Wet/Dry Vote

Hello again.  Time for some thoughts on the recent wet/dry votes in our own town and a few surrounding cities.  Two surrounding areas were smart enough to vote no on packaged alcohol sales.  Why weren't we?  Very simple.  We allowed Satan to blind us to the truth and allowed ourselves to fall for the old "It'll bring in tax money and help the economy." song and dance.  That is not true folks.  80% of that money goes straight to Frankfort and will never be seen by us.  As for the little remaining money, it will be taken up by paying for the need for increased police officers and larger jail facilities, among other things.  Even if we kept the entire amount, bringing in ten million dollars, a hundred million, a billion- NO AMOUNT would ever pay the cost of the toll this in going to take on lives and families.  Consider the wife who has to fear her husband's payday instead of feeling the relief of being able to pay bills, because he can now stop by Wal-Mart on the way home and buy enough alcohol to fuel an entire weekend of drunken beatings for her and her children- children who also can never bring friends home because there is no telling what Daddy may be like-who have to wear long sleeves to school in 75 degree weather just to hide the bruises and hope no one looks too closely or asks too many questions. These children are going to grow up and repeat the same dysfunction in their own families because they know no other way.  Young boys grow up thinking this is what is means to be a man.  Young girls grow up settling for much less than they deserve in a man because,"Well, this is how it was with Mom and Daddy, it must be normal."  What about the lives ruined because of drunk driving accidents? Ask anyone who has lost a family member or dear friend in this way and see how much they want the tax money. Yes, I am well aware that alcohol was still available before this vote.  I am not naive enough to believe otherwise.  Those who need alcohol that badly know where to get it.  It isn't necessary to bring it right to the front door.  I saw a man the other day at Rite-Aid wheeling out a cart filled with about 6 or 8 cases of beer.  I saw the sign and the price was about $22 a case.  This means he had spent over $100 on beer!  That is his business, yes-but you have to wonder-was his electric bill paid up? His rent?  Did he have all the groceries he needed?  He may well have had all this taken care of, and I hope so-but as I said, you have to wonder, given these economic times.  This is a symptom of the way we have stood by and allowed our freedoms to be taken away from us and tried to remove God from everything.  WAKE UP!  Look what is happening around you.  We have a presidential election coming up, and my own personal opinion is we need to remove the current administration.  The sad fact is though, if we as Christians and we as a country don't fall on our knees in repentance and beg the forgiveness of a Holy and Almighty God, and bring Him back into the very foundations of this country, IT WILL NOT MATTER WHO THE PRESIDENT IS.