This is the kind of thinking that’s going on in Washington right now…and pretty much for too long to even remember.

This is the beginning of one great big mess.

WHAT? IT’S NOT MY MONEY…IS IT?

The Stimulus package that was recently approved has a big fat loophole in it. The legislation, which would send tax credits of $500 per worker and $1,000 per couple, expressly disqualifies nonresident aliens, but it would allow people who don’t have Social Security numbers to be eligible for the checks.

Undocumented immigrants who are not eligible for a Social Security number can file tax returns with an alternative number. A House-passed version of the economic recovery bill and one making its way through the Senate would allow anyone with such a number, called an individual taxpayer identification number, to qualify for the tax credits.

In a nutshell, someone who is in this country illegally. Brilliant! In February of 2008 which was when we had our last stimulus package (which obviously stimulated nothing since our economy is going further in the toilet as I write this), there was a provision to have strict requirements to cash the checks. Namely, a social security number.

Here is where the republicans got it together. Not one republican voted for passage of the bill.

You would think that they would learn that this kind of plan doesn’t work. In this plan,they hold back tax cuts from the wealthy (who pay the majority of the taxes for this country to begin with) and businesses that have a chance to jump start this anemic economic situation. It has disaster written all over it with a capital D.

ALL IS NOT LOST

Throwing money at a economic problem doesn’t solve the problem. You save, spend prudently, and invest wisely. Of this we can be certain as the Lord’s children:

The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing. (Psalm 34:10)

We have to understand that the world is the Lord’s:

If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. (Psalm 50:13,15)

The last place we need to look to fix this country is the government. They got us into this predicament. We need to appeal to the Owner, pray for mercy and goodness to once again fall upon this land and trust that He’ll be true to His word. In the meantime, we stand against those who are getting in the way of that through prayer and our voices being lifted up for righteousness and Truth. Easy? Nope. But I stand and believe on this:

With men this is impossible; but with God, all things are possible. (Matt. 19:26b)

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