The Wizards of Washington D.C.

The current economic maelstrom consuming the world's attention reminds me of a critical scene in the classic movie, "The Wizard of Oz". Dorothy and her friends finally make it to the land of Oz to seek the missing pieces in their lives in the audience of the great cosmic power of the Wizard of Oz. Behind the curtain we find a weak and ineffective leader who has a  lot of smoke but no fire.
  In the last week, the curtain has been drawn back upon the Wizards of Washington D.C., the European Union (as well as Wall Street) have been found to be severely lacking in their ability to fix the collapsing confidence of a broken world. The banks and the welfare of many people around the world has been simply robbed by clever but heartless bankers and political scoundrels. Now when we hear the voices of the wizards no one believes.... no one is moved to cower back into our caves of false comfort. We simply don't believe their words anymore.
  We are in for a 'day of reckoning' and austerity. We no longer can be cajoled into spending money we don't have or to believe that the wizards know best. The entire Western World has become indebted to the point of insolvency... bankrupt. If we are to avoid war and anarchy we need a moral renewal much alike the great awakenings of early America. Democracy in times of crisis is dependent on a moral people.... to restrain us from fear, criminal behavior and absolute chaos.
  We have become a world where evil is called good... and good evil. There is more fear about people being called to prayer than there is to ongoing riots in the streets of London or Syria. We have lost the moral foundation that produces prosperity and wonder how we wound up broke. Our financial condition personally and corporately is a reflection of who we are on the inside. We are empty and uncertain about what is really true...what is really important and thus our civilization is at a massive turning point. The way forward is in fact to look back and search for the conditions and realities that produced our prosperity in the first place... a commitment to truth and absolutes that cannot be sullied and ignored for very much longer.
Praying for a 3rd great awakening to shake the world and return us to God.

Jim