OUTRAGE

Ok, so as usual my phone and internet were off from the first to the third because my provider won't change the date of payment due and Social Security won't let me have my disability on the first of the month like anyone on normal retirement.  Glad that's off my chest at least because as you know I normally try to stay away from politics when I'm speaking of religion.  But the thing is that I am a poor man I admit.  The last time I filled out papers for Soc. Sec. they rated me at 125% below poverty level.  To be honest that doesn't really bother me.  Of coarse I would love to have more money.  Who wouldn't?  But I had to come to grips with the fact long ago that this is my lot in life, but that there are other more important ways I can help others.  But two things that do upset me about politics is when they assume that we are all stupid and when they try to do things that will hurt Christianity.  Today they seem to be trying both.  Now I freely admit that most of my studies have been in either the field of psychology or that of Biblical studies and application.  But I have had enough business training to know that 2+2 will never equal eleven.  Last July when the fiscal year started the state of Kansas said that they did not have enough money to meet the budget.  So they held off on things like the school budget, (got to have our priorities strait and we see where our kids education falls in,) until they could find a way to fix the problem which they actually did. How, you ask?  They simply decided to borrow it.  But who to borrow from?  Who might have an extra $400,000,000 lying around?  And the answer was obviously --- themselves!  Yep, they simply borrowed it against future expected income.  Yes, I have studied enough accounting and investments to know what happens if you or I try this kind of bookkeeping with a business but this is the government so apparently it's ok. But that was last July and the only reason I mention it is because of the news today.  I didn't see where either article was really explained in the news but when you take out the fancy talk here is what you are left with for actual content.  1)  The city of Wichita announced that it may raise the sales tax in order to finance an undisclosed loan to investors in order for them to build a mega hotel with the money to be paid back over 2 decades which is 20 years to you and I.  Now this is all bad enough to me in this economy, but a spokesperson actually explained that it wasn't really costing the taxpayers anything because it's just a loan will be repayed in 20 years.  Okay, then I say we just let them save their payments for 20 years and build it then instead of raising our taxes.  I think this one was plotted for the "Are you smarter than a fifth grader?" losers.  2.)   The state of Kansas announced today that it is looking at running out of monry before they tun out of fiscal yeat.  (deja vu anyone)  Actually at the rate it's going we are projected to be roughly $400,000,000 dollars short.  (I know I've seen that number somewhere before)  But the official did say that they have come up with 2 new ideas for raising money that they plan to try ang get through ths state legislature. No, they aren't going to ask Wichita for a loan.  Actually they want to srart charging sales tax on lottery tickets to start with.  I don't really care about this, but I do remember that when the lottery was made legal in Kansas we were promised that that would raise more income for the state than we could ever spend.  But what really bothers me is that they also want to start making churches which are non-profits pay sales tax.  Now maybe I'm too touchy, but I notice that they are only listing legally registered churches.  The wording will not include temples, or covens, or mosques or anything else other than churches.  And what religion owns over 90% of churches in Kansas? I'll leave that up to you to figutr out but if it doesn/t contain thr name Christ you guessed wrong.  So while I am not allowed to endorse any politician I am begging you that if you live in Kansas go to www.kansas.gov and look up every state official and remind them that there will be an election next November and that you will remember how they vote on this issue because it is an unfair attack on Christianity.