We Are Spoiled in the Good Ol USA
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.
