Half of US counties now considered disaster areas

[Guest]

http://news.yahoo.com/half-us-counti...210826921.html

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Nearly 220 counties in a dozen drought-stricken states were added Wednesday to the U.S. government's list of natural disaster areas as the nation's agriculture chief unveiled new help for frustrated, cash-strapped farmers and ranchers grappling with extreme dryness and heat.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's addition of the 218 counties means that more than half of all U.S. counties — 1,584 in 32 states — have been designated primary disaster areas this growing season, the vast majority of them mired in a drought that's considered the worst in decades.

[cornerstone33]

Re: Half of US counties now considered disaster areas

http://news.yahoo.com/half-us-counti...210826921.html

Unfortunately, this just the beginning and as we progress towards the rapture/trib, it will just get worse. We truly are in the last hours now, america has really become sodom and gomorrah thanks to the dems and their liberal/ungodly agenda, and God is bringing his judgement swiftly.

[Issachar]

Re: Half of US counties now considered disaster areas

I don't doubt the drought at all .. I live in the middle of corn/wheat/soy world as do many of us.



But ... when the federal government gets involved; I question. Bet you wouldn't have guessed that ...

What I am seeing in many areas .. myself, as well as talking to various people I know in agri-land; U.S. .. is that it is horrible in many places - e.g. the three kernels of corn on a whole cobb that we see on the news - but in many, many places, though way dry of a year, is that the corn and soy are growing pretty well. So I wonder when the U.S. gov't "declares" disaster zones .. for whatever reason(s), how much of it is politics? Will their actually be food shortages this winter? Next year? Could be .. we'll see. Or is it a deft way for the government to get more of those fiat dollars out into circulation? Many billions are going to go out to "drought stricken" counties all across America. But do they actually need them? Farmers, at least the ones I know, can often ride through a bad year .. some better than others for sure .. and may need some handout .. but the amount we'll find out that the feds will hand out will be quite a lot. Of course, they don't have money to hand out and it will be more "out of thin air" dollars, which is inflation, soon to be reflected in purchases by higher prices .. but what better way to do that, from their standpoint, than to be able to say, "The high prices are due to the drought."

It's kind of like how EVERY winter, we hear on the news about how a "unusual freeze" caused a LOT of fruit crop loss, but the store always has lots of fruit anyway.

It's kind of how certain species of whatevers are "endangered" and so the government places them on the "endangered species" list .. which, years ago so I don't know how much now .. in 2008, was $150 billion.

In the United States, 735 species of plants and 496 species of animals are listed as threatened or endangered.

source

That's .. combined .. 1,231 species. $150,000,000,000 / 1,231 = almost $122 million per (average). Someone gets some biiiiig paychecks. Sorry .. all that is way off of this thread ...

I just wonder about government involvement in some things ...

Issachar, does know that there is a drought going on ..

[Issachar]

Re: Half of US counties now considered disaster areas

Cornerstone33 .. you posted while I was constructing my little rant post.

I do agree about the the moral fall of the nation and God's present .. and coming .. attempts at getting folks to repent. Could be that we (the church at large) need to be ready in Word in conjunction with God's actions. ??? (Just a thought ...)

Issachar

[Boston]

Re: Half of US counties now considered disaster areas

I can’t help but notice that the areas struck by disaster are once again the predominantly Christian areas of the nation. Not fully, but decidedly the majority of the red areas. If we are going to ascribe God’s wrath to these situations it behooves us to look at 1 peter seriously. We can have a silly tendency to point a finger at dead bodies and say – “they stink” (makes us feel good )… but I think Gods view is first to the living ( the saved ) and asking them what they are doing about it.

1 peter 4:
17For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begins with us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

18And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

19Therefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.

[Guest]

Re: Half of US counties now considered disaster areas

Excellent post Boston! )

[Guest]

Re: Half of US counties now considered disaster areas

My view is that God uses suffering and sorrow to try and test us to purify us. If these things are happening to those predominantly believing states, counties, cities, it is likely His way of waking them up, chastening them as sons, dressing their eyes with salve and their bodies with raiment so their nakedness may not be seen. If it's true that He is about to descend with a shout, our suffering for a while is probably just the medicine we need to get us ready to meet Him!

I can’t help but notice that the areas struck by disaster are once again the predominantly Christian areas of the nation. Not fully, but decidedly the majority of the red areas. If we are going to ascribe God’s wrath to these situations it behooves us to look at 1 peter seriously. We can have a silly tendency to point a finger at dead bodies and say – “they stink” (makes us feel good )… but I think Gods view is first to the living ( the saved ) and asking them what they are doing about it.

1 peter 4:
17For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begins with us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

18And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

19Therefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.