A Resource for Latter-day Saints Committed to Getting Out of Debt

Are you pining over grass that appears to be greener on the other side of the fence.  It may be because they water it.

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I found the following post from the church where they state pretty clearly their position on Civil Unions for homosexual couples.  I thought it was worth sharing and reading.

http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/commentary/the-divine-institution-of-marriage

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My Mom introduced me to a really fun show called Shark Tank on ABC.  Entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to a group of Venture Capitalists, trading equity in their company for investment capital. 

You can watch the full episodes with fewer commercials online.  Here is the link: http://abc.go.com/shows/shark-tank

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There are fantastic lessons from the Book of Mormon about how to keep your liberty, and stop those that would seek to become king’s or dictators over the people.  Here is an article that lays out several of these lessons.

http://www.meridianmagazine.com/ideas/090903disease.html

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I recently traveled to Arizona, and along the way I ended up talking to the person next to me who was as liberal as they come.  At one point I mentioned that I really liked Tom Coburn as a Senator, and she about had a tantrum.  She hates Tom Coburn. 

I got to thinking about it later and decided that, based on what she the people and policies she did like and endorse, her hatred for Tom Coburn is a sort of reverse endorsement of him for me.  If she doesn’t like him that much, then he must be doing something right.

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I’m so sorry for the long delay between posts.  I could give you a multitude of reasons why, but the important thing is for me to forsake my absence and post regularly from now on, right? 

There is actually an object lesson in all of this.  How many of you have made a major committment at some point in the past to get out of debt, but stopped trying after a while.  Examine your life for a moment, and figure out how much better off you’d be right now if you’d kept your committment.  Would you be all the way out of debt by now?  How would that feel? 

Life is a little like driving a car.  To the casual observer, it appears that on a straight road all the person driving has to do is simply hold the wheel steady.  In reality, he is constantly adjusting because of the bumps, etc, in the road that want to send the car one way or the other.  Getting out of debt is like that.  There are lots of things that can throw us off from an unexpected car repair, to deciding to take a vacation we can’t really afford.  The important thing is to course correct quickly.  If we do that, we’ll still get to our destination in a reasonable amount of time.

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I believe that the only way out of the mess we find ourselves in in this country is for the honorable citizens of this country to stand up and pledge their lives, fortunes and sacred honor to support and/or become candidates that will uphold the constitution and the principles our country was founded on.  We can’t stand idly by and assume that voting is enough.  It takes money to stand up to criminals and thieves in high places.  We have to take our country back.  We showed that we can support correct moral principles in California.  Let us do that across the country, and spend our money and time supporting those people that will honorably serve.

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This might be the only link you ever see from me that takes you to a Huffington Post page. There is a fantastic opinion piece written by Tom Coburn (our family’s favorite Senator) and Harvard Professor Regina E. Herzlinger, on the true cost and effects of government sponsored health insurance.  You need to read this so that you understand the true costs and can explain them to your neighbors and your legislators.  This bill could have truly catastrophic consequences.  It’s one of those roads to hell paved with good intentions.  There are good ways to help everyone that wants insurance to get it, but putting the government in charge isn’t it. 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sen-tom-coburn/health-care-reform-that-w_b_191730.html

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I found a great article on LDS Church News about how following the church’s financial counsel, can put us in a situation where we are independently wealthy enough to consecrate all of our time to good purposes. It doesn’t mean we’ll be “rich” in other’s eyes, but we’ll be free and able to serve as we want.
You can read the whole thing here:
http://www.ldschurchnews.com/articles/57508/Point-of-no-return.html

Here is a video of a lecture Craig Wilson giving a lecture on this

http://byuebusiness.blogspot.com/2009/02/craig-wilson-february-27-2009.html

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I saw multiple news articles about this “negative” news of the savings rate going up to 6.9%.  You’ve gotta be kidding me.  This is fantastic news.  We need to keep that rate going up till it hits at least 10%.  How much would this recession have impacted us if everyone had a year’s supply of cash to live off of?  How many houses would be in foreclosure if we’d had a positive savings rate before the crash rather than a slightly negative one. 

We’re a wealthy country.  We should be saving a large percentage of our income, helping those in need, and retiring early to meaningful volunteer work.  Maybe this recession will help put us on that path.

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The democrat party majority is trying to push through climate change legislation today. Please call your house and senate representatives and tell them to vote no on this legislation. Our economy is already struggling and this bill will make it much, much worse. All this is is another tax. It will not save the planet. It is just a giant tax where the people that can avoid it are those that can afford lobbyists.
This is a big deal. Please take 2 minutes and call your Representative and Senator’s offices now and tell them to vote no!

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