Floating Fire Ants

A friend of mine, and politically polar opposite, had pressed me a few times on the question of just what are we to do to get out of this mess of our national debt that now stands at over $14 trillion. He was not happy with my answer that we cannot get out of the mess. His response was what kind of answer is that and implied that I was, in effect, giving up. I think that the number of blogs here over the past two and a half years, and the content of those blogs show that giving up is not and has never been an option. Our national debt cannot be paid. The Leftists in this administration know that. This isn't a concern to them for they have always wanted a new schema of taxation in America to give them the monies for their programs that are intended to guarantee their continued power and cement the dependency of the people at their feet; and a new paradigm for defining "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness". This debt is an attempt to do that. Sound economic policy was never their goal. They have succeeded in their real goal to drive us near unto bankruptcy. No, there is no answer for this debt. The closest thing to it would be slowing down the inevitable by reversing course of which we certainly must do.The financial situation is only one arm of this multi-limbed god of destruction. Our culture, as it stands now, can neither support nor sustain any reversal, and our foreign policy is merely an extension of the President's reelection plan. There is indeed an answer but it is not in a financial fix. The answer is in another sphere in the now that we have come to this point, how do we deal with it arena. If we retain carpe diem as our philosophy of life there will eventually be no day to seize. A proverb of Solomon is Go to the ant, you sluggard! Consider her ways and be wise. There's a report coming out shortly in a scientific journal where it has been determined that the Fire Ants survive floods in the Brazilian rain forests by using air pockets in their bodies and clasping on to one another, in other words forming a living raft upon which they can even save their young and their food. No, we may not be able to stop the flood coming upon us but we can ride atop it, for the Creator of the ant and of man are One and the same. Providing that God should even have mercy on us to survive as a nation, there would be more satisfaction in life living through hard times in acknowledgement of Him than living without Him in what we would falsely consider prosperous times. There is our answer!

The following is the first few lines of a prayer found in the Valley Of Vision, edited by Arthur Bennett:

O my forgetful soul
Awake from thy wandering dream
turn from chasing vanities,
look inward, forward, upward,
view thyself,
reflect upon thyself,
who and what thou art, why here,
what thou must soon be,
Thou are a creature of God,
formed and furnished by him,
lodged in a body like a shepherd in his tent,
Dost thou not desire to know God's ways?