When a Wicked Man Rules

Proverbs 29:2 tells us, "When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when a wicked man rules, the people groan." We are quickly becoming an oppressed people ruled by an arrogant, self-righteous, belligerent Chicago thug administration that will even break laws to get its way.

We've seen unlawful take-overs of auto companies, banks, and insurance companies. We've seen this administration regulate salaries and bonuses for employees of private companies, going as far as having people fired from private companies.

Now Obama seeks to take over the health care industry. The nightmares blatantly written into this bill are of a science fiction horror story. Government will decide treatment plans rather than doctors and patients, and a formula will be used based on productivity potential of the patient! People will be forced out of their private plans with no choice but the government's plan. As there is no possible way to finance a plan that gives coverage to all, Medicare reimbursements to care-givers are being drastically slashed to unsustainable levels, and many small clinics will have to close. What kind of health care can we expect when all the good doctors quit? What kind of health care can we expect from an administration that vows to give coverage based on productive potential when it has such disdain for Christians, conservatives, the military, and "gun-toting Bible clingers" in the heartland?

Americans utilizing their free speech rights have been debating the health care issue and what does Obama say about that? “I just want to put everybody on notice, because there was a lot of chatter during the week that I was gone. We are going to get this done. Inaction is not an option. And for those naysayers and cynics who think that this is not going to happen, don't bet against us.”

He's going to put us on notice? Because there has been chatter? Against the Almighty One? How dare we?? And anyone who doesn't believe he'll get his way, don't bet against him.

Are we groaning yet?

Who can forget Obama's comment to a Democrat in Congress who dared to vote against his spendulous package? "Don't think we're not keeping score, brother." Other examples of the Chicago-style bullying this week: Obama's Department of Defense compelled a private employer to fire a U.S. Army Reserve major from his civilian job after he had his military deployment orders revoked for arguing he should not be required to serve under a president who has not proven his eligibility for office; and this unbelievable story of threats against the entire state of Arizona because its senator dared to speak against the Great One: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090714/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_kyl_stimulus

If the people don't start rising up and screaming at the top of their lungs and demanding their representatives do their jobs and represent them and their freedoms and their interests, we will be Nazi Germany in no time.

I just read an interesting quote from Winston Churchill this morning: "Arise and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time."

How similar it is to a scripture from the Bible:

Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where the good way is, and walk in it; then you will find rest for your souls. But they said, "We will not walk in it." - Jeremiah 6:16

Oh, let us not be the people described in that verse who refuse God's ways of old! Let us be as the Founding Fathers and patriots depicted in this and other videos by Bob Basso, author of "Common Sense":