It never pays in the long run to leave your Creator out of your equations.  We may be seeing a financial meltdown of the world's strongest economy.  One of the reasons is that we are spending more than we can possibly tax.  It doesn't matter if we raise taxes on the rich, we can't possibly tax people enough to pay for a budget that spends over 20% of our GDP.

One of the reasons the debt is so high is that welfare and medicare/aid payments increase each year as more of the baby-boomers reach retirement age.  These programs were put in place in Europe and the US when legislators couldn't imagine a declining birth rate, BUT for the last 3.5 decades we have been aborting our children.  We have aborted more than 50 million of our children in the US between 1973 and 2008.

We are arrogant to the point of insanity.  We make decisions about who we will love, where we will work, what laws we will pass, what medical decisions we will make, and how many children we will have all without considering what God thinks of it all -- and then we are surprised when we find that our calculations don't reflect the realities of life.

What is more, the rich themselves will become poor if they scorn marriage vows, as that results in unwanted pregnancies that end fatherless children or abortion.  It is secure families with responsible fathers that make for wealthy and stable communities.  We are literally destroying our future generations through debt and abortion, and only now does it dawn on us that the two are related.  If we abort our children, why shouldn't we find one day that there are not enough workers to pay for our government programs, or manage our debt service?

So, we covet, murder, and dishonor our parents, overspend to have all the creature comforts we want, then when we feel guilty instead of repentance and love of neighbor, we turn and offer the same materialist life to those who are less fortunate:  we demand that the government pay for comforts for everyone, which runs our government into bankruptcy.  But then we control the future generations through abortion in order to save ourselves the shame, duty, cost, or trial of caring for the children we have conceived.  This is the very definition of madness.   Could this be our lot when we decide to leave God out of our decision process?  Read Romans 1 again.

"It does not do to leave a dragon out of your calculations if you live near him."  said JRR Tolkien.

God is much closer than any dragon, and ignoring Him is infinitely more dangerous.