The government is definitely overreaching and you see this not in the political realm but also the social realm as well. The barrage of debate questions have an increasing amount of “social topics” as well as the standard “political/economic” stuff. I am unnerved that candidates increasingly have less and less to offer on the latter and have an overactive imaginatin on the former. It is arguable that government doesnt even belong in certain areas of social issues that they are in now. But with regard to the economic and political, the trite stuff of printing ever increasing amounts of money, borrowing ever increasing amount of debt to pay off current debt, more and more third party insurance that nationalizes losses and privatizes gains, and lets just bombs away regardless of boundaries and alliances have all betrayed how technology has lowered the bar of leadership in diplomacy and economic principles and good old fashioned planning. ironically, technology will also amplify the repercussions of bad leadership.

yes the fabric of america has changed where savings is demonized as an economic evil and spending is good and you have seen advertisements move from mere descriptions of product functionality to how the product can make you happy. Well the savings rate of America is on average negative and the GDP is already running with 70% from consumption (not counting housing). So policy makers are asking how do we get it to 75% to grow GDP?

I think these are all the trends where people want to be told what to do, they want a savior from this mess…It pains me that McCain’s stiff arms are parodied by comedians. That stiffness was due to pow torture and definitely makes him look really bad against Hollywood’s bodacious candidate. But why mock a man for his sacrifices for his country?

i’ll get a blog of my own instead of crashing yours. did i answer the question?

I raised that in my sermon on Sunday. The limits of Torah on the human heart. Sermon is on my Blog.