As I watch us being dragged and pushed into being a socialist or communist nation, I wonder about our lost potential. We have been and are the most generous nation in the world, whether on the philanthropic side with our overwhelming response of gifts and resources to any natural or manmade disaster, or our gift of lives and blood over seas over the past century. We came to Europe twice and saved it. At the end of World War II, we rebuilt it. Ronald Reagan won the Cold War. And we have liberated 50 million people in Iraq and Afghanistan.
We see a problem in our community and we organize, bring together two or more people who care, and then proceed to take care of the problem. It is the American way. That tendency and instinctive reaction has built the world's best medical institutions, created extraordinary symphonies, built magnificent art collections, shared our history, and so much more.
We could do more. Despite the contiuing spending away of our children's future and our grandchildren's future by the current administration, think about the possibilities if we expanded our generosity and responded to God's one test in the Bible. Think about a change from freely giving 1.5-2% of our income to freely giving 10%. We would have more than $1.4 Trillion available to address any social problems, and without middlemen in Washington or our state capitals to take their share. Transformational. We have a long way to go.
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