When did Christ's teaching include a political endorsement.

Unfortunately I attended a church for 6 months, where the Paster mixed biblical teaching from the bible with political endorsements. The fact that he never connected the biblical teaching directly with the political endorsement never bothered him. I remember asking him a couple times about something that was clearly not in the bible, but was a held belief. For example he believed, he knew in detail from the bible how our world was created. The fact is we don't know from the bible. He loved cars and truly believed it was our right as Christians to own and drive cars. Owning and driving a car has absolutely nothing to do with sharing God's love with your neighbour in need.

It makes me sick as a Christian to think he was member of the denotations national/international governing board. And every time he came back from a national or overseas meeting he was even more religiously assured of his political beliefs. Its unfortunate but Christian leaders like this make me want to run away from God. They believe that a Liberal Christian is not Christian. I am not in favour of homosexual Christian marriages, but otherwise I am not against non-Christian homosexuals. There are far worse crimes against humanity in my eyes. Because of this spoken view I am not a Christian in their eyes. Am I?, I feel my spirit taken away. I know I cannot give my life to care for others who may careless about me, without God's spirit caring my burden. I search the bible for answers, try to understand its teaching, listening to others for many times I am wrong, and asking God's spirit of caring love to live within me guiding me to a responsible life.

Thankfully I now have a Paster who ran away from the American bible belt. He understands when I said, sometimes I feel as a Christian trying to live my life without deceit, I have more in common with Atheist. Atheist are not religiously assured of their political believes.”

High Canadian Dollar Inflation

In two years the Canadian Dollar has risen 16%. August 2005 the Canadian Dollar was at 0.82 US. Now August 2006 the Canadian Dollar is at 0.95 US. The rapid inflation of the Canadian Dollar is economically irresponsible. This rapid inflation has resulted in unsaleable inventory and manufactured goods. As a result of the rapid dollar inflation, 16% has been subtracted from already tight gross margins. Left with negative revenue and with only an a increasing dollar in sight many companies have no choice but to move manufacturing out of Canada.

A disproportion amount of Canada's inflation has come from oil exploration. At the same time Canada has one of the lowest oil extraction taxes in the world. This has disproportionally attracted oil exploration money into Canada. At the same time other export centred sectors are facing deflation. Rather than increasing interest rates, while encouraging high oil exploration capital inflow by the disproportionately low oil extraction taxes. Canada should increase its oil extraction taxes to slow the high inflows of capital for oil exploration.

In 2006 Venezuela increased their oil extraction tax from 17% to 33%. At the same time Canada is set to reduce its federal and provincial oil extraction tax by 50%. Tax breaks and subsidies for the oil sands development only increase the capital inflow driving the rapid dollar inflation. Measures need to be taken to correct this economically irresponsible rapid dollar inflation. Please see out dated oil royalty system.
http://www.business.ualberta.ca/cabree/Shell/Check_Paper.pdf
http://alc.whitematter.ca/index.php/alc/content/shadow_energy_minister_hugh_macdonalds_presentation_to_the_royalty_review_p/

Fixing the oil royalty system by simplifying the tax and increasing the oil extraction tax will take pressure off the Canadian dollar. This will allow the dollar to be lowed. And if necessary the dollar can be increased or decreased slowing from the value it was before the rapid dollar inflation.