devastatingly correctional shift
Monday September
30th, 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, entitlement 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 that has seen a shift of wealth and power to the
upper 1% has also seen that followed either by the fall of that nation or
empire or a major devastatingly 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 in the 20’s. We are
now edging toward that goal once more fueled most vocally by the Koch 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 and those allowed to vote, are do want the hard
landing that comes following the free market push of wealth to the top followed
by crash, or do we 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.
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