Despite the best efforts of the government, the Dow broke 9,000 today for the first time in 2009.
As if laughing in the face of the president and his bailout dollars, Ford Motor Company led the way with its best quarterly result since it last turned a profit five years ago. This comes in spite of the fact that it is the only American auto manufacturer not either owned or heavily subsidised by Washington.
As the men and women running this country into the ground continue to throw away dollars they taxed out of the pockets of the people, seemingly in an effort to buoy the economy on a sea of quarters and pennies, companies that have vowed to do what is best for the American people are salvaging the nation’s private-sector fiscal year.
I can’t say with any certainty that the heads of these companies are devout Christians, and I can’t speak to anyone else’s faith in God. However, I can see a generalized example of faith in today’s turn of events: people who believe the best way to survive is not by leaning on a frail crutch — the ones who have faith in something that eventually normalcy and peace will be restored — are the ones who are not just surviving, but are beginning to thrive.
When you have something to believe in — an identity, a rallying point — the people who rely on you will begin to believe. As a nation, we used to have an identity; now, what we used to be is memorialized (until it is legislated out of existence) as a line in what was once a noble promise but has become nothing more than a poem our kids recite each morning in school: ” … one nation under God, indivisible … “
Unfortunately, these days we as a collective population seem to be pledging our allegience not to a country built on Godly principles, but to a plot of land run by people who pledge their own allegiences to the almighty dollar and, above all else, themselves.
