Weather State and You

2/22/2019

Many parts of the country are suffering from these Winter storms, be it heavy snow or thunderstorms dumping rain. I sure hope we don’t have other areas in a dry Winter or drought, because a vast amount of salt-free water is going to be wasted, along with topsoils in simple runoff and melting snow and Ice. I’ve seen a lot of odd weather events in my time, and perhaps even things this strange. And, we always seem to overcome the damages. But, for some reason this (all rain, where we live) seems worse than many other phenomena. 

Do I think this is a sign of something biblical? No, but it does seem to be a sign of some mis-management of resources, everything from locating garden plots on the wrong side of the property all the way to cloud “seeding.” We, as a race of peoples, do many things with and to and on our soil that even 50 years ago, we wouldn’t allow the thought of doing. Then again, for more than 80 years, farmers “turned” the soil every year in preparing to plant. Turns out there’s a better way to prepare for most crops. (We don’t see many bottom plows used today.) As I said, we always seem to fix our mistakes, usually coming by some odd circumstance not unlike this weather. Makes me wonder what farmers who are in tune will come up with as a good change to make now. Also, I wonder if the Farmer’s Almanac is still a reliable guess for figuring out what to do come Spring.

For many years, I have spoken out against farm subsidies as being a bad interference by the federal government, blaming it for everything which turned out bad or wrong for farmers. I was laboring under the mis-(or lack of)-information I was taught in the political world while I was too young to know exactly what was going on. I recall being told in about 1955-57, in junior high, that President Eisenhower, with Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, were responsible for farm subsidies. I’ve been wrong all these years, I have denigrated their names. It wasn’t them who started farm  subsidies, it was the old liberal himself, Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1933!

You might say, well, he didn’t have any choice, the Great Depression, you know. As farmers always know, and we should know, there is always a choice. Left alone, the agrarian society of hard working Americans would have figured it out. Just look at what has become of us since. We’ve fought in nearly endless wars, claiming victory in the world war, then, entering into a part of the world to fight in 40 plus years since we had “victory.” Fighting and “winning” a cold war which has not yet been won by anyone. Today, arguing wildly and incessantly against a man who wants to do something about it, while our central government (originally powerless without our permission) runs roughshod over just about everyone and everything. And, by the way, even he can’t see any other way to help the farm industry without subsidies (oh, here’s a thought: farming became an industry? I thought farming was just another part of the community.)

So, am I blaming FDR for this plight? Nope, 20 years before FDR, another unreliable president sold the nation to a cartel of 9 bankers and persuaded congress to do two things: selling them on the notion of giving up its constitutional responsibility of issuing currency (giving that privilege over to the 9 bankers) and instituting an unlawful tax on the personal income of every sovereign citizen of the United States. In the long run, these two things have stolen away individual states’ rights to any form of sovereignty and that, in turn, diminishes the individual rights of people anywhere, being made subject to anything the federal government does or says. If you don’t believe me, try being independent of the federal influence, you’ll see.

If anyone in the new candidacy list for president should happen to win, the new man or woman would expand the feds, confiscate other industries the way the health insurance industry has been subjugated, bringing us closer and closer to the disastrous methodology called socialism. Is that where you want to be? 

Farmers? is that you? Preachers? is that you? Small town bankers? Is that you? Public school teachers? Is that you? Entrepreneurs? Is that you? I hope none of you, nor any other profession believes the feds know best! Just take a look at things which they now purport to run better than the private sector! There is nothing which is run better by bureaucrats than by individuals who are provided an incentive to do all things well.

So, do I blame Wilson? or FDR? or Ike? how bout LBJ? Carter, Clinton, Bush x2? or Obama? No, they’ve all been used by THE enemy (he’s bigger than any government except One.) Even though, as Reagan said, “the 9 words to fear the most are, I’m from the government, and I’m here to help!” No one or two presidents, or even one political party is to blame. It’s just history repeating itself once again. 

The only way out of this mess is to go way out with the One; the Lord Jesus Christ, even so, Lord Jesus, come on down and get us. We’re ready, right? If not, “believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved”—ready.

Thanks for reading, the Elder