Posted on 02/16/2010 5:54:08 AM PST by folkquest
Liberty & Tyranny by Mark Levin will give you some good history on the decline on many fronts.
I’ll look it up. Bork is a good man.
I loved Atlas Shrugged. Very prophetic! I actually just listened to it recently on audio books. I highly recommend it. (Just don’t speak with a bureaucrat for a long time after reading it).
Thanks for the outline, combat_boots.
You’re welcome....
Don’t forget the easy citation bots, either, e.g., http://citationmachine.net/
Or the OWL at Purdue...
Wow! Great citation sites! I wish I had them when I was in school! I was thrilled when they invented erasable bond!
Oh, you’re welcome.
Remember that if the order of the statement reads “economic, social and political health at risk,” then it’s critical to discuss the issues in that order: 1) economic, 2) social and 3) political.
If you know the end of paper proposal/call to action/argument to make now, you might want to rearrange the pieces to have maximum impact. Do you want to hit the 1st issue hardest? The last before your conclusion swings into play?
Just a thought.
At some point, perhaps in a later paper, the paper might want to concentrate more on the nature of being “at risk” as opposed to discussing the evidences of risk. That would be a college paper.
For example, recently, someone was on the radio talking about the state of ethics classes in MBA curriculum. Why I happened on that, I don’t know, but I started thinking about the triumph of situational ethics as the method used to further what the ‘Progressives’ have espoused for decades. With the collapse of the climate hoax and the AGW data in peer reviewed literature, clearly, the thought processes that rig the conclusions point to something related to much more than simple evidences of propriety or impropriety. The ethics displaced the data because of an agenda.
The agenda will kill us and is designed to, so as to permit the ‘trickle up’ economy promised in the election of 2008. We are witnessing a collapse of the ability to trust in people and institutions, a phenomena due to the willful rejection of simple moral lessons on right and wrong. This rejection puts everything at risk, including the deeds and words of those exercising power. The defense against such exericise of any and all tactics to justify the ends desired cannot stand, anymore than you can command waves not to roll over on sand.
The clarity of mind and understanding needed to recognize right from wrong—and willingness to choose the right—has nothing to do with fairness or compassion or justice. A person either knows the lie when it’s in front of him, or, he is taken in by its guile. Thus, the arguments to favor the downtrodden, the oppressed, the underprivileged, are not explainable only by Marxist theory, for the logic, the paper and words that lead to actions and laws act as delusions that cleave under pressure to leave the consequences we now see manifest everywhere Americans turn.
The crisis is moral. The effects are simple and catastrophic. Do you choose Marx and Mother Nature as a pseudo-heaven on earth, or do you become the agent of God Almighty in bringing His Kingdom here in Truth?
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/rant off
Margret Thacther said something like “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.” I think it is safe to say the US government has run out of other people’s money at this point of deficit spending and debt. Find the exact quote and the reference for it if you use it. I don’t know how long the paper is suposed to be but that is a very broad thesis statment.
agreed!
I heard Marvin Olasky talking about so called “compassionate conservatism” this morning on Bill Bennett’s program. He said something to the effect that we who have pets take care of them, feed them, let them lie around and let them be. That may be fine for animals, but people, because they are spiritual beings need to be treated differently. He suggests the need for deeper help, rather than a handout. I guess it is like the old adage “...give a man a fish and he will eat for a day but teach a man to fish and he will never go hungry”. We need to get to the person in need of help in a deep way that connects with the individual’s gifts, talents, and worth as a person. Just the free meal, handout, etc. will perpetuate the problem and does not recognize the spiritual worth of the individual. Oh and by the way, this cannot be done by a centralized government but at the most local level possible.
Government is not supposed to save us.
Government is supposed to protect our freedoms to save ourselves.
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