{"id":5675,"date":"2020-03-05T16:31:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T16:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rrfluton.org.uk\/rrfblog\/?p=5675"},"modified":"2020-03-05T19:37:59","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T19:37:59","slug":"lloyd-dennys-blog-number-378-4th-march-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rrfluton.org.uk\/rrfblog\/?p=5675","title":{"rendered":"Lloyd Denny’s blog Number 378 – 4th March 2020."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cPOWER NOT FOR SALE\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael Bloomberg, the\nmulti billionaire pulled out of the running to become the Democratic Party candidate\nfor the presidential election in November 2020 after spending half billion dollars\nor $500, 000,000 on the campaign. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision to pull out followed his very poor showing on Super Tuesday primaries, on 3rd<\/sup> March. So called because on this one Tuesday a total of 14 States deliver their vote on the candidate they want to represent them. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael\nBloomberg despite spending all this money came nowhere and pulled out of the\nrace. He entered the race three months ago and left it yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a\nstatement Mr Bloomberg said: “three months\nago, I entered the race for president to defeat Donald Trump. Today, I am\nleaving the race for the same reason\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I do not impugn Mr Bloomberg\u2019s motive but take it at face value but\nwould add I am pleased he did not succeed because presidential power should not\nbe available for sale. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The incumbent used his money to secure the 2016 presidential election but at least Donald Trump came into the race from the very start, stumbled a number of times but continued to the very end defeating all and sundry to become president. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael Bloomberg only came into the race recently and thought his extraordinary\nwealth would make him succeed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The half billion dollars could have done so much good for literally millions\nof people in the poorest places of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Water Wells for Africa (WWFA), the average cost of a well, though dependent on materials, labour wages, depth of the well, type of pump and remoteness of the village is $8,000 USD in a country like Malawi and Mozambique. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This\nfigure includes more than drilling a hole and installing a pump. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to WWFA the\ncost of the well also includes the provision of information and training to the\nvillage on matters of hygiene and sanitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The training is\nessential for the well to continue functioning, and without hygienic\npractices, clean water is much less effective at reducing health\nissues because people are still exposing themselves to disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each well serves 2,000 people. That means it costs $4.00 to give a person clean water and help them live long and live better. Is that expensive? Not by any means. For every latte ordered at Star Bucks, WWFA could use that money to supply a person with clean water for 20 years. Imagine what could have been done with $500, 000, 000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simon the Sorcerer in\nActs 8 in the bible offered money to buy spiritual power and was firmly rebuked\nby Apostle Peter. The apostle told him: \u201cthy money perish with\nthee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with\nmoney.21 <\/sup><\/strong>Thou hast neither part nor lot in this\nmatter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God. 22 <\/sup><\/strong>Repent\ntherefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine\nheart may be forgiven thee. 23 <\/sup><\/strong>For I perceive\nthat thou art in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After receiving such\na firm rebuke and fearing the consequences, Simon pled for mercy and repented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I do hope Michael\nBloomberg reflects much upon the money he wasted and help the world\u2019s poorest\nwith some of the many billions he still has. I will be praying that his\nconscience trouble him and he makes amends before it\u2019s too late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our platform is the world and congregation the people.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lord\u2019s servant<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lloyd Denny<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cPOWER NOT FOR SALE\u201d Michael Bloomberg, the multi billionaire pulled out of the running to become the Democratic Party candidate for the presidential election in November 2020 after spending half billion dollars or $500, 000,000 on the campaign. The decision to pull out followed his very poor showing on Super Tuesday primaries, on 3rd March. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rrfluton.org.uk\/rrfblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5675"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rrfluton.org.uk\/rrfblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rrfluton.org.uk\/rrfblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rrfluton.org.uk\/rrfblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rrfluton.org.uk\/rrfblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5675"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.rrfluton.org.uk\/rrfblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5682,"href":"http:\/\/www.rrfluton.org.uk\/rrfblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5675\/revisions\/5682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rrfluton.org.uk\/rrfblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rrfluton.org.uk\/rrfblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rrfluton.org.uk\/rrfblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}