$tupid

OCCUPY WALLSTREET!  Part of me wonders why you would want to.  Not always the happiest of people down there.

Just been musing about all we are seeing.  Economic crisis brought on in most ways because everyone, governments and people, borrow and spend more than earn and save.  The entire economic model is based on cheap borrowing so that we are fueled by debt.  Problem is that debt is what is now hurting the economy.  So the Fed drops interested rates ....so borrowing is cheaper....so more people/buisnesses will borrow....so that things will get better.  Meanwhile those of us who live by saving have no interest.

This is not a protest blog, though.  Just making a point.  Netflix retreated from their latest plan.  They really made their customers (which I am not one) angry with price increases and changes in service.  They didn't really care about the customers, they just want to make more money.  At some point they got so focused on the money that they forgot that the customers are how they do that.

Now it is Bank of America's turn.  Same deal.  Not there for service, but for profit.

Ok, so I'm not a socialist, but I am a Biblicist.  Common theme in all these things is greed.  Which made me think of this verse.

"But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge men into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs." (1 Timothy 6:9-10)

In all these cases, businesses and people are in ruin and destruction (or lesser versions of same) because they long for money.    Loving money can really make us $tupid.  May my focus be on God, His provision, and His leading, rather than my desires for earthly wealth.