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August 2002

Vol.5, No. 7

Contents

What Do You Mean, "Under God"?;
by Cecil E. Maranville

Restoration: Hope Beyond the Headlines
by Darris McNeely

Money Won't Solve These Problems
by Melvin Rhodes

When Is Enough...Enough?
by Darris McNeely

In Brief... World News Reviews
by Cecil E. Maranville, John Ross Schroeder and Jim Tuck

This Is the Way...Getting Underneath the Skin
by Robin Webber

August '02 Main

Money Won't Solve These Problems

The recent International AIDS Conference in Barcelona called on rich nations to spend still more money on AIDS. Governments spending more money won't solve this or any other problem.

by Melvin Rhodes

It's been less than a decade since the death of the British-born political scientist C. Northcote Parkinson, best known for Parkinson's Law, a law of economics that governments in particular seem determined to repeatedly prove correct.

Parkinson's Law: the Pursuit of Progress was published in 1957 at a time when the British Empire was shrinking in size, while the Colonial Office that presided over it increased its staff from 372 in 1935 to 1,661 in 1954. Observing this interesting development, Parkinson came to his repeatedly proven law of economics: "work expands to fill the time available for its completion, and subordinates multiply at a fixed rate, regardless of the amount of work produced" (Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia, 1998, p. 722). Some would say it's as certain as the law of gravity. Governments especially are prone to constantly be expanding with little if any positive results actually being achieved.

This is exactly what God warned the ancient Israelites about when they wanted a king "like all the nations" (1Samuel 8:5). God then warned the people of Israel what having such a governmental system would inevitably lead to. Read verses 11 to 18--it's Parkinson's Law written three thousand years before Parkinson, showing again just how relevant the Bible can be to us today. God's warning to the people was that their government would keep on growing and would cost them more and more as time went on. "And you will cry out in that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, and the Lord will not hear you in that day" (verse 18).

Read the full article at www.wnponline.org/wnp/wnp0208/moneyproblems.htm


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