Oct

31

These are the stakes

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All you need to do is sit on your couch, do nothing, and all of these things will happen.

  • We can turn our health care over to a Canadian/British system that failed miserably and, in the process, give the government control over one seventh of the US economy.1
  • We can return to tax rates of the 1990s where you give up nearly half of what you earn to the federal government.2
  • We can return to estate taxes that will require heirs to sell half of their family treasures in order to pay the taxes on the estate.
  • We can open US borders to illegal immigrants and grant them all amnesty and/or citizenship for violating our national integrity.
  • We can reduce our military to levels that are not able to respond to international threats. Furthermore, we can reduce the active force to half of its present size, reduce the reserve forces, and slash the budgets of training and equipping our forces to render them incapable of meeting terrorist or other growing national threats.

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Oct

1

A New Vision, A New Leadership

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Noted teacher and author Max Lucado preached a sermon entitled “The Ship Called Salvation.” In this sermon, he described people on the ship that stand at the rails and call out to those being tossed around in the waves of the world. “Come on aboard. We have salvation!” they proclaim. However, the people in the waves reply, “On that ship? Are you crazy? The whole crew is fighting with each other!”

Working together arrowThis problem is not unique to the church; it exists in political parties as well. Some Republicans don’t like the first candidate because he is too liberal on some issues while other Republicans oppose the second candidate because he is too conservative. As a result, factions arise and infighting begins.

The Republican Party is divided nationally and dissention thrives the state level. Nevertheless, the real Hatfields and McCoys argue and fight at the local level, including Gregg County, Texas. Consequently, Gregg County Republicans managed to render their own party nearly ineffective.
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