RANT really not base on Revelation 1:4-20 at all

Rant time: The commentator concludes with one of her examples, "Do you despair of the rulers of this world ever 'getting it right' of dealing responsibly with the horrors of poverty and caring for the environment?"

That makes the assumption that it is the "rulers" responsibility doesn't it? So many assumptions in that comment that I think deserve discussion. What rights do we have that we must demand from our government?

The constitution says we have inalienable rights given by our creator. We demand our government do things it cannot do well. Nor should it.

If we have family that need help why shouldn't we help them? So many people would rather try to pass responsibility on to our government. After all, they say what do we pay taxes for? What indeed.

We should be paying taxes for infrastructure, defense, education, and an efferor to make capitalism a level playing field. All this entitlement stuff is us trying to get out of our own responsibilities.

What is it Paul Harvey used to say, democracy will not work without self discipline. That aphorism is still true today. When we refuse to be respoonsible as a people we make our country more and more impossible to govern.

This Goldman Sachs thing is certainly an example. Assuming they are guilty of something the problem can only be "fixed" after the fact. No law or regulation will really stop something like this from happening again. People need to act responsibly on both sides of the table. Those making these complicated instruments should be honest. And that will not happen 100% of the time.

It rests on us the ones buying these instruments to resist the sales talk which essentially relies on greed. A greedy fool will most likely get taken. Warren Buffet and Louis Rukeyser before him said "stay out of investing in things you do not understand." But we are lazy, impatient, and greedy and we do not listen.

The people defrauding the investor does deserve punishment but there will be new ones. So you must always be wary. Take time to understand the investment. And if it is too complicated stay out. And if it is too good to be true, it probably is.

I have little patience for those decrying the world and people like this new "wiz" who got GS into trouble. If we didn't listen to them they could not be the swindlers they seem to be. We let them because we want to believe.

Then we have this new health care. To me it is funny (sad) listening to the Obama administration complaining about GS when they have just sold us a ponzi scheme much bigger. They are still trying to claim this will be cheaper and it will come less in the long run. Do they really believe this? Don't we have other countries with universal health care to show us it is not true?

Many people think they are getting free or cheaper health care. It can only happen if they take the money from others. It is essentially stealing. But it will be called fees and taxes.

I hear a lot of commercials on the radio proclaiming relief from credit card and mortgage debt. These are debts that you chose to make. Surely you can be responsible and pay them off. These commercials tell you you are innocent and have a right to get some kind of federal bail out money. Even if it is true aren't you just stealing money from fellow citizens?

Did Obama and the congress really pass such a bill? If they did it is not free. It is costing our government a lot of money. Money that they took from productive people in taxes. We have nothing against paying our taxes for legitimate expenses. I think most of think it is not legitimate to spend our money to bail out foolish people who ran up too much debt so they could buy a house they could not afford or a big TV they could not afford.

This rant is too long, if you got this far, God bless you.