I've grown up in a house that has Fox News on most of the day since we got cable. Tonight, I was laying on my mom's bed listening to Huckabee for back ground noise when a young woman named Ashley D came on. She is little older than me. She has gone to school for two different degrees and hasn't found a well paying full time job. Recently she signed up looking to see what her plan would be in Obamacare. The plan would cost three times as much as she has been paying. She isn't even able to keep her plan at the price she was paying. That plan is also going to triple in cost. A Facebook post she wrote went viral as she described that her generation is "getting raped by the government" on Huckabee she clarified that she meant that it "raped" as in "stolen".
The way she used this language struck me. Towards the ending of her interview she said that "The government has set us up for failure." Here is a girl that has worked hard getting her degree and now she competing for a job that she is more than qualified for. She almost has no option to make her dreams come true. What does that mean for the rest of us still in college?
From the nation of the free where dreams WERE made true. The government is shut down. Students are getting suspended from schools because of no tolerance
rules against things that look like guns. FEAR is causing a ruckus in this country. Each government official doing something that ends up holding some one else back.
Congress slightly reminds me of the Tower of Babel. Not understanding each other and conflicting views so they can't complete a task. Trying to raise the debt limit but can't even agree on having to do this.
The world sets itself for failure. One reason I avoid the news is to avoid the anger and worry of the country failing.
A reality that I have to remember as a Christian that God has a plan for me and the country. Jeremiah 29:11-14 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you,” declares the Lord, “and will bring you back from captivity. I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you,” declares the Lord, “and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile.”
Plus the best part is that this world is not where I have to stay. A comfort I have found is singing "this world is not my home" in my mind.
I am not some one who pays attention to the politics or the current news. This is my opinion of the things happening. I am praying for a better tomorrow and that is the only thing going to make a difference. Praying for God to guide the leaders to make the right decisions.
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