Debt is as fine a description of damnation as I can imagine. To be in debt is to be enslaved; it is to live with a ball and chain attached to your every movement. I always counsel people to get out of debt: tear up your credit cards and start living within your means, even if the consequence is no more cell phone, cable TV, and pub crawling on Saturday night. Debt puts one into bondage to someone or something else that has little if any care for your well-being. When you are in debt you are only as valuable as your ability to continually produce a shekel here and there; once the shekels stop coming, you become less than zero, expendable, worthless.
Debt is the condition of our nation. The banksters have recently swindled us out of a trillion dollars of wealth. But they are not done with us. Now comes phase two. Even as President Obama calls for increases in military spending, the foundation is laid to cut domestic spending as preparation for cutting Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare. Or, in other words, the banksters are beginning to bleed us dry, to gut our infrastructure and undermine our homeland security. The banksters are revolutionizing our economy, turning us ever more deeply into a 21st century military-corporate feudal society.
Recently in Colorado Springs (the Mecca of evangelical Christianity), budget cuts have gutted the basic infrastructure of what keeps a city alive. Streetlights are going dark, firefighters and police are being laid off, police helicopters are for sale, the parks are losing their trash cans, water usage is being cut back, and on and on. Get the picture? That which supports life is being killed.
Meanwhile, as the punditry pontificates on these political matters, nary a word is heard, nor is there any, I repeat, any political debate on the ever increasing billions being given to the military. And given to the military means being given to privatized armies, to privatized police forces, to privatized support services. Given to the military means the manufacture and maintenance of well over 800 military colonies spread throughout the earth. It means more saber rattling towards Iran, Somalia, Venezuela, and China. Forget all the speeches of this Nobel Peace Prize-winning president. He's head over heels in love with military imperialism. Blood is on his hands, in his heart and mind, and all over us, particularly those of us who so desperately wanted him to be something he is not.
Our goose is cooked and there is really nothing we can do about the inevitable dismantling of democracy and collapse of liberty in these once united states. The only cure for debt is a Jubilee. That's what Jesus was all about, and look where that got him. For those of you who are Christians, are you really sure you want to follow?