Moral Fabric

     So why can't we have a moral fabric guide our actions?
	 Yesterday, I stepped outside to take in some of the fresh air and 
someone was burning plastic.  We live in a semi-rural area where people's 
actions can go unnoticed, some of the time, and there's a certain type of 
low level individual, in all parts of the country, that burns wire to get 
the plastic off in order to sell the copper.  It's illegal and the scrap 
buyers aren't supposed to deal in burnt copper wire but they do, and the 
curmudgeons who burn it know they can get away with it.
	 America was founded with Christian ethics and morals.  Ideally 
we'd hoped to live in a society where everybody takes responsibility for 
their actions and use the resources for the best of all.  Yet capitalistic 
greed took over and chopped off the tops of the Allegheny mountains, 
poured caustic chemicals into our rivers and mowed down all of our trees.  
So why can't we have a moral fabric that guides our actions rather than 
pay exorbitant bureaucratic fees to run society for us.  It looks like the 
tax burden alone has destroyed our economy.
	 Imagine the financial freedom the resources of the continent 
could have brought to the people if the rich and powerful hadn't grabbed 
the wealth for themselves.  I look at one old growth tree, the kind our 
forefathers lived amongst, and see a width and girth that would provide 
enough lumber to keep an individual occupied for a lifetime and still have 
enough wood left over to build a house.  Instead the greed and grab for 
our resources has left over 90% of our water polluted.
	 Not that any of us could resist the siren of corporate wealth, 
but the greed falls not only on the conglomerate's shoulders but the 
consumer who wanted to work less and have more.  We've built up a 
bureaucracy to support this lifestyle that has pulled us into economic 
collapse.  I just read a verse, too, on that, Hosea 7:8b-9  "They rely on 
the nations around them and  do not realize this reliance on foreigners 
has robbed them of their strength.  Their days are numbered, but they 
don't even know it."    Look at that.   History repeats itself.  That 
sounds like America today; our economy has been shipped overseas and we've 
surrounded ourselves with a bureaucracy we don't understand and can't 
afford.

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