As I have continued to listen to the new administration, and listen to the news reports of increased governmental bailouts, now approaching ONE TRILLION DOLLARS I can’t help but wonder, is this really the answer for our country? Is this how the economy is re-stimulated? And is this redistribution of wealth from those who earn it to those who don’t what a “balanced economy” is like?

I am reminded on some wise and insightful words by my now deceased friend and mentor (as he was to so many) Adrian Rogers (who served as pastor of the great Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis) regarding our government….

“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by
Legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person
receives without working for, another person must work for
without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody
anything that the government does not first take from
somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that
they do not have to work because the other half is going to
take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea
that it does no good to work because somebody else is going
to get what they work for, that my dear friend,* *is about
the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by
dividing it.”

And these words were spoken long before Barak Obama ran for, or took office. So they are not directed toward a personality at all…but rather toward a mindset.

But back to the issue at hand, it is one thing to say that the redistribution of wealth is a great idea…until it impacts you. I know of a man from Texas recently who was on a trip and walked into a restaurant where the waiter was wearing an Obama tie and wearing an Obama button. Interested, he asked the waiter, “Do you support Mr. Obama’s positions.”

“I sure do!” he responded with smile.

“So, you believe in the redistribution of wealth for our society?”

“Absolutely!” was the immediate response.

“I see,” the diner replied. “Then I’ll put that into practice. When I walked into the restaurant there was a homeless man outside begging for money. So, rather than giving you the tip you worked for, I’ll take it to him as I leave, so that way you can experience first hand a contribution to the redistribution of wealth.”

With the waiter standing slack-jawed, stunned and more than a bit upset, the customer paid for the meal, left the eating establishment and promptly dropped the tip into the cup of the homeless gentleman outside. And all the while the waiter stood fuming over the policy which he had seen exercised first hand…and up close. A little too close for comfort.

Strange how things look completely different when the chickens come home to roost!

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