I would rather live without, do with less and give up basic luxuries than see my grandchildren and great-grandchildren burdened with the amount of debt they will be enslaved to pay off because of the radical multi-trillion-dollar spending bills passed by the foolish members of our federal government.

What right have they to enslave our descendants! Let there be no doubt, debt is slavery.

In rereading the Old Testament’s Book of Nehemiah, this time, given the state of our present political and economic environment, the words are alive, a living, breathing prophecy, an allegory for our times. History is repeating itself!

If you don’t believe me, I suggest that you read Nehemiah’s Chapter 1 through 6 to understand the context of the words.

If you don’t see the clear retelling of today’s political and economic climate, then I recommend you start reading “authentic” news.

In Nehemiah 5, the Jews were facing extreme economic and social conditions, and cried out, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses to get grain...”

And still others said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tax on our fields and our vineyards.... Yet we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.”

Like America, the Jews were deeply in debt. The Babylonians took the Jews into captivity, and the people of God became slaves to the sinful pagans of Babylonia.

Just as the Jews were indebted and enslaved, it’s justified to ask, “who will ultimately hold our mortgages? Who will own our homes and land when we are so bankrupt that all means of payment fail? What will be our fate?”

If we don’t start saying “no” to the government’s uncontrolled spending of our tax dollars, we will most certainly fall like the people of Nehemiah’s time.

As fun and exciting as the government’s spending sounds, the 2,000-page “infrastructure bill,” with all its freebies and high-tech incentives, is teeming with waste, bribery,and payoffs.

How do they expect to foot this excessive bill with all its hidden deals?

They know that, and they also know as defined in Proverbs 22:7 “The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.”

In fact, they are “banking” on those words.