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Monday September 27th, Amos 6: 1 Woe to you who are complacent in Zion, and to you who feel secure on Mount Samaria, 6 You drink wine by the bowlful and use the finest lotions, but you do not grieve over the ruin of Joseph. 7 Therefore you will be among the first to go into exile; your feasting and lounging will end. In the past thirty years any attempt to offer assistance to the lower and middle classes has been met with cries of socialism and redistribution of wealth. At the same time we have seen the largest shift of tax burden to the lower and middle classes and the largest shift of wealth and power to the top 1% with no cry of foul. History has a way of correcting things however. In the history of humanity, every major nation or empire has seen a shift of wealth and power to the upper 1% followed either by the fall of that nation or empire or a major correctional shift. The last time the US was in such a state of economic and power shift to the top was right before the Wall Street crash and the great depression. We are now edging toward that goal once more fueled most vocally by the Kock brothers funded rhetoric of the “grass roots” libertarian movement known as the TEA party. The correction will come as it always has, the question for the elections this fall are do want the hard landing that comes following the free market push of wealth to the top, or do you want the soft landing that comes with the planned refocusing of wealth and power throughout the broad spectrum of humanity? Hint, one of these answers is more closely related to Jesus call to care for the least, lost and lonely among us.