Puffs

Now I’ve heard it all . . . no, I’m sure something else will come up in the future to change that statement.

What I’m talking about is the latest reason the U. S. government seems to be such a condition that many, many people have lost faith in it and the current president.

Someone in the government explained the president’s apparent bumbling of most everything from the southern border to Afghanistan by saying: “Biden is doing the best he can.”

As if the current problem(s) (and there are many) are not his fault, but because of someone else. Most likely those conservatives in the Senate.

I have never heard of a president being excused for just “doing the best he can.” Truman wasn’t excused during the Korean War; Kennedy wasn’t excused for the ‘Bay of Pigs;’ Bush wasn’t excused for the Mid-Eastern wars and Trump wasn’t excused because of all the racial riots; for “doing their best.”

I’m certainly no expert on national policy, domestic or world-wide, but I’d like to comment on the current effort by the liberals in Congress to pass a 3.2 million dollar bill they call a “human infrastructure” effort. From what I understand it is not only intended to either “build” or “rebuild” those basic structures needed in any society to function properly. It is also intended to reduce unemployment, boost wages and allow the government to ‘manage’ society according to their own desires.

We hear the current “supply” problems every day from the U. S. media. This may, or may not, be connected to the $3.2 billion dollar effort by liberals in Congress. However, I read about two theories this weekend that have a bearing on both this supply problem and on the billion dollar effort to help the economy and solve all kinds of problems.

I mention the second thing in importance first. The government has added dollar after dollar to the economy in current years. So much money that we continue to ‘borrow’ money at record rates. So much that we have exceeded the limit Congress had set. Putting all this money to add to the other money, will not solve the problem. Unemployment is at a record low, which is great, employers are looking for more workers all the time. Putting all this extra money out there will not solve anything, except to add to the U. S. government and push us along to a socialist society where the government controls “everything.”

The most important thing I read last weekend was a small quote from ‘Mother Teresa’, (now St. Teresa of Calcutta). Talking of Poverty (which the liberal say this spending bill will help solve) Mother Teresa said: “Poverty is not material, Rather, it is spiritual.”

Now . . . that is something to think about. I would contend that both Democrats and Republicans don’t give this thought a lot of consideration and that many citizens think little of this quote.

However, how many years has it been since good ole President Johnson began what we call “The War on Poverty?”

From what the liberals tell us today, these past 60 years or so has been a waste of time and money as we have more poverty in the U. S. than ever.

While our president contents he is a “Good Catholic” (whatever that is) and is ‘spiritual’, his actions make me believe he is a ‘Socialist’ and can solve all the problems with just a “little” more money and control by the government.

Please pray for him and his ‘like-minded’ people in today’s government that they might just interject something other than “material dollars and control” into society today.

A O

Aging . . . something we all hope to do, and then complain about it when it gets here.

Most people accept aging with grace and moderation. Some people argue with it and some complain about it, and others laugh at it.

I heard a new viewpoint on aging just last week.

It came from a woman who seemed to become aware that she was not as young as she used to be and in the discussion noted that “she was half way to 84,” as her way to handle whatever discomforts in life she was encountering.

Now, with my limited math ability I quickly figure out she was most likely only 42 years old, but liked to use the bigger number to describe what she was going through.

I’ve thought at times that I could say I’m almost 80, but I still have a year or two to go and that may not be correct. But maybe I’d be OK with saying that “I’m half way to 154.”

Be well, and accept whatever age you are with grace and dignity.

A O