Random Thoughts

Remember back in the 80's of an author by the name of Hal Lindsey? He wrote 'The Late Great Planet Earth', 'Countdown to the 1980's' and other biblical End Times type books. I remember he talked about Russia, China, Iran, the number of the beast...stuff like that. Well there was one thing that I always remembered, the mark of the beast. He said the bible talked about everyone having to have a number on their hands or foreheads or they wouldn't be able to buy or sell things. I remember thinking that would be crazy hard. No way we Americans would fall into that kind of trap...my how times have changed. Russia, the UN and other countries are wanting now to have one world currency. Can you believe that!? Wow! We're just a blink away from having the government adopt such a thing. Did you ever...ever...think we'd become a socialist nation? It's not coming, it's here! The government owns banks, insurance companies and have interest in the car manufacturers. Crazy, just crazy! The funny thing is, we're never going back. We've given away so much money we can't go back. We're socialist forever now. Will it get worse? I'm guessing yes. The new rich won't be entrepreneurs with new fresh ideas, it's going to be politicians and the political elite, they'll have all the money. The taxes that are going to be imposed to pay for all of this 'bailout' stuff will stop young businesses and even the large ones. Why would Caterpillar stay in Illinois? They've been moving south for a long time now. These new taxes are just going to push them out quicker. Ole Hal Lindsey may have had it right. His timing may have been wrong but his message was right. What else did he say?