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Saturday, July 23, 2011

Personal and National Stewardship Issues:

The rich rules over the borrower and the borrower
becomes slave to the lender. Pro 22:7

What is my purpose investing: to provide for my household and increase my ability to give for God’s kingdom? Four ways to be a good financial steward: 1. Honor God by giving first to Him. 2. Deal with debt 3. Save, beginning with emergency fund. 4. Invest surplus 5. Diversify for safety.

Every spending decision is an investing decision.

What is the intent and the fruit of our government’s policies regarding debt and individual stewardship, including life? Compare your personal beliefs and values to US Government.

The Congressional Budget Office projects unprecedented trajectory of the debt compared to the scope of our national debt in the past: The debt will be larger than our entire economy in just a decade (a level we have experienced only once, very briefly, in the immediate wake of World War II).


Do you trust the government to be good stewards of life?

One of the main causes of increasing government spending is ObamaCare Health Law. Much controversy over the unclarity in this law toward possible funding of abortions and the possible “rationing of health care” to elderly and very ill.


IPAB (Independent Advisory Board) is a panel of 15 government-appointed "experts" to be set up to monitor/set the amounts that Medicare can reimburse doctors/hospitals for various services/procedures. Which may lead to fewer doctors accepting Medicare patients and thus longer wait times. In effect, medical services will be rationed.


Which do you prefer: Top-down, heavy-handed approach to medical care reform OR turning more of the decision-making over to individuals choices in a competitive private market?


-PD