“Obama’s War on Wall Street”
by JVS on Jan.22, 2010, under 2010
This headline from the front page of this morning’s Report on Business was written in response to new, more restrictive, banking regulations that are being proposed by the Obama administration. The new laws are intended to curb banking greed and speculation, and protect main street’s money. After reading the article, I sat down to read my bible (don’t read anything into my reading priorities!), and came across these words from Jesus, “Be generous. Give to the poor. Get yourselves a bank that can’t go bankrupt, a bank in heaven, far from bank robbers, safe from embezzlers, a bank you can bank on. It’s obvious isn’t it? The place where your treasure is, is the place you will most want to be, and end up being.” Luke 12, MSG
Jesus’ big picture view made me smile. Here Obama is fighting the banking establishment so that our money will be better protected, and Jesus is saying its really not about money at all; don’t let it define you, don’t invest too heavily in it and don’t make it your god. The underlying problem in our society is that we overly define ourselves by our bottom lines. Everything is about the mad scramble to invest our time, effort and regulatory systems to better them. What Jesus is saying is, “You need to change your whole system of self definition.”
So, you have to wonder if tweaking the rules so that our money better protected will in any way help us do that.
