Crise

(This is,a political post) Brazil is experiencing a major crisis as attested by a number of brethren who have spoken to me about it. The last election in Brazil was,filled with corruption and major vote fraud. The socialist candidate, freed from prison after being sentenced for corruption, by a leftist judge,won, and is now robbing the country blind. It is tragic. As Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of Great Britain famously said, "socialism works until it runs out of other people's money. This is happening in Brazil. As in the US, the middle class is being hollowed out. Any true democracy and individual freedom comes historically from a large and thriving middle class. This is actually rare on this planet. The vast majority of societies have a small, rich elite who have the money to hire essentially mercenaries to protect them while almost everyone else is poor. I think of a young couple I know. One is a lawyer, the other a nurse. Both are intelligent and work hard. Yet over bearing taxes, inflation and corruption leave them little. They don't have a car and live in a small apartment. Our only hopd in this world is Jesus Christ.