Yesterday it was increase in the cost of a drivers license and a notice that come January there will be an increase in license plate renewal fees. The latter alone means a $120 dollars increase a year for my family, unfortunately there was no increase in my husbands wages, as a matter of fact, his raise/cost of living increase was postponed til next year and who knows if things keep on if he will ever get one, the outlook is dreary. What are we to do except pray that God will find us worthy to be provided for.
Today first thing I read that in Rockford, they have been threatened that they must increase the garbage collection fees or have a big layoff of city employees, police, fire etc. They recently laid a bunch of people off. Why are we getting new address signs in our yards when we can't afford to protect people? Why isn't our money being managed better? We are all expected to cut back to just be able to afford necessities but the government who is also experiencing financial problems continues to squander OUR money. Why do they threaten us with taking away police, fire fighters and teachers, when those are exactly what OUR money is given to them to provide for us, instead of giving us shiny new green address markers and street signs with nice little American flags. It is because they know that these threats hit us where it counts and most will vote to allow these increases to keep these things. It is sad the abuse of power. What are we do to but pray that God will provide for us.
As I have vented about time and time again, they are taking and taking, no one is giving. They raise fees and taxes, businesses leave, there is less revenue so they they raise the fees and taxes again. The people still here, many unemployed because the companies can not afford the fees and taxes or have just left or closed, cutting business of other businesses, these people are left trying to pay for all the things IL wants whether we need them or not. Then more companies leave or close because they can't afford the increases, even less revenue, so what will they do, raise fees and taxes, who will pay, those of us still here, it is a viscious cycle and yet we do not get an increase to help pay for all of these fees and taxes. Soon we will not have any funds to pay our own bills, you know things like the mortgage, gas, electric, food, things like that, we'll sell cars because we can't afford to keep them, some won't buy them because the costs to keep them increase, this hurts the car salesman on and on it goes but we will have a shiny new green flag in our yard that announces our address or a $3000 sign on the side of the road telling why the road is being worked on, but yet no one is working on it,Hmmmm. What can we do but pray and pray hard that God will find us worthy to provide for what we need..
We also need to pray for our government, local and federal, that they will stop taking and reorganize so that we are provided with the basic things they are supposed provide to us, that they would actually cut all the wasteful spending and allow us to live our lives and provide for our families with the hard earned money that we make instead of them selfishly taking it all and wasting it on things we do not need. We need to pray for this and that God would actually Bless America. We need to pray that we change our ways to become worthy of God's Blessings. These are very scary times and what can we do except pray to God for help, guidance and that He will find us worthy to provide for our needs.
It is in Jesus precious name I pray. Amen
