Will Grigg's Liberty Minute

December 17, 2007

A young woman on a Christmas shopping spree in New York City complained to the New York Times: ?We had trouble spending all our money.?

Dear listener, when was the last time you had that problem?

This young lady was not an aristocrat, but rather a 27-year-old nurse from Great Britain, whose pound sterling is worth more than twice the value of the ever-depreciating dollar. She and her friends gorged their suitcases with designer clothes and flew back across the Atlantic with money left unspent.

American fashion designer Erica Nevins has had exactly the opposite experience. While visiting Marrakech, Morocco a few weeks ago, Miss Nevins was moved by the plight a street beggar and handed the little girl a dollar. The young mendicant looked with disdain on the greenback, telling Nevins: ?I don't want this. This is nothing.?

When the dollar is worth ?nothing? in the slums of Marrakech, it's clear our economy is headed for disaster.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.