I am getting ready to return some of the DVDs I checked out ot the local library so I watched two of them again today. WHAT THE HEATLTH and NO SAFE SPACES. It was hard to view all those details again. I may watch them again tomorrow to make sure I remember them.
I also watched another DVD for the first time. It was called DEFINING US. I thought it was about New York City education systems, but I later realized some of the stories were about Los Angeles. I don't know if there were other locations included. I won't watch it over again so you will have to watch it to find out. :-)
The copyright year was 2022. It included some of the recent social unrest over the murders of black men by police (George Floyd), and general references to the effects of poverty and inner cities on the people who have to live in them. It also shared some of the efforts schools in these difficult areas are making to change the futures of the kids who go to their schools. Many school officials were featured, giving comments on what their kids need and how their efforts were reaching them. It was good to see their success stories.
Education is so essential to building a better life. Our economy is struggling and priorities in government spending are going to get even more difficult. Criminals tend to take the most funding and get prioritized over other important programs because they represent a safety issue. I think education will need to get more parent involved, but that is also something poor neighborhoods can't always do.
I wondered how all our government spending would change if we went to just ONE TAX, my view on the tax subject.
If property taxes went away, how would it change the issue of funding...
The main issue in education is that school funding is attached to neighborhood property taxes. Rich neighborhoods have better schools because of that fact. Poor neighborhoods have little funding because of this property tax connection.
Per child statewide is my view.
Taxes are a huge problem in our country now. The government misspends them and then raises the amounts or creates new taxes. People and businesses are being crushed by the burdens taxes bring to them. It's really a mess.
I wonder what will happen in the near and far future. Socialism isn't going to solve the problem.
I better stop here or I will go on and on about this issue.
I watched a YouTube sermon by John MacArthur on the Antichrist over the weekend. It was interesting to hear what was included. It has inspired me to try to study the topic in my Bible again. I hope to share the differences I see and how our world is becoming what the Bible warns us about.
The hardest issue is the Rapture idea that seems to have taken over. I don't know how it happened, it just seems like people want it to be true. The Antichrist is how we will be missing from the wrath of GOD, not the Rapture.
I hope I can find a way to explain what I discovered so long ago and built Working Together for us to survive together as long as possible.
I really wish I was a better person to do this job, but it is what my life is about. Whatever happens, I am trying my best with the resources I have... which is little. Pray that GOD will help us. Thank you for any prayers you lift up for Working Together, me, and all the Christians who need help.
In Christ,
Deborah Martin
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