I’ll just come out and say it. I’m a member of the LDS church. I believe that God still calls prophets as his mouth piece on the earth, and I believe that today, that prophet is Gordon B. Hinckley.
He delivered a speech a number of years back where in the middle of a portion that was on finances he said the following:
“There is a portent of stormy weather ahead to which we had better give heed.”
I said this was a “number of years back,” but it was in 1998 during a talk called “To the Boys and to the Men.” What exactly did he mean by this?
Looking Back
Maybe I’m being a little more candid and a little more personal than normal, but when I look back at this statement made in October of 1999 and then I look at what occurred during the next few years . . . well . . . I think “stormy weather” was the perfect metaphor.
But I really don’t look at the “proof” so much as the clarity with which that statement “portent of stormy weather” so often came to my mind after hearing it. My question now is this: Have we seen this portent of stormy weather already come and pass or is it still here and arriving?
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Certainly not passed. There’s a year or more to go yet. He should have told his followers to get themselves into fixed-term mortgages.
Plenty of turmoil in the economy: http://del.icio.us/cboyack/economy
What I find also interesting is the seven years of plenty and famine issue.
It was also said shortly before Bush took office, exploding our national debt from 5.3 trillion to over 9 already. We borrow at 2 billion dollars a day. Soon, the collectors will come calling… and then it’ll get real stormy!
I agree with Connor. Our government is spending too much and the entitlement programs—as they are today—will cause that spending to rapidly swell. I think individuals are feeling the pain now and the nation, as a whole, will be feeling the pain soon.
I don’t think the storm is over…not even close.
It’s just starting. And the scary thing is, I think most people are sitting fat and happy and have no clue it’s about to hit us big time.
I admire your conviction, Russ.
The financial stormy weather hasn’t even hit yet, not to mention a whole bunch of other frightening scenarios.
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