It’s time to pray

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Our nation faces enormous problems. The economy and inflation are two of the issues that voters this fall view as the most important. Energy, drugs, crime, law enforcement and military recruiting, public safety, education, public debt, national defense, abortion, corruption and election tampering are issues that over the long haul may well be as important. 

Take these issues in any order. Start with election tampering and end with the economy, or start with drugs and conclude with the public debt. All of these issues are crucial to how this country functions.

On every issue the Democrats are wrong. 

Inflation almost speaks for itself. The Democrats throw around money and then express surprise that we have inflation. Inflation is causing huge problems in the economy. How can consumers pay for the basics and then have enough left to support a strong economy?

Drugs, crime and Democrats have always been intertwined. Democrats have been pushing drugs for decades. Ivy League professors have been promoting drugs at least as far back as 1966. Hollywood has been glamorizing drugs for about the same length of time. Democratic politicians have been legalizing drugs. Drug use causes a disproportionate amount of our social problems, including our spiraling crime rate and public safety issues. Prosecutors in our big cities release hardened criminals without bond and these people continue to rape and pillage mainstream Americans. These large cities have become less safe, to say the least, while some have become unlivable. 

Democrats with their defunding the police campaigns and attacks on the military have made it impossible to recruit the number of good police officers and soldiers that we need to protect our nation.

Test scores for our schools have plummeted. This is a direct result of the Democrats’ willingness to close our schools to win political points on COVID. I didn’t even mention this above, but the Democrats have been wrong on almost all aspects of the handling of COVID.

With respect to abortion, it’s just wrong. You don’t kill babies. And with respect to corruption, it’s just wrong. Joe Biden and his son shouldn’t be raking in billions of dollars in bribe money.

Our public debt is astronomical. The national debt will literally ruin this country, while at the state and local levels more and more governments will be unable to maintain a satisfactory level of services. Social Security is in trouble. State and local pensions are underfunded. Our infrastructure is in poor shape. The Democrats recently passed the Inflation Reduction Act and in the course of doing so spent another trillion dollars we don’t have. 

Consider for a second how these issues exacerbate the negative impact of the others. Inflation, for example, is going to require Social Security checks to be greatly increased, thereby causing Social Security to hemorrhage even more money. The Federal Reserve is increasing interest rates to hold down inflation, but that is making it almost a certainty that we will see a serious recession or depression.

When the federal government runs short on money, it usually reduces defense spending. Here in Missouri, when we run low on funds, it’s often been fashionable to cut mental health funding. Reckless spending and a weak economy can result in cuts that are both dangerous and painful. 

As I stated earlier, inflation and the economy are the issues that voters this year are said to be the most focused on. I suspect that is correct, but voters should note that Joe Biden and his radical buddies have caused the inflation and weak economy by greatly reducing oil production. The oil cuts have hurt this country, while greatly benefiting our enemies such as Russia, Iran and Venezuela. 

Are any of these policies of the Democrats popular with the American people? No. That’s why Democrats need the help of the media and tech giants to win. And that’s why they have to resort to out-and-out vote stealing. They have no choice. Their ideas suck.

Recent elections in Brazil were counted in one day. In the U.S., in Republican controlled states with millions of ballots — Florida and Texas being good examples — the election results are normally determined before midnight on election day. In Democratic states with big populations, it takes days to count the ballots because election authorities are trying to determine how many votes they need to steal. Examples are Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Minnesota. 

Two years ago I wrote what I considered one of the most important stories I’ve ever done. It was entitled “The Story of Election Thievery.” It’s very long and has been run once in this newspaper. If you care to read it — and I strongly encourage you to do so — you can find it on the Advocate’s website.

One last thing. When I was a kid the people of this country prayed that we would prevail over Russia. We did prevail and I think part of the credit for that goes to Pope John Paul II, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. But I firmly believe the prayers also had a lot to do with the success we achieved. Vote right next week, but by all means pray and pray fervently. Prayers will make your vote a lot more effective.