Foundations

David Rockefeller, banker, member of the world's wealthiest family, the Rockefeller's, in his 2002 autobiography, Memoirs, said that people on earth are the “common herd”. Margaret Sanger, nurse, founder of Planned Parenthood, in her book Family Limitation referred to black children as weeds.

These two Americans like the present evil president, who has promoted a culture of death involving abortion, euthanasia, same sex marriage, like other members of his administration, and the democrat party, are ALL progenitors of the Bilderberger and Illuminati promoters of the DEPOPULATION of the earth. The only other time the earth was depopulated was at the time of the Great Flood, when billions of people were drowned after they had been warned by Noah, a preacher of righteousness that God would show his wrath for the sin of the world.

Noah, who lived to be age 950, started preaching at age 550, and was instructed by God to build an ark to preserve animal life on earth. The exact dimensions of this sea-going craft were given to Noah by God, 95 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high, large enough to accommodate all these animals, Noah's family and others who wanted to escape in the ark of salvation. For 7 days, before God closed the great door of the arc, Noah, stood in the door of the ark and begged the laughing, mocking people to come aboard and escape. But, like the 120 years that it took him to build the ark, the people just mocked and laughed. It had never rained on the earth. Large bodies of water were far from the ark; and the sinful people, more interested in their CREATURE COMFORTS, the enjoyment of sin, were willing to take the risk; and they all drowned because the water went 15 feet above the highest mountain. Noah, his wife, his 3 sons and their wives, the earth's animal life which God intended to preserve, were saved. As with Christians, and God's plan of our salvation, animal life was preserved and here we are.

As the apostle Paul told us, today's world, as in Noah's world, perilous times would come. 2 Timothy 3:1. With Christians, as with American citizens, and indeed, citizens of the entire world, we just give lip service to our convictions and ideology, both religious and political. We have forgotten the foundations on which our Christian faith as well as our great democratic republic were built. Without a firm foundation whether spiritual or political, we will fall.

Satan was the deceiver before the Great Flood and he is the great deceiver now. Where there is no king, there is no kingdom. Where there is no obedience, there is no Lord. God's Law as well as every victim of civilization cries out, “...to obey is better than sacrifice.” I Samuel 15:22.

I never cease to be amazed that black American citizens just 100 years after redemption from slavery by the Emancipation Proclamation, have become enslaved again by loyalty to a political party and philosophy that makes them less than they are, bowing down to the dictates of a godless, communist ACLU, and selling their hard earned civil rights for a “mess of pottage”. I never cease to be amazed that union workers, cotton mill “lint heads”, tenant farmer “rednecks” are seeing their jobs in industry and agriculture, usurped by democrat party promotion of NAFTA and CAFTA, hard earned livelihoods, replaced by unemployment checks, and scraps from the table of the power brokers of promise. Even the rapidly disappearing middle class, clinging to the most basic constitutional principle of contracts, knows that in a nation so bereft of integrity, desperate state, federal and local tax grabbers and pick pockets of decency will put a lien on every property you consider yours so that government debts can be paid. The only money a government has is it's power to tax. Your property whether real estate, vehicle or your kitchen table, can be ceased by the government unless you pay the taxes on it. This morning, every man, woman and child owed, $250,000 in national debt. Knowing the appraised value of everything you own, and knowing how much money government owes, don't think for 1 minute that the government is not going to get every dime out of you to pay your debts. They consider the government debt, your debt. The paper money you have in your pocket is worthless, backed up by nothing except thin air. One president, was assassinated in Dallas, because he planned to back up fiat paper money with silver. The Federal Reserve is a joke. It is not Federal and it has no reserves; however, Congress has allowed it to take over the US Treasury.

The US Post Office is such a disaster that it has become privatized. Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Securtiy, NOW - the government owned automobile industry, and most insurance companies are all broke; and, some of you actually think you want some of your most sacred and private life support you have left, placed in the hands of government. Have you lost your mind? Only one who has sat in a VA hospital with a number waiting for care, only one who has worked in a lackadaisical military hospital, only one who has seen the foibles and failures of the Social Service system, would desire such treachery. When you get old whatever is not hurting is probably not working. In Obama-Care, maximum health coverage is from age 18 – 40. After 40, care becomes prioritized.

The US banking system will lose some 1,000 institutions over the next two years, said John Kanas, whose private equity firm bought BankUnited of Florida in May. The corruption of political officials in Washington, on Wallstreet, in state capitals such as the imprisonment of several in NC, and even locally, leads any thinking, taxpaying, sweating citizen to believe that all foundations of decency and accountability have vanished. For instance, Charles Rangel, long time representative from NY, Chairman of the House, Ways and Means committee, the most powerful committee in Congress, is being investigated for his corruption, his failure, to comply with government regulations in reporting more than $500,000 assets and income, which effectively doubles his net worth. Unreported assets included a federal credit union checking account of between $250,000 and $500,000, several investment accounts, stocks, apartment houses and even properties in New Jersey and Puerto Rico. How does a politician who makes $160,000 a year accumulate such a fortune.

The implosions of the foundations of government will lead to the demise of our republic. Much worse, is the quaking of the foundations of the Christian church. When founded, on the day of Pentecost, (Acts 2) the church was founded on sound doctrine. The mission then, as now, was to go into all the world and preach the gospel, baptizing believers in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit; and, we were told by God in whose image we were made, that He would be with us, even to the “end of the world.” Matthew 28: 19 – 20.

The foundation is important to every structure. Your building, whether your house in which you live, or the temple of God, your body, is only as sound as it's foundation. I never could understand why my father spent so much time digging and building the right foundation for every building, even a barn. But he knew, just as you will learn that the foundations of your spiritual being, your nation's governments, your childrens' developments are all just as secure as the foundation that supports them.

How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord,
Is laid for your faith in His excellent Word.

Johnny Can't Read

Even in 1950, when I was a student at UNC-Chapel Hill, educators were appalled with the quality of education from the state of North Carolina. I knew the great, late president of the university, Dr Frank Porter Graham; as well as the late, great professor and leader in education, Dr. Guy Phillips. In talking with them, neither could understand why in our advancement with technology, and a higher standard of living, students were getting dumber, less prepared for academics, brazen in their apathy toward achievement. I had just come out of the military, was president of the state's Young Democrats, went to work on the Terry Sanford gubernatorial campaign. I still have copies of political advertisements which helped win him the governor's election in the state and probably helped catapult him to the US Senate and the presidency of Duke University.

When he continuously asked the question, “Why can't Johnny read?” You see, as basic as breathing, every child wants to read. The products of the 'one room country schools' could read. At one time, the New Hanover County High School was considered the best high school in the state. In hiring part-time help, over many years, to assist me in my endeavors I have been absolutely amazed at the recent graduates of that high school who could not read, and could barely write, certainly could not spell. We still come across letters which some of these former students typed for me, which were sent out, and since I am totally blind, did not know their quality and someone will say to me “You don't mean this went out?! It looks like it was done by an elementary student.”

Academics advise me all the time about how much remedial work must be done for college students who are accepted for matriculation. Teaching has become political instead of professional. We hear constant complaints about 'low pay'; my 5th grade teacher was paid $85 a month and she was a marvelous teacher. I look back with great nostalgia at all my teachers, all well prepared for their jobs, probably happy with the money which they received. Many of today's parents, realizing the quality of instruction as well as the psychosis involved in most schools, determine to home-school their children. These are the students of achievement. My mother, with only a 6th grade education, taught her 4 children how to read as she had done with her 6 sisters and brother (her 4 children are all college graduates, never had any academic problems; all with Masters and Doctorates). If a mother who has never been to a teacher's college can home-school her children and are in all ways prepared for college, please, school board members, tell me what has happened to the government schools who subtract from our taxes $5-17,000 per student, for professional education?

I heard a member of the Massachusetts school board say on TV recently, ”In Massachusetts, we should close all public schools and just start over.” Even in Washington, DC, where $17,000 is spent on each student in public school, 1/3 of those entering high school do not graduate. It is difficult enough to survive with a college education, how do parents expect their children to survive without even a high school education; even a very poor high school education. I would be ashamed to be in the field of education, teacher, administration, elected board member, and not have the ability to extend remedial instruction to any student that could not read and write, the fundamentals of all life activities, and find and encourage training courses involving occupations such as cooking, carpentry, mechanics, something of interest to students whereby they can make a living. Does any American citizen have any curiosity about the fact that non-citizens who get across the border are always prepared to make a living? Go to any construction site, and you will find non-citizens working and the owners, who employ these workers at great risk, will tell you that they are their best employees. 1. Work Ethic-On time, ready to give a days work for a days pay 2. Reliable training- prepared to work correctly. 3. Prepared to follow instructions, although a language problem, can hear and see and react.

In North Carolina, as across the country, we have been besieged by “Pre-Kindergarten” programs. After years of these programs, they have been evaluated and it has been found that they have been of little help in the general education program. By the 4th and 5th grade, experts report that there is no difference in those who attended these remedial programs and those who did not. The best pre-1st grade training programs are in the home. It was determined long ago that a child's eyes are not developed enough until the age of 5 to handle the stress of reading and hand-to-eye coordination. Children should be allowed to be children, nurtured, not subjected to regimentation at such an early age. Children should have fun, time for fun.

Rearing children, and it has been done since the beginning of time with more success than today, is largely a matter of common sense. When I heard Dr. Jean Scott, pastor of the University Cathedral in Los Angeles, specify that no child would be allowed to attend church services until the age of 12 and that from the age of 12 until marriage, a family would sit together, children with parents, I thought this was strange, because I attended a small country church as a small child. But, I realize now, I was too young to comprehend the teaching and preaching prepared for adults. In Dr. Scott's church, as well as in most informed churches, children are in church school with children's activities. Why totally turn off your children toward worship and the beauty of Christian teaching by drowning them in doctrine and theology of interest to adults, when they are too young to comprehend any of it? People who have forgotten they were ever children are bothered by their energy.

The first thing I observed, in the Marxist, communist rearing and educating of children, the state takes over at a very early age. The state owns your children, as well as you. Large kindergarten, nursery, elementary school type facilities (in China, called children's palaces) are provided for the communist worker's children in their cradle to casket care. Children of all ages are deposited at the facility each day, where trained workers take over their total development. But, I noticed, that the very young were involved in child interest play and activity. With precision, they know at what age and at what stage of development these children should start dancing, singing, playing with certain instruments and toys, etc. I fully realize that the Marxists embedded in this country's education system are trying to do the same thing. They have forgotten that, scientifically and psychologically, there are planes of developmental achievement. A child can be turned against reading as quickly as one can be turned toward it. Reading is the most rewarding achievement of man. From the males trying to escape an 800 pound sabre-toothed tiger (Smilodon) riding and trying to read messages left by other males, to today's youth trying to read a comic book with a flashlight under the covers after forced bedtime in the modern home, children, of all economic strata, every skin color, every IQ, love to read.

NO ONE IS STUCK WHERE THEY START OUT. It is the written word, whether the conventional book or on the computer screen, that we have our bridge to opportunity transporting us to any economic level of achievement. The world's most brilliant physician, physicist, or parliamentarian started out by being able to comprehend the printed word. Life has become so much better for many of us; 10 million people take cruises every year. We read constantly of the life activities of the rich and famous. With nostalgia, we look back to our early teachers, coaches, those who encouraged us. Even in old age, we romanticize about the 'good ole days'. The days were not that good. There is nothing romantic about a car without A/C or radio. There is nothing romantic about window screens or kerosene heat. There is nothing romantic about paper everything, even drinking cups, or buttons and snaps, before the time of zippers and plastic. There is nothing romantic about one light bulb hanging down from the ceiling in a home or school. There is nothing romantic about black and white film reels and film projectors. There is nothing romantic about crayons and paste. There is nothing romantic about cursive writing with pens and bottled ink.

Common sense has not kept up with technology. Even during a suspected Swine Flu epidemic, in an age of electronic microscopes, the best we can get is advice on hand-washing. Don't these people know that washing your hands is almost useless? The first doorknob or hand rail you touch, the first chair arm or seat you touch, which some other person has used, even in a doctor's office, is covered in germs. In this time of fast food, about the only place most people can afford to eat out, tables are seldom wiped down. Germ laden people have coughed and slobbered all over them. A fright should be illegal citizens in the kitchen. Don't they know salmonella problems can be greatly erased by a cheap water-hose washing these cantaloupes and cucumbers before they are shipped? Don't they know that in a time of suspicious epidemic your drinking water should be boiled, particularly the water in pipes that comes out of a river in which sewage is dumped; and your food should be well cooked. Heat will destroy most germs.

Some sanitary rules, some regimentation in life, is good and expected. When students are polled about their best teacher, it is always the coach. The coach comes from an education economy of rules; he enforces his rules. The coach comes from a background of clothing and showers. The rewards of humankind, unlike the lower animals, is correct clothing and cleanliness. Survival in the 21st Century depends almost entirely on your ability to read and comprehend the written word. whether on tablets of stone (God could read and write) or the computer screen or Kindle screen. Our parents, employers, and neighbors are too busy, too apathetic to encourage people, regardless of age, to bask in the thrill of comprehending the written word; whether God's Holy Word or your local politically-correct newspaper.