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God Help Us

Roy Dettwiler

Published: February 24, 2009

I found a great deal of interesting reading in the paper last week. I read that Steve Chapman is offering corn-fed Iowa some of Illinois' overabundance of indicted officials, as a bonus offering them Lake Michigan and a baseball team. I suppose every state could find some things it would be willing to offer, in a reasonable exchange! The whole country is in a meltdown.
Another thing I read was the revelation that Floridians give President Obama high approval ratings. Now, I know that many of us are retirees on fixed incomes, and we are grateful for any freebies we can get, but are we willing to have them charged to our children and great-grandchildren? Who is going to pay these bills when they come due? A few trillion dollars would seem to be quite a chunk of change!
They are going to need a serious bailout when the time comes. We better hope there is a God. He is the only one who can bail them out in their extremity (see the Bible for His offer!)
Roy Dettwiler
Avon Park