Never Compromise Your Principles

The Democrats in Congress talk much about compromise.  They say that they want to compromise but the Republicans under the influence of the Tea Partiers do not want to compromise.  The Tea Partiers do not desire to compromise because they stand on principle.  They feel that we cannot keep spending money as the Democrats desire or, eventually, the United States will go bankrupt and collapse as a nation.  However, the Democrats will have nothing to do with that as all they want to do is to tax the people and spend money like it is going out of style.

This situation reminds me of the story of King Solomon (1 Kings 3:16-28).  Two women came to him to resolve a problem.  Both women had given birth to a child each.  One woman’s child had died during the night, and so she switched the dead child with the live child of the other woman.  The next morning when they arose, the other woman found her child was dead, but further realized that it was not her child.  A verbal tug-of-war transpired between the two women.  After a while, the woman who had switched her dead child the night before with the child from the other woman suggested that they go before King Solomon to resolve the problem.

After hearing both women plead their cases, King Solomon called for a sword.  King Solomon told his aid to divide the live child in two and give half to each of the women.  The woman who was the real mother of the live child then pleaded with King Solomon not to kill the child but to give it to the other woman instead.  King Solomon, realizing that she was the real mother, then gave the live child to the woman who desired not to compromise her principles and decided to give her child to the other woman.

The Tea Partiers refuse to compromise on principle; however, the Democrats do not care about principles, and compromise is all-important to them.  This is why they would rather raise the national debt, tax the people to death, and spend, spend, spend until our economy collapses and the nation goes under.  We must never compromise our principles.

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