Reading the Idaho Press-Tribune today, Eric Muhr in For the Record, reports that – Of the world’s 17 leading nations, the United States tops the list for having the largest percentage of it’s population living in poverty.

I wonder if we don’t have our wants and appetites set too high in this country. I have been in the third world as I am sure many of you have. I never went as a tourist and always have stayed or lived with or among the natives. Out where they have none of the things we think we can’t live without, they have never had and never will. Do they miss them? No. Even many homeless people here live better than the general population in some places.

The first time I spent time in several nations of Asia I came home and looked at how we live, how spoiled we are, the waste, and I got mad. We don’t even appreciate the freedoms we have enjoyed in this great Republic we have and all we do is want, we become slaves of our wants. I think there is something in the Ten Commandments and other places in the Word of God about that but our government is telling us we can’t have them anymore. I bet you have a Bible laying around somewhere though if you look hard enough, if you don’t you can go to E-Sword and download an excellent program with lots of bibles and resources for free.

I hope this raise’s a few hackles, look around, read about the founding of this nation. A good book to start is “The Light and the Glory” by Peter Marshall and David Manuel.

I was just talking to a good friend Ron who lives in Tucson when I got an email from another friend. In the email was a link to ‘military humor’ which gave us a good laugh and as we looked at the pictures the subject of P-51’s came up.

That takes us to another web site about the Spam Can which is some of my scribbling on the web. On that site is a blip titled “The ‘February’ and it’s pilot Lt. Jim Brooks” which is the story of a WW II pilot and his plane. Go and watch the trailer at that link with Jim and his grandkids.

If these kinds of stories don’t stir you up a little then there may not be any hope for you. Things these guy and gals did fight for and are fighting for, and we see those things our freedoms being taken away. How must those people that gave their lives or part of their life feel today?