Our minds

Our minds may be one of the most important tools we have to use.  3 lbs of gelatin like substance located between your ears will gather information using all your senses, process this information and create a response to the gathered information. Your mind is what tells you what to do, how to act, what to say. It will lead you down either the right path or the wrong path. How do control your mind and the decisions it makes? By controlling the information that goes into your mind. Not a very easy task in this day and age, with Hollywood, drugs, media, or whatever bad influences you can think of. The negative influences are all around us. We live in the devil's world but we don't have to live of the world. He is constantly tempting us with anything he can get his hands on, movies, tv shows, magazines, pornography. Your eyes send these tempting images to your brain, and your brain throws the idea around. STOP. It's already to late, soon as you start mulling over the idea in your head you begin to tell yourself, "it's not that bad" "it won't hurt anyone" "I'll only do it once". You have to control what your eyes see. If you know a certain magazine has tempting photos, don't even pick it up. Throw out all the movies in your house that are not pleasing to God, that's right throw them out, don't give them away, you don't want them to be temptation for someone else. Look at women in the eyes, do not gawk at their body. Clear out all the evil from your home and replace it with good. Teach your children at a young age to do the same, that way it will be easier for them to continue the Godly lifestyle. Don't just tell your kids how to live, be that example for them. Control what goes into your mind, so that the right decisions will be the natural decision. Your brain is an powerful, complex tool given to you by God, use it to honor Him.

Taxes

The big debate is whether president Obama increases or decreases taxes. I found an article that breaks down the math for us. Obama says "I also lowered taxes for small businesses 18 times. And what I want to do is continue the tax rate — the tax cuts that we put into place for small businesses and families". 8 of these were temporary and are no longer in place. 5 were enacted by president Bush. The 5 left over results in 3 billion dollars. Now he wants to raise taxes by 52 billion according to figures from the joint committee on taxation and the IRS. Of course some people will argue that he has cut taxes more than president Bush. Bush's tax cuts in the first four years were about 475 billion. Obama's tax cut's in the first four years were 1 trillion which includes Bush's tax cuts that were extended. If it weren't for Bush's tax cuts being extended, Obama's total tax cuts would come out to 290 billion. We can talk figures all we want, but the numbers don't matter if the business owners and hard working American don't see the cuts. Obama's "tax cuts" include tax incentives, which means you have to spend money to see the savings. So all that money can go towards the stats, but is it really helping? Are the business owners really saving money?