It is near the end of the Year 2021. It has been almost a century since our country went through what is known as the “Great Depression”. The Depression sent most of the country into such poverty that finally the government tried to ease the situation off some an create the welfare program. The welfare program was supposed to get the populace over and out of the depression. The trouble that ensued was the government created a part of our society that was completely dependent on the government for pretty much all of their living – the welfare society.
The Bible tells us that a man that does not provide for his family is worse than an infidel. Since our government entities insist that they can provide for all our needs, now we no longer have to depend on God for our resources, just come to them and all of your needs and wants will be met. The Roman Empire tried it and they lost everything. We are in those same final stages that the Roman Empire went through centuries ago. Get ready for some real fun.
My parents were born in the early twenties of the twentieth century. My dad was raised in an orphanage because his widowed mother could not afford to take care of him. My mother was brought up on a rural farm so the things I will tell came from her because she remembered her childhood more fondly than my dad did.
My mom grew up on this rural farm in a family of ten children. (Farm families usually were large for economics of running the farm.) Mom would tell of how hard the work was but would also tell of how rewarding it was to get the fruits of the labor. She told of bad farm years (droughts and such) and of being able to tell of selling cotton and getting what she said was a really good price for it (but what, in reality, was highway robbery).
Mom told of the fun she would have with her siblings even in the hard work they were experiencing. She told of picking cotton by hand and fingers cracked and bleeding from the process. Each brother and sister was given a cotton sack and expected to fill it up by the end of the day. Each sack was expected to weigh a certain amount. When the sack is full, you would get to go down to the creek and jump in to cool off. One brother got the hang of that and put some rocks in the bottom of his sack so that he could get down to the creek quick. When mom told it, she would tell it like she admired her brother for having the nerve to do such a dastardly thing, but she never told of the pain her brother’s bottom went through at the end of the day (once her dad found out whose sack had the rocks).
I tell this because I grew up with parents that grew up in the Great Depression who talked of all the hardships, of very little food, of the cold, of the heat, of a time when there was so much nothing that as an adult you tried very, very hard to give your kids things that you never had.
Between that mentality, and the government providing anything you need thru the welfare system, we have created a modern Roman Empire. We are a society of have it all and the government has decided no God is a good thing, so a downhill spiral has been happening over the last few years. The downfall of the Roman Empire came about when welfare society created a system that the thing everyone lived for was a good time. No one seems to learn from history.
When I was young my parents had a garden. They tried to teach me to work like they had been taught. They had a work ethic. They tried to give me one, and I guess it kicked in a little bit. I didn’t care that much for it, but was taught that it was a necessary thing. We would snap peas for what, as a child, seemed like hours. I remember feeling like my fingers were numb. We would pull corn (well, I wasn’t really tall enough for that), and we would shuck and silk corn longer than I would want to. Do you know what we got for that? A work ethic (and the best peas and corn you ever put in your mouth)!
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