's prison. Where can we send the government? One has to tighten the belt and cut the spending to get things under control. It is not a revenue problem, it is a spending problem. Republicans are going to get blamed for everything that happens, so they should just do what is right. We shall see if leadership has the guts to do it. Meanwhile, pray for the USA, still the best land on the planet.
Last quilts for 2012
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| Eight inch half-square triangles on the back of this one. One way to use up material. |
The front is half-square triangles in greens with accent white and yellow. The border is has Bible book names tan on tan.
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| This colorful baby quilt is about a meter square for a young newborn. The backing is a world map and summer kimono fabric. |
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| This did not turn out like it was supposed to, if only I was paying attention when I pieced it. Rather than take the blocks apart and do it right, I did this arrangement. These quilts will be given as Christmas gifts to new church members. Below is the backing and quilt label. |
An accident and daikon
Busy week ahead with passing out Christmas flyers, invitations to a cookie making party and a pizza party for the teens. There's also a big lunch on Sunday, so that involves turkey and some of the fixings. We will be stuffed. Please pray for some visitors to come to these activities. Merry Christmas!
My House is Full...
Opening song Hallelujah to the Lamb
This is one of the windows in the chapel at the FBC Long Beach.
These college kids were digging into some sinful desserts. :-)
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
I have not published my political opinion, but this time I am.
It’s OK to cry.
After learning of the election results, my heart just ached, wondering
how so many people could be duped into believing all the empty rhetoric. What has happened to the land of my nativity?
As I looked on the election maps state by state, I
noticed all the democratic counties were along the West coast, the Northeast above
Virginia, and around Illinois and among those individual states, just a handful
of counties were actually democrat, where the majority of the state voted republican. It was around the big population centers that
the president got his biggest support.
Grassroots America did not vote for four more years of the same bad
policies, but we will have to put up with it. Here is an excellent post-election article.
http://patriotpost.us/alexander/15387/
It is not time to despair. “To despair is to not believe God,” as quoted
by Marilla in Anne of Green Gables. This
whole thing is because God planned it; perhaps as a judgment on Christians who
are not being the salt of the earth. It
is time to double down and seek God and ask that He heal our land, as only He
can do.
Monday, November 5, 2012
We left Clinton about 9:00 and got to Dulles about 10:00
a.m. Joe dropped us off and we headed
into the airport. An underground train
has been built to take passengers from the main terminal to the one where you
board your flight. It is better than
those big bus=type things they’ve had.
It was a full flight; 14 hours to Tokyo, but really a
smooth one. It was not easy to sleep,
but I did doze some.
Somewhere over Alaska about 6 hours into flight
We arrived at Tokyo about 5:00 p.m. and had to catch our
flight to Itami airport about 5:45, so we had to hurry through customs and get
to the plane. Somehow we three were not
sitting in the same row, even though there were plenty of vacant seats. Anyway, we landed OK at Itami, got the
luggage and met Noseh-san who came to pick us up. We got back to the house about 9:00 pm, and
took showers and went straight to bed.
Unpacking on Monday. Nice to be back,
but the trip was too short, as always.
Sunday, November 4, 2012
This morning Peter drove us over to Rosehill Baptist
Church in Alexandria, VA, where Pastor Upshaw has been pastor for 43
years. Henry taught the Bible Study hour
and morning service. The last time we
were there was on deputation in 1989. This has been one of our most faithful
churches. After the service we were
taken to an authentic Chinese restaurant, meaning the employees all spoke
Chinese. The food was really good, too.
After lunch we headed toward Prince Frederick, MD., and
the New Life Baptist Church where Pastor DiChiacchio has been for 10
years. He and his family were at
Independent 30 years ago when I joined there.
It was a full house of people (literally, they meet in a house); and our
three sons were all there. Henry
preached.
After services we headed back to Clinton in two
cars. We met at the IHop and Peter
decided to go home having the need to get up early for work in the
morning. So Matthew and Joe and the rest
of us had ‘dinner”. Henry got blueberry pancakes,
I had ice cream, Sara had a crepe and the boys had a full breakfast. Then after that we all hugged and went back
to the Gill’s house. Joe is going to
take us to the airport in the morning.
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Friday, November 2, 2012
Today we did some needed shopping for items we cannot get
in Japan like circular saw blades.
WalMart is a good place to shop for things and I did find some on my
list. We stopped by Panda Express to see
Matthew so we could talk with him a bit.
Bought some egg rolls for a snack—yummy.
This evening Henry went with Peter to the church and the
Reformer’s Unanimous meeting and got back here after 10:30 p.m. It was a rather uneventful day, which is
OK.
Thursday, November 1, 2012
No alarms went off at 6:00 a.m. and I slept to nearly
8:00 which is something I don’t do. Felt
good. We had Cheerios for breakfast, a
real treat. Peter came by after 10:00 so
we could go to the bank and make a deposit.
Then we went to Oxon Hill to try and vote early, but upon driving by the
long line (about a three-hour wait), we decided to vote the absentee ballots we
had received previously. We got them
printed out and voted, then mailed them in on Friday. Hopefully it will count.
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