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The prophet says, give them to the men, that they may eat, for that as of the lord they should eat and have some rest. So he set it before them in the eight, and they had some left, just as the lord told them, theres an incident from the new testament where, jesus is confronted with a crowd of people 5000, how will we feed all these people . One of his disciples says heres a young boy with five barley loaves and two fish. Not a lot. It could take like six months of pay to feed the crowd of 5000. Jesus said, bring it up. He gave thanks to it, and the whole crowd was fed and there was more than enough. I remember, my pastor saying, it does not matter how little you are, you can be a little guy, and i was a little guy, you can be a child, boy, girl, it does not matter, when there is a need, if you bring your little bit however little bit you might have, god will use that to meet the need to. He was trying to tell us, it did not matter, how little we had. If we use it safely and faithfully for a righteous cause it will help a big need to be met. I have been thinking about that lesson, for a long time as ive been contemplating what are we gonna talk about, in terms of world war ii and paying for world war ii. In the days of world war ii the need was indeed great. Franklin roosevelt as president made a number of speeches to the American People in the weeks right after the attack in pearl harbor and one thing he impressed in the American People, was that everybody, rich, poor, old, young, did not matter had a role to pay play a very important one. In getting this monumental job done of paying for the war, and winning the war. Im giving you an excerpt of his state of the Union Address from 1942. Just a few sentences that will encapsulate what he was talking about here. And how he was urging all americans to do their little bit. Fdr came before congress, and the American People on that occasion, and he said, war, cost money. So far, we have hardly even begun to pay for it. We have devoted only 15 of our National Income to national defense. As it will appear in my budget message tomorrow. Our war program for the coming fiscal year, will cost 56 billion. Or, in other words more than half of the estimated annual, National Income. That means taxes, and bonds, and bonds and taxes. It means cutting luxuries, and other nonessentials. In a word, it means an all out war, by individual effort, and family effort, in a united country. Now, when he was talking about individual effort, and family effort he was talking about kids as well. Family effort meant that even if you were over here, on the home front, and your loved ones were fighting overseas over there as the popular song went, there was still work, that you could do to help to defeat the enemy. Everybody, both young and old and no matter how much you have or dont have, had a very Important Role to play. In the United States war effort. Roosevelt wanted to make a very, very sure that everybody was clear about that. Early in that new year of 1942, United States treasury is already going to work, trying to figure out how to get american to help pay for the war. Was about talked about taxes, and bonds, and bonds, and taxes. We know what taxes are right . Its when the government compels you to pay certain part of your income, to meet the cost of government doing what it has to do. But what are bonds . A bond is a i owe you, write that down an i owe you, its a statement that the United States government owes you money. Basically what uncle sam was doing was saying, we will have people pay as taxes to pay for this thing, but, we will also have to go into debt to pay for this thing. Now, a show of hands, how many people have some sort of United States savings on to . Bonds . How many people have been given Something Like that for a birthday or graduation or something of that kind . Right . It is a very, very interesting looking piece of paper that is not a toy. You open the card, its a very official looking piece of paper and what your parents may have to explain is that it is a u. S. Savings bonds, which means, you keep it, you dont do anything with it for a while, but in a few years you will be able to cash it, and get money so you can pay for your education, this, that important things is an investment in the future, by having uncle sam go into debt to you. Okay . That is a savings bond. What the United States treasury, decided to do, was to initiate a savings bond program specifically for the purpose of collecting money for the war effort. Okay, how much . Well, you can get a United States savings bond at that time for as low in the amount as low as 18. 75. If you gave United States government 18. 75 and that said hey, i wan to buy a bond, and you waited several years for that want to mature, it would give you back, 25. Is not a bad deal home . Home . You get 25 back years later but the slow lending uncle sam money, to win the war. I dont know about you, but what if youre a little kid in 1942 . A little kid with his hands in his pockets and one thing that i have in his pockets is 18. 75. Because remember 1942, theyre just coming out of the great depression. So, am i out of this great crusade and the u. S. Government says no, you can buy something called United States savings stamps. United states savings stamps . Yes, this is what you would do, you get yourself a Little Green Book like this. In that Little Green Book, you would place every time you would go and buy