| Some people ask how we can eliminate any of | | | | combat? |
| these problems. I have found two ways. I plan to | | | | When he enlisted, he refused to take any money, |
| discuss one way to solve one of the problems | | | | seeing service to his country as payment enough. |
| here... | | | | The higher officials in the Army told him that, by |
| In the book of Nehemiah, we learn of the Persian | | | | law, they had to pay him something for his |
| emperor's personal attendant, Nehemiah. God | | | | service. For that reason, he only consented to |
| impresses upon his heart the need to do | | | | one dollar per month! Think about it: while |
| something that has been done twice before | | | | everyone else was getting paid a living wage - |
| already, but needs to be done again... by himself. | | | | many of whom had business deals on the side, |
| Nehemiah gets the king interested in his proposal | | | | funding their lifestyles, - this one soldier, who truly |
| in an interesting way: he can't help but show how | | | | cared about his country and his people, refused to |
| grieved he is by the fact that his own people are | | | | take any more from the taxation of these people |
| not able to return to their homeland yet, and live | | | | than the law forced him to take! |
| freely. Sure, other groups have already returned | | | | My point? |
| to try to rebuild little by little; but there is still so | | | | Imagine, for just a moment, if all politicians were |
| much to do... and so many want to return, but | | | | like Nehemiah and Elvis... Imagine if they refused |
| can't (for whatever reason). The emperor takes | | | | to take money from their constituents, and paid |
| pity on him, and grants him the materials and | | | | their own way. Imagine if government was a |
| papers necessary to take his small band back to | | | | higher calling, instead of a career... a passion, |
| Jerusalem, and finish the job that Zerubbabel's | | | | instead of a paycheck! Imagine how much less |
| group, and Ezra's group both started years | | | | corrupt, and more wholesome, our politicians, |
| before... | | | | policies, and laws themselves would be! That, |
| The point of this book, which I want to show | | | | alone, could change the whole social, economic, |
| you, is this: | | | | psychological, and moral back-drop of America... |
| The people were being oppressed by high | | | | we could return to the splendor we once had, |
| taxation. There was a tax to the Persian | | | | without repeating the mistakes of our ancestors... |
| government, a tax to the governors of the | | | | we could achieve their hope for us, which is the |
| neighboring lands, and even their own leaders. | | | | hope of all parents for the future generations in |
| Nehemiah couldn't do much about it, but there | | | | their families: that they become better, and more |
| was something he could do (and this is a really | | | | righteous, than the generations that preceded |
| radical idea)... he REFUSED to take ANY money | | | | them! |
| from the people he was serving, for his own | | | | I wonder how many politicians actually care |
| benefit. Instead, they were allowed to keep that | | | | enough about their constituents to try this |
| money for their own needs. His reason? He just | | | | procedure out..." |
| didn't need it. He already had his own business | | | | Let's see how far this solution goes. |
| ventures, as well as a salary for being an | | | | For more about this solution, and the way to it, |
| employee of the Emperor... and the emperor paid | | | | please visit my site, marked on this page, and find |
| his servants extremely well! | | | | the link to sign my petition. I need 100 million |
| For a more contemporary idea, we turn to the | | | | signatures, but it will definitely be worth it... |
| example of Elvis Presley... | | | | In Christ, as always, |
| Not many people know that, before he was the | | | | ~D~ |
| "king of Rock and Roll", he was a soldier in our | | | | Taken from my new site: "What Methods Can |
| nation's Army. What made him so spectacular | | | | We Take to Eliminate the Problems? |
| back then, even though he never saw actual | | | | |