Harvey, Atlas and Freelance

Check out the above video. Paul Harvey died in 2009 but in the sixties he composed the recorded statement in the video. Was that man a prophet?

I fear that unless America repents and turns back to God, the country will go the way of the Dodo Bird in less than ten years. We're right at that tipping point.

I was also watching "Atlas Shrugged" the other day and was marveling how close our society is to the sort of big government portrayed in that film/book. The American government has redefined words just like the big government in that movie. American government has been using words like "tolerance" as a synonym for "intolerant of anyone who won't agree with my point of view." In that movie they used phrases like "for the common good of the people" as license to bury "evil" capitalism and to convince people to sign over their copyrights and patents in a way that was tantamount to stealing. The idea that someone who has worked hard to earn a living and to develop a product that sells to earn a living should give up their earnings and their ideas to those who have not worked for them makes very little sense and history continually shows us that socialism doesn't make for a thriving economy or country. There's a thin veneer between our current American society and the one portrayed in the movie/book - the rich getting richer, the poor getting poorer, the middle class going extinct, unemployment numbers climbing each day, government "taking care of the people" and giving false hope (because since the numbers are what they are, even the government can't borrow enough to feed/clothe the number of jobless) - is any of this sounding like what's happening now in our society? Of course it does!

I just completed the second devotional book design for a new client I bumped into on craigslist. I am surprised everything's turned out so well. They were on their second designer for that job and were ready to get something done. Anyway, the second version I just completed was a Spanish version. That was fun. The client was well organized and it made for a virtually stress-less design job for me. I didn't charge nearly enough, mostly because it was for a cause I believed in and because I had not done a book over about 30 pages, nor had I worked within createspace.com's design standards. I knew there was going to be a learning curve involved so I didn't want to charge too much for all of that extra time I knew I would have to spend preparing to design that job. Anyway, they just needed someone to design the book on the cheap - didn't want the book to look cheaply designed, just didn't want to pay an arm and a leg for the design. Now that I have both of those under my design belt, I am confident that I could easily do another book or two at the going rate for book design instead of that crazy cut rate I charged for these last two jobs.

Here's another great video with Paul Harvey's voice over: