The commercial of the year back in 1984 may have been Wendy's..."Where's the beef?" Walter Mondale successfully took up on the concept in his campaign against Gary Hart. The Wendy's commercials called a fictional competitor's business..."The Home Of The Big Bun." We are today indeed being served 'big bun hamburgers" and what we have to do with each and every serving is look in the middle to see if there is any beef.
One major conservative news site titled its headline something similar to this......"Promise Kept! Trump Levels China Trade Imbalance." Another news site....a major business website....questioned what was going on here....as nothing made sense....'Why would Xi Jinping do this? These projections are impossible....What are the details? North Korea has to be involved some way.'
Our leaders....whether they be Trump's people.....or the Congress.....or the Clinton/Obama people.....treat us with the lowest possible level of respect....keeping us out of the details....embellishing when necessary.....outright lying when necessary....and generally condescending as the chief characteristic of their vocation in government.
In March of 2017 our Republican leadership came to us with this great bill that would repeal Obamacare. Everyone rejoiced. President Trump worked the phones for a week telling members of Congress how good it was. The only problem was that it wasn't good....it was bad....real bad. The Freedom Caucus looked inside the bun. This upset President Trump. He threatened the best shepherds that we have.
As I drove home from church today I passed a nice little house where the entire front yard was enclosed by neatly trimmed thick hedges. It had an archway and gate at the front. I had been...for other reasons...studying sheepfolds of late....and that is the image that came to mind with this front yard. Jesus said...."He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep." (John 10 ESV)
There was a day when it was said that we 'owned' what we said or we 'owned' the decision that we made. We don't 'own' anything anymore. Politicians don't own their promises or even their stated beliefs....and certainly not the oaths that they took....they're all hired hands.... "China is a currency manipulator....no it isn't....yes it is." So America in the upper echelons of it's power structure is like that.....and Donald Trump.....over his lifetime one of the more celebrated perpetrators of America's lack of ethics.....says that he is going to make America great again....he gets some money flowing of which the love of is a source of America's lack of ethics....and then he says.....job done.....America is great again! It all makes sense....but only to those who couldn't find their way out of a Lazy River inner tube at one of the Trump resorts. Kurt Vonnegut couldn't make this kind of stuff up.
One major conservative news site titled its headline something similar to this......"Promise Kept! Trump Levels China Trade Imbalance." Another news site....a major business website....questioned what was going on here....as nothing made sense....'Why would Xi Jinping do this? These projections are impossible....What are the details? North Korea has to be involved some way.'
Our leaders....whether they be Trump's people.....or the Congress.....or the Clinton/Obama people.....treat us with the lowest possible level of respect....keeping us out of the details....embellishing when necessary.....outright lying when necessary....and generally condescending as the chief characteristic of their vocation in government.
In March of 2017 our Republican leadership came to us with this great bill that would repeal Obamacare. Everyone rejoiced. President Trump worked the phones for a week telling members of Congress how good it was. The only problem was that it wasn't good....it was bad....real bad. The Freedom Caucus looked inside the bun. This upset President Trump. He threatened the best shepherds that we have.
As I drove home from church today I passed a nice little house where the entire front yard was enclosed by neatly trimmed thick hedges. It had an archway and gate at the front. I had been...for other reasons...studying sheepfolds of late....and that is the image that came to mind with this front yard. Jesus said...."He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep." (John 10 ESV)
There was a day when it was said that we 'owned' what we said or we 'owned' the decision that we made. We don't 'own' anything anymore. Politicians don't own their promises or even their stated beliefs....and certainly not the oaths that they took....they're all hired hands.... "China is a currency manipulator....no it isn't....yes it is." So America in the upper echelons of it's power structure is like that.....and Donald Trump.....over his lifetime one of the more celebrated perpetrators of America's lack of ethics.....says that he is going to make America great again....he gets some money flowing of which the love of is a source of America's lack of ethics....and then he says.....job done.....America is great again! It all makes sense....but only to those who couldn't find their way out of a Lazy River inner tube at one of the Trump resorts. Kurt Vonnegut couldn't make this kind of stuff up.
