Converting the primitives on the mission field

As we make preparations for a missionary deployment to Vietnam, I wish that there was some way that I could print money.

I wish I had a money machine.

What? --you think that's silly?

The U.S. Congress is at the moment, on a missionary enterprise of its own, trying to convert us primitives--on the mission field of America--on the only way to end our national recession. Congress' solution? --an orgy of spending.

President Obama, who's the front man for this idea, has preached a message that failure to pass the economic stimulus package (read: spending orgy) will result in a “catastrophe”--those are his words.

Since he’s about to be handed one trillion dollars, I wonder what will happen if the stimulus bill (spending orgy) does pass? For example...

Why are hundreds of billions in this bill being spent on frivolous stuff?

I wonder why most of the spending is slated to occur after the recession will likely be over?

Since the U.S. doesn’t have the money in the spending bill, how much money will the Government have to print? (This is the part I wish I could do!)

And, since the U.S. Congress is fond of throwing the phrase "exit strategy" in the faces of our military planners--what's Obama's exit strategy if the spending orgy actually does harm?

*Sigh* I, guess I should help convert primitives on the mission field, so...

...I'm going to tell my nieces and nephews, "Get a government job!"

Obama's tax-dodgers

Note to the democrat party: Taxes are not voluntary.

Missionaries and aid workers

As we make preparations for a missionary deployment, we just learned Monday that an American worker for the United Nations has been kidnapped in Pakistan.

YAHOO! News | Quetta, Pakistan – Authorities searched for an American U.N. worker kidnapped Monday in southwestern Pakistan in an attack that underscored the security threats in the country as it battles al-Qaida militants.

The government called the abduction a “terrorist act,” but police said it was not clear whether it was Islamist militants, or criminals seeking a ransom payment who were responsible.

Gunmen seized John Solecki, head of the U.N. refugee office in the city of Quetta, as he traveled to work Monday morning, and shot and killed his driver, U.N. and Pakistani officials said.

Does he count as an American if he is working for the UN? Well, yes, I suppose he does.

But the lowest form of human is to attack a missionary or an aid worker who's there in-country to help the locals.

Did you notice the second paragraph, above? --it's a sick world when you have to hope that the American was kidnapped by criminals, rather than Islamic clergy. The criminals might let him live.

*Sigh* this may be a pop quiz for Obama, before the big test...