Why Pay Now, What We Can Pay For Later?

As the current budget crisis in California deepens ($24.3 billion in the red) we are at a crossroad. We have a choice. Revenues have shrunk due to the recession (less jobs means less tax money). A decrees in money means a decrees in spending or an increase in taxes. I HATE TAXES! Taxes suck, it's my money and I want to spend it on me. After all I earned it. Those 1 million low income children don't need health care. Welfare to work programs, come on. Really? I mean really? Those people just need to go get jobs and leave us responsible people alone. Oh yeah how about primary school education? Those teachers are under worked and over paid as it is. I mean they only work 9 months a year. Besides we suck at educating our youngest generation anyway. In that category the third world might have an edge on us. And by us I mean U.S. Where do we really go from here. Someone has to pay, but nobody want to. So as is our history for the last 30 or so years we will heap problems on the next generation of Americans. Too bad they'll be sickly, uneducated, and without the social security that we'll get to enjoy. That's okay though, at least we won't have to pay 2% more in taxes.

To God's faithful servants, I didn't forget about you. I know you love to hang on to your money and abide to the capitalist philosophy of what's mine is mine. Here's what God had to say: "For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that. People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs." 1 Timothy 6:7-10. How about this: "Do not love the world (money?) or anything in the world (money?). If anyone loves the world (money?), the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world (like money?) - the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has (money or things?) and does - comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires (money and things?) pass away, but the man who does the will of God (help the poor and those in need?) lives forever." 1 John 2:15-17.