It really is amazing how numbed we can become about things. One Facebook friend recently said "All Republicans think about is abortion". Abortion has been around so long that apparently it has become trivial. The statement was misguided but a very enlightening thought on how  the subject is not important - to her.

She went on to say how medicare will be taken away if Republicans get in office. It boggles the mind how one could come to the conclusion that reforming something to make it solvent is taking it away!

Of course,  President Obama said if the conservatives don't cooperate we may have to cut back on medicare and social security.   We  give billions to other countries BUT "cutting" something people have been paying into for forty years is the place he'd cut?  Go figure!  Does that even make sense?

It seemed like such a nice thing to make it so easy for people without proof they could handle paying back a house loan - to get one anyway - but look what happened?  They tried twice during Bush years to get some sort of watch dog provision in force but it was refused by the Democrats!  It caused mayhem.    The banks couldn't handle the losses.   But the banks were blamed.

A high school classmate - who was brought up a Democrat was telling us - at our h.s. reunion how there is a place near Memphis, TN where he lives, that is called "the Projects". Everyone knows that is a place where all the people live on welfare in nice apartments and children are brought up to follow in the parents footsteps and continue to live on welfare. Everything is provided for them so why bother!

The nation was in financial trouble so you would think the normal reaction would be to go through the budget and clean up wasteful spending (like normal people do with the family budget)! We don't have to be college professors to understand the most elementary of solutions!

That makes me wonder, then, why there are those who don't get it?  Either they are so rich (through inheritance only) and they can't imagine the importance of working to make ends meet or they have had things provided for them so easily by someone else that it's just second nature.  Who knows?  We did have a "charming" leader.  (Obama)  Too bad charm isn't a cure all!

To hear any "Christians" say that Jesus would want us to give to those who are in need is a real puzzler since our Democratic government leaders undermine Christianity by bowing to atheists demands to remove the  10 commandments or any visible reminders of the Christian faith. Take God out of schools by removing prayer at graduations - but give to the poor?  Christian's  are indeed told to give to the poor...but a nation who refuses to acknowledge God and takes any reminders of him out of public squares?  It's ludicrous!  We give things in Christ's name but the government wants us to reject Christ and give the glory to IT.  I have a problem with that.  Don't you?