Christians, Pay Attention to the Economy

From Doug Wilson's blog today:

The screaming issue, the one that has everybody's attention right now, is the economy. And this is not just a matter of your private retirement, although that probably has your attention as well. Evildoers can't do evil without paying their troops, and we can't resist them without paying ours. Churches have budgets, and have a payroll to meet, and the same thing goes for pro-life organizations, publishing houses, colleges, not to mention organizations dedicated to the preservation of the second amendment.

Obama knows that his approval rating will never be higher than it is right now. He knows that if he wants to get lunatic legislation through Congress, which he does, a bunch of it, then he has to do it now. And because he has a couple of truckloads of that legislation, he is going to try to get all of it through now. He will probably succeed with most of it, and no, this is not a rallying cry to "write your Congressman." If your Congressman could read, he would probably have read a book by now, and that would mean his voting record would have to have been a little bit different.

I have said that Christians need to learn economics, and right now they should be taking a crash course in it -- and not so that you can persuade Congress not to bury us under a rock pile of economic disincentives. They will not be persuaded.

But you need to know what is going to be happening a year and a half from now as a result of, say, dropping 30 bucksabillion clams into the clam market. You need to know so that you can continue to provide for your family, so that you can support those who have been thrown out of work -- whether it is the nurse who won't do abortions or the factory worker who had the misfortune to be employed by greedmonkeys regulated by powermonkeys. You need to know so that you can continue to tithe to your church, so that you can continue to support worthy organizations. Whatever the other issues are, and there will be plenty of them, we will all need resources in order to be equipped to do the right thing. "A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: But the simple pass on, and are punished" (Prov. 22:3).