"…and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an abatement."
Today a few Americans clamor for the government to take over everything from health care to energy, the banking system to the auto industry.
Father Abraham reminds us that government can’t bail us out of our individual and collective idleness, pride and follies, although the Congress seems to think the government can do just
that.
“However, let us hearken to good advice, and something maybe done for us; ‘God helps them that help themselves,’ as Poor Richard says.”
Poor Richard, the Founding Fathers and Mothers, presidents, statesmen and women, and their families recognized that God created a universe where we are personally responsible for our actions and inactions, our decisions about our lives and our lifestyles, and how we care for the abundance that we have been given to steward.
Even those who do not believe in God rank personal responsibility highest on the stewardship scale. We all recognize that we create government to be the servant of “We the People” and that we the people are the servants of a higher power.
Think about it...
God is the true rule-maker.
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