Why the U.S. is in such economic upheaval . . .

In the former country of Rhodesia (now called Zimbabwe) the ruling elite (white Europeans) had been brutal in their economic exploitation of the indigenous African people. Once Zimbabwe was liberated, however, the draconian dictator Robert Mugabe espousing Marxism (Mugabe is a lapsed Catholic) then, in "good Stalinist-style," sought to reallocate land away from white Europeans and to the African ruling elite of his country (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mugabe).

So how does this apply to the United States of America?

Well, like the colonized nations of Africa and Latin America, like it or not, the U.S.A. has been built up first on the backs of black African slaves, then on the hard-fought sweat labor of Poles, Irish, Mexican and other ethnic Catholic enclaves, and now finally, on the sweaty brow of the white European-descended middle class.

Our C.E.O.'s enslave us, and rather than unifying around the name of Jesus Christ (i.e. the first economic reform movement leading to minimum wage law, anti-child labor law, etc.) now the only options left are meek compliance with the Oil Barons, the C.E.O.'s and the Bankers OR to elect Barack Obama.

Barack Obama, an eloquent orator, Harvard-Law trained, and the son of a Kenyan father and American mother could very well become the next President of the United States of America!

Sadly, due to racist, jingoist rhetoric on the right, whether the new President is named Obama or named McCain, the sad state of the U.S.A. will be an increasingly divided Nation State--divided racially, divided ethnically, divided financially!

Thanks Mitt Romney and fellow racists in the G.O.P.!

Your earlier anti-Hispanic paranoia has led to the impoverishment of the Nation!

As Jesus Christ Himself once said, "a house divided will not stand!"

And so, in seeking an alternative to being further enslaved by Republicans catering to BIG BUSINESS, we will now welcome in an untested president (Barack Obama), a man who had to accept abortion-on-demand and homosexual marriage to get himself elected, and now, sad to see, also a DIVIDED NATION!

But, like St. Augustine wrote in his City of God concerning the collapse of Rome, so also must the true blood-bought believer in Jesus Christ not despair!

Yes, yes, the U.S.A. will be 'dirt poor' for a while, barely able to afford food, gas and electricity, but as St. Augustine wrote concerning our true citizenship, our home and thus our ONLY true political allegiance is in Heaven with Jesus Christ!

A DIVIDED NATION, A UNIFIED HEAVEN

IN JESUS CHRIST'S NAME, Rob J. King