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How does that effect the average American? Would I no longer be able to go to the store and buy ground beef? Will it just be harder to travel abroad using American currency?

What does this even mean? I don't understand how debt works on a national level. I feel like people throw around these phrases and they don’t even know what they mean.

Unless you are a market insider you cannot time the market. And even then.............  If you want to sell high and buy low, get into a “balanced” Mutual Fund. This is your best chance. And even then........... Beat me to it. In retrospect, buying low and selling high is obviously the strategy... but that is only possible in retrospect. If it was really as simple as buying low and selling high, why aren’t we all doing that and creating infinite wealth?? When investing, trying to time those price spikes is like trying to time an earthquake. You just can’t do it. Nor is there any guarantee it will go up. im no financial advisor, but I don’t like investing in non-businesses I particularly like the good ones that drive the American economy, those have always been going up. Invest in American is my approach.

I certainly did, didn’t use the same terminology though. I talked about how socialism creates systems to help the people who are poor due to legitimize circumstance, but the programs bleed predominantly into situations where people are just being lazy. This one size fits all approach enables many lazy people to continue to be lazy

Christianity doesn’t have a monopoly on goodness. Nor are atheists evil. But Christianity fosters the attributes needed for capitalism and provides the community needed to develop the relationships needed to assist those in need.

And to address the elephant before it gets used against me, yes there are countless ways people can get poor due to life events. Disease, death, disasters, etc. How we react to these exceptions is what separates socialism from capitalism. Capitalism requires Christlike individuals to help out. Socialism relies on government programs, and for every 1 person that gets aid in those times of difficulty, there are 10 more people that don’t need the aid but are using the system to not work and get free hand outs. I predict that capitalism will disappear more and more as Christianity diminishes across the world. Capitalism without Christianity is just a barbaric survival of the fittest

If all that was available were “private” schools, the price to get your kids involved in them would drop due to the increase competition. I don’t have a firm opinion on it, but maybe there could still be some government funding involved that is paid through local taxes, but the less government involved in education the better. Life is going to be better for the wealthy no matter what, there will always be more options for them and less for the poor. That is not an immoral thing. What is immoral is having an established society forces equal opportunity for the poor and wealthy. A people cannot he successful when they enable the lazy and wasteful members of the society. When you are poor, majority of the time it is because you are lazy and/or bad with money. Redistribute all the money in the USA and in 10 years time the people who were originally poor will be poor again and the people who were originally rich will be rich again. Being poor is not an unalterable genetic disorder, it is a way of life.

I’ve been thinking a bit about this and I think I have arrived to a conclusion on your criticism on capitalists, and I imagine most other capitalists would agree with me. 1) A nation’s purpose is to uphold the ideals of its people and that cannot be done without a military, police, court, and prison system. Because of that, we are all for those taxes. If we tried to privatize this, we would have 100+ mini countries around the US. 2) I am fine paying taxes on things like fire services, libraries, and road work because they support my ideals. HOWEVER, should a bill get passed saying that these would all now be privatized or even left to counties or cities, I would be pretty dang excited. It would then be left the to individual communities to decide how they want to support their own neighborhoods. The trash people that don’t want to take care of their communities likely won’t move to the nicer communities and bring them down. And the people who value their country and value education and hard work won’t be forced to support communities of people who don’t value education and hard work. 3) I am completely against paying taxes for education and health care. And I imagine most capitalists are with me on this. If education was privatized, we could pick what kind of education we wanted for our children and what university to attend. We wouldn’t be forced to learn about agenda based topics. Same with healthcare. The free market would provide cheaper health options for those that want to be healthy and more expensive for those that don’t want to be healthy. SIDE NOTES: 1) It has occurred to me more and more that the American ideals are changing. Many today do not want what the founding fathers wanted and built, and unfortunately the constitution and government is set up in such a way to allow the changes that are desired. 2) There are a lot of exceptions that capitalist and socialist governments cannot take in account for. For example in healthcare, look at a person with some medical issue that prevents physical exercise and they have live their life in an unhealthy way due to their physical capabilities. In a capitalist world, they rely on the good will of their community to take care of them. In a socialist society, everyone is forced to help them. Here is the problem with both. For capitalism, if this person lives in a selfish community and has little or no family, there is nothing they can do and they are left to themselves. In a socialist society, There is no one that can go door to door and decide who gets what benefits and we will find communities of people who are perfectly healthy and able to work, but choose not to and fake disability in order to get government hand out. I served in an area on my mission where I saw this every day, perfectly able men who Sat at home angry because the government was lye on getting their monthly check to them. TLDR: government should only be responsibly for protecting the nations ideals through military, police, courts, prisons. Everything else should be privatized for left to individual states/counties. Socialism is wasteful and pulls everyone to middle class Capitalism is efficient, but brutal if you do t live in a righteous community.

Must of us are also against paying for education. But I actually don’t have a great argument for your observations. I think the argument stems on public goods and some other economic terminology I cannot remember. My qualm is why should I pay for a smokers lung replacement surgery? And why should I expect someone else to pay for my insulin because I developed diabetes due to my unhealthy eating habits. I would be ok with a socialized medical system as long as it is in some sort of tier system where you only pay for the health care of others in your own health level. ie tier 1: healthy, exercise regularity, maintain certain BMI, etc. tier 2: certain BMI and activity level. tier 3: obese, smokers, alcoholics, This would incentivize healthy living and make for a better country. That being said, this can be done better in a free market than by a government. Two other issue with socialism is that (1) it takes away an amount of personal responsibility. It tries to force a “Christ like” approach to everything but just results in entitlement. (2) It also puts a lot of services that need individual approaches in the hands of a massive organization. Capitalism has the opposing problem. For capitalism to bless everyone, it requires everyone to be genuinely Christlike and looking after their neighbor. At the end of the day, our biggest issue with socialism is that it blesses the lazy more than the industrious while Capitalism blesses the industrious more than the lazy. What kind of country do we want?

I remember listening to a podcast about the founding of our nation and one comment made was that the government was set up in such a way to allow the people stand up against their government should it start doing things they witness as undesirable. Sounds good on paper, but what happens when the people desire wickedness rather than righteousness. the argument was that this country wasn’t built to maintain its original values, but rather built to be overthrown when the values of the people change. Though this wasn’t the intention of the founders, it is what resulted in their creation.

I absolutely love the freedom found in bullet journals, one thing I enjoy doing is planning out my day by the hour. However, it takes time and effort every night to draw out the schedule format with the hours and space enough to write. Which leads me to look for a bullet journal that comes with a built in day planner. BUT, the next issue I am running into is that all the journals I am finding have a dedicated day planner page followed by 1-3 pages of empty “note” pages. The issue with this is sometimes I take half a page of notes while other times I’ll take 5 pages of notes. This would force me to bleed over to other note pages for other days and have days where there is wasted bullet note pages. So now I need help. I am looking for a journal that contains the following features: - Bullet journal - subtle scheduling format on every page so I can choose to either use that page for scheduling or for note taking - Don’t want to be forced to journal according to the journal’s format (the less format the better) - flame thrower attachment (not a deal breaker if it doesn’t have) Any suggestions? Are there good websites to customize journals?

I wonder if the founding fathers knew that one day it would be the people suppressing their own speech and not the government.

Hopefully he will be a little soggy too

Did I hear that right, that Pictures of Joseph Smith and Hyrum we’re lost in there due to the moisture?

I’ve heard this a lot recently, but know one has cited any real sources. Do you have them?

I don’t think it is a matter of being proud or not proud, but I would gamble that a vast majority of Americans that actually put the effort of flying an American flag are Republicans. though admittedly I have no stats to back that up.

Ive never considered this... but from my experience this is very true

They are ganna steal you DNA to make clones

The church isn’t the gathering place of saints. The temple is. You must be worthy, but anyone can lie their way through to the temple. On top of being worthy, you must enjoy your time there or you will rarely go. The saints of God are those that are worthy, have faith in the revealed truths, and enjoy time spent in the temple.

The over valuing of mortal life is a great stumbling block for many. Death is the ultimate test of faith, often times one’s true faith is revealed when a family member (particularly a young one) dies.

I would change this quite a bit to be more direct: “President Ballard is teaching that there is a link between our love for God and Jesus Christ and our acts of service for others. What does the service you give show about the love you have for your father in heaven?” I wouldn’t wait for a response, instead I would share a real example (like the temple example I mentioned above, or a very real and relatable Personal story where I fell short in a calling). Following that I would ask “Why is it that our service is the measure of our love for God?”

I’ll be honest, I think the wording of this question is very soft. I would actually sharpen it just enough to prick but not appear like an accusation. At ok with the ”what does your service say about your love for Christ?” And leave it there. All the other fluff distracts from that. Don’t really need a response, just a question for everyone to ask themselves. Just to give you an idea of my teaching style: In our ward, we just had a temple built near us and everyone was so excited (as you can imagine). But when the sign ups to clean the temple come around, we are met with blank stares. I would use this as an opportunity to bring up a major issue facing the ward. We all claim to live the temple and to love God, and we were all so excited to get a temple, but no one wants to help maintain it. To me, a lesson isn’t complete without a solid call to repentance. It needs to be done tactfully, but the tactfulness should not distract from the seriousness or the prick to the heart. for example: DONT: “No one in here ever volunteers to clean the temple, you All need to change and repent” (don’t accuse) DO: “We were all excited to get a temple, but I notice that when the temple cleaning opportunities come around, no one volunteers. How can we, as self proclaimed saints, profess our love to God and the temple, but reject opportunities to serve in his very home?” (A community call to repentance that includes yourself)

We do love a free market

Yes... and admittedly I always found that weird

And that was my point. Most people down here aren’t following guidelines and never were.