How to help your nation in its troubles

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Glenn Jacobs / 130 N. Poverty Flat / Box 954 / Eagar, Arizona 85925 / 928-333-3517
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“A snowball headed for hell”

Letter to the editor;

The nation is in trouble. Big trouble. (Pick a nation and a trouble: We’re in it.)

A popular song likens this to a snowball rolling down toward the nether regions.

PLAN A: Ignore it. It’ll go away. Or maybe someone else will take care of things.

PLAN B: Trust our Beloved Leaders to fix it. (But they caused at lease part of it.)

PLAN C: Urge the government to hand out lots and lots of money that it doesn’t have, and to decree that it will do more of the same if the trouble continues.

PLAN D: Demand the government get rid of the Jews/ Blacks/ Mexicans/ drug-dealers/ homosexuals/ Socialists. (All of these have been tried at other times and other places and none of them fixed a thing.)

PLAN E: Stage a bloody revolution and wreck the nation’s foundations and build a new one on the basis of whoever kills the most people. (This always gives WORSE results.)

PLAN F: Sit crosslegged and say “Ooooom. Ooooom.” until your mind is calm like water. (This doesn’t fix anything -- but then you don’t care about it anymore.)

PLAN G: Phone and write politicians to tell them a better way to do things.

PLAN H: Demand the government hold a nationwide day of prayer and fasting. (Good. Good. But you cannot make ‘em pray, and they certainly aren’t going to fast on command.)

PLAN I: Repent. Not try to make your neighbors repent. Just repent. Not try to have the government proclaim repentance. Just repent. Seeing that you cannot make anybody else repent, just repent.

Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona