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My wife called me up saying the key would not turn on our Honda Odyssey.  Thanks to Google, I was able to identify the problem in a couple of minutes while we were on the phone.  I’m placing a link to it here and putting the title in the search tag in case any of you are stuck also. 

http://www.hondacarforum.com/honda-technical/44077-ignition-key-wont-turn-after-steering-wheel-locked-up.html#post251188

To fix your problem, you have to turn the steering wheel either to the left or right as much as you can, then try to turn the key in the ignition. When the steering wheel locks, the key won’t turn. By manually holding the steering wheel out of the lock position, the key will turn again and you’re steering column will be back to normal.

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess of the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. — Sir Alexander Fraser Tyler

Do a google search on executive pay compared to worker pay.  You’ll find dozens of articles.  Recently I read that CEO compensation was 344 times the average worker.  Sure you can make statistics say lots of things, but the trend is unmistakable.  Many fat cats are getting fatter without apparent concern for anyone but themselves.

I’ve always read the beginning of James 5:1-6 and thought of our current day environment.   I think it even more so when we look at this credit debacle.  Capitalism fails under a non-virtuous people.  Greed destroys all those it inflicts.  Thankfully brokenness is the beginning of repentance.  My God grant repentance.

5:1 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you. 2 Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days. 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. 5 You have lived on the earth in luxury and in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. 6 You have condemned and murdered the righteous person. He does not resist you. (ESV)

I don’t know if there is such a thing as a good depression, but I agree with the major points of this article.

Where is the church in all of this?  Where is the prophetic voice in God’s kingdom calling out Wall Street?