St. Starbucks

O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? (Galatians 3:1) In a wide circle of friends and acquaintances and even people who have never met me, if you ask the question, who is the tightest man with money you know, they would all give my name; because I am known far and wide for my frugality. I have never been in a Starbucks. To think of paying $2.50 plus for a cup of coffee, is as far from my mind as taking a walk off the top of my house. Recently, a university educator said to me, “We will go to a Starbucks for a cup of coffee.” I said to him, “If you can afford to go to a Starbucks, you are being paid too much.”

I don't want any crocodile tears about this recession from vehicular traffic, from the lines at restaurants, from the advertisers of radio and television. It is obvious that we are not in a recession. This week, it was announced that Garth Brooks would come out of retirement and give 15 concerts at Las Vegas. Within a few minutes, at $125 a seat, in a theater that seats 1000 people all tickets were sold. I am told by sighted people, that there are very few empty seats at athletic events, where seats sell from $100 - $250. I am told there has been little drop in movie attendance, airline flights, in weddings, (The average wedding now costs $30,000.)

Even though every agency in the federal government with debt that can never be repaid, such as Social Security, Medicare, Postal System. The man who has never worked one day in his life, as Commander in Chief, who has never shot a BB gun, who spends more time on Airforce 1, than any president in my memory, now is giving $18 billion to all Social Security recipients, a check for $250 to each.

Where is the outrage? Do not parents realize that their children, grandchildren, as far as the eye can see, will be in debt, and enslaved, to a communist authoritarian government?

Where are the conservatives? It is bad enough to live by the rules of the unsaved, the liberal lawbreakers, who have never known God's laws. Think of living under the laws of liberal politicians. The law makers exempt themselves from their own laws. The 50% who vote for the liberal lawmakers and liberal administration, know nothing of law keeping or conservation. Conservatives save in every way, their money, their health, their time, their environment, even their spiritual concern for everyone.

Only with conservatives do you have liberty and freedom which is in Jesus Christ. (2 Corinthians 3:17). The Holy Spirit of God living in you gives you the perfection only found in the life of Jesus Christ, who was truly a conservative, even when he fed the thousands, from a small boy's lunch, which a blessed mother had thought to prepare, they took up baskets of fragments and leftovers. You can give without loving; but you cannot love without giving. The money you have flitted away, in buying stupid things such as expensive coffee, you will never be able to invest for your personal welfare or give to God so that He can do his miracles.

Christ in you, the hope of glory.