Where Are Our Leaders

I was reading an article last night that the UN has been funneling millions of dollars unchecked into North Korea. And people think we should keep the UN?

I would love to hear what the presidential contenders have to say about it. They would probably wash it under the rug just like all the media markets.

The UN has outlived its usefulness. I cannot understand why we would waste so much money on an organization that grants itself special favors and could care less how its funds are spent. It sounds more and more like the United States government.

Our government wastes more money than I can think about.

The candidates spend so much time talking about how they will tax this group and not that group. How about CUTTING SPENDING? If I have to cut back, then the government should have long ago cut back.

All they can think about is getting new funds and spending them. Why not cut expenses and then pay off our national debt? The Republicans have been very good at increasing spending over that last seven years. The Democrats are just as bad. Neither will admit it but they both are money vacuums more worried about funding their fake pet projects back home that will in turn fund their next campaign.

I am more than a little angry. I am wanting a leader who will lead and not barter.

I am so glad I have Jesus in my life. Without Him, we would really be in trouble. But look at these times as signs of things to come.

I am not trying to be a naysayer and doomsday prophet. But I seriously wonder if our political pandering to appease the jealous governments around the world is their way of trying to bring our success to an end.

Many foreign governments have for two centuries tried to look for chinks in our armor. Have they finally found it in the form of the Democratic appeasers and the pride-filled Republicans?

A real leader becomes a role model. People need and want it. This is a heavy responsibility, one that many times bears great dishonor while trying to do the right thing. Yes the right things and not overly trying to just be right. Setting an example in times like this will help our nation, and there is not a more powerful aspect to leadership.

If our leaders expect people to save for their futures, to care for their health, to stand in loyalty, and to embrace commitment, then they have to model it. They are the ones who need to start by truly decreasing government spending and paying off our national debt. Maybe then we could pay for affordable health care for those who need it - but not until then!

People in America imitate the behaviors of those who lead them. And when the real leaders cease to lead because they are too busy trying to become rock stars and movie stars, then the people will turn to those influences because at least they know those people are phony.

Until our leaders in Washington set high standards and actually stick to them, unlike the Republican party, their examples will continue to set our country in a spiral of uncertainty. Standards have to be attainable, this is why I harp on certain attainable goals for our nation:

• The Fair Tax to unchain our people and help those in need
• Drilling in at least one place in the possible US oil riches (without Democratic vetoes)
• Voucher programs that allow parents to have the right to put their child anywhere in a school they choose
  
• Immigration policies that will be humane to those who risked so much for the American dream while securing our borders to ensure no one else takes advantage of us
• Cut spending and pay off our national debt to get us out from under the thumbs of foreign governments who own more interest in our economy than we do (namely China)
• We need to take care of our environment with real and tangible policies
• And We need God, plain and simple

That's my soap-box this week. Thanks for reading.