Covetousness

Many Republican politicians profess to be Christian. And maybe they are - that's for God to determine.

But I know that many covet what isn't theirs. They spend your money to enhance their political future. They ignore that it's wrong to take from one person to help another person. They choose not to understand that no one is compassionate who spends the money of others to appear charitable.

Every child in America is born into a robust six-figure debt, but that doesn't give 99% of legislators any pause whatsoever as they continue to increase federal debt. Or the state budget. Or a county's reckless splurge. Or a city's hunger to grow government and appease vendors and friends.

These politicians covet. They want what isn't theirs. They feel no responsibility to protect the future of children. They measure their success not by returning to the people the money taken from the people through decreased spending (resulting in less future taxation), but by how happy their donors and backers and colleagues are.

Our nation's debt exceeds our GDP by over 20%. Tax cuts will accelerate our GDP, but without substantial spending reductions in the future, we spend increasingly exorbitant amounts on meaningless interest payment against our great debts. How does that serve the people?

And our nation's credit rating was just downgraded. Because of debt. How is that responsible?

Jennica (X's DataRepublican), a very smart data expert on the web who has uncovered so much for DOGE and highlighting bad actors in USAID, said this of the "big beautiful bill"

The most "responsible" plan anyone can come up with still adds trillions to our debt, just at a slightly slower rate. That's the hard truth. Even with the most disruptive leader in modern history, this is where we landed.

We are out of money.
We are out of time.
And still, we act like it's not a problem.

I'm not saying this to sound hopeless. But we have to face the truth: this is happening because of a culture of corruption.

In a fragile system - and let's be honest, our economy and government are pretty fragile right now - it doesn't take much for a Soros-type to act swiftly to damage what we have. Look how the Wuhan virus upended so many things in this life. No one is better for it except those who knew how to get rich from it.

There's a reason the founders regarded government as evil. Until we have politicians who act to truly limit government, the courts will disrupt our president, legislatures and councils nationwide will run up our debt, and freedom will be diminished and our children enslaved by a runaway government and its overwhelming debt.

All because the few we elect covet what isn't theirs.

The righteous return what's stolen. They don't keep it and they certainly don't crave more of it. We need to elect those who crave to act righteously for the people in the nation God granted us, or all our liberty will be lost.

3 Comments

Carol D (May 22, 2025 2:51 PM):

I concur.
Well said, Brett!

Randy Reeves (May 23, 2025 7:47 AM):

I know it's a big task but I wish you could put together a review of how our reps to D.C. vote and have voted in the past.
I look forward to our Lindale Republican Club meeting and your presentation of our Texas reps true voting record in June. I expect it to be revealing.

Brett Rogers (May 23, 2025 8:14 AM):

Surprisingly, it's not that complicated for me to set that up. A lot of the work necessary for it has been done.

What is difficult to do is to have someone dedicated to interpreting what each vote means. That's harder to fulfill.