Volume 25, Issue 5
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WisconsinChristianNews.com
Letters to the Editor
Living In ‘Twilight Zone’ America
Editor, Wisconsin Christian News: September 2024
• People who have never been to college should pay the debts of college students who took out huge loans for their degrees. • Immigrants with tuberculosis and polio are welcome, but you’d
to get into the country you go to college for free. • People who say there is no such thing as gender are demand- ing a female President. • We see other countries going Socialist and collapsing, but it seems like a great plan to us. • Some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, and other people are not held respon- sible for what they are doing right now. • Criminals are caught-and-released to hurt more people, but stopping them is bad because it’s a violation of THEIR rights. • And pointing out all this hypocrisy somehow makes us “racists?!” Nothing makes sense anymore, no values, no morals, no civility. We are clearly living in an upside down world where right is wrong and wrong is right, where moral is immoral and immoral is moral, where good is evil and evil is good, where killing murderers is wrong, but killing innocent babies is right. Wake up America, the great unsinkable ship Titanic America has hit an iceberg, is taking on water, and is sinking fast. The choice is yours to make. What will it be? Time is short, make your choice wisely!
I woke up and as I had my morning coffee, I realized that every- thing is about to change. No matter how I vote, no matter what I say, something evil has invaded our nation, and our lives are never going to be the same. I have been confused by the hostility of family and friends. I look at people I have known all my life — so hate-filled that they agree with opinions they would never express as their own. I think that I may well have entered the Twilight Zone. You can't justify this insanity. We have become a nation that has lost its collective mind! • If a man pretends to be a woman, you are required to pre- tend with him. • Somehow it’s un-American for the census to count how many Americans are in America. • Russians influencing our elections are bad, but illegals vot- ing in our elections are good. • It was cool for Joe Biden to “blackmail” the President of Ukraine, but it’s an impeachable offense if Donald Trump inquires about it. • Twenty is too young to drink a beer, but eighteen is old enough to vote. • People who have never owned slaves should pay slavery repa- rations to people who have never been slaves.
better be able to prove your dog is vaccinated. • Irish doctors and German engineers who want to immigrate to the US must go through a rigorous vetting process, but any illiter- ate gang-bangers who jump the southern fence are welcome. • $5 billion for border security is too expensive, but $1.5 trillion for “free” health care is not. • If you cheat to get into college you go to prison, but if you cheat
-Harold Pydo, Lake Mills, Wis.
America’s Debt Clock Is About To Strike Midnight
Editor, Wisconsin Christian News: September 2024
has not changed. JFK was assassinated in 1963 and at year’s end $306 B in debt. In Reagan’s first year, 1981, it almost reached a Trillion dollars. When he left, $2.6 Trillion. Wisconsin Senator Prox- mire retired about that time. When Clinton bowed out we were $5.7 T in debt. Bush left us with with $10 T. Obama with $19.57 Tril- lion. The general trend seems from 2000 to 2019 the debt was rising a little more than one trillion per year. $5.67 T to $22.7. In 2020, Trump’s last year, it leapt to $26.9 Trillion. Now, to mimic a Johnny Cash song, “How high is the debt, Joe Biden? Well it’s thirty five trillion and risin.” Likely over $36 T be- fore the election results are in. Who is to blame? Well, it seems to be a true biparti- san effort of pass the buck and point the finger. While some, as Proxmire, have sounded the alarm, every President and every con- gress is to blame. The mainstream media for downplaying or ignoring the issue, were their en- ablers. But at the heart of it all have been the electorate with a “benefit” addiction. A morally bankrupt soci- ety. Wanting their goodies, but unwilling to pay for them. Free “this,” free “that,” the government will
pay for it, but they have not. Thus we just keep ac- cumulating ever greater debt. Think about it. It took 51 years to go from $17 B to $1 T, but just 28 years to get to $10 T. Now in just 16 years the debt has more than tripled. One of the more shocking parts of the late Senator’s speech was that he, a democrat, hoped his party would not win the next presidency...why? He thought even then that a crash was imminent. America would finally have to own up, that we had spent ourselves into bank- ruptcy. Another country music legend in, “I wish a buck was still silver,” asked, “Are we rolling down hill like a snowball headed for hell?” That snowball, once man- ageable, has become a massive iceberg such as the one that sank the Ti- tanic, yet we happily sail along as the band plays on. Short of Divine interven- tion I don’t see a resolu- tion. Over the years, politicians in both parties have demonstrated a com- plete lack of resolve to tackle this problem. I’ll leave you to ponder this with a partial quote from Revelations 18:2, “... ‘Baby- lon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils and the hold of every foul spirit...’”
Eric Hovde ran an inter- esting campaign ad. Not re- cently, but when he first tried for the Republican Senate nomination. He eventually lost to Tommy Thompson. In the ad, as I recall, Hovde was walking on blocks representing our national debt until they be- came too high to even climb. I hope his team runs a similar ad this time. I also recall reading our for- mer Senator Proxmire’s re- tirement speech in the 1980s. At the time our na- tion’s debt was about two trillion dollars. In a nut- shell he thought our nation was doomed if we didn’t confront our addiction to debt. I encourage readers to re- search that history. The site I consulted only went back to 1929. That year the Stockmarket crashed and Hoover was President. Here are a few “highlights” re- garding the debt: In 1929, it was $17 Bil- lion. Note these numbers are not adjusted for today’s dollar value. When FDR took the helm in 1933, it rose from $20 B to $27 B by year’s end. When he died in 1945, that year would end with a $259 B debt. You may say, “Yes, but the Great Depression, WWII, etc.” Yet, the trend
-Bill Behringer, Winneconne, WI
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