Posted on 02/26/2012 11:46:29 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Boy O Boy.
Ain't that something!
Agree except the fears cited at the beginning often are unfounded and are part of the problem.
Sad part of all of this is... the huge majority of Americans .. so long as they have their SmartPhones and other fun gadgetry.. simply don`t have the decomposition of this dying, once-great country on their radar screens.
Results from the absence of God and self-reliance, the presence of drugs, politics of envy and “if it feels good - do it”.
Well said. I am constantly reminded of that book “Amusing Ourselves to Death.” It’s literally true.
You mean as in nostalgia ain’t what it used to be? I agree. My dad has told me stories of growing up in rural Texas, and it wasn’t all sweetness and light. Bad people then and bad people now. I guess if I had to come up with a difference, it would be that people (kids included) back then were more savvy and better equipped to handle bad situations - and expected to have to handle things. The “authorities” were few and far between, so you were on your own.
Not sure I agree with some of the Author’s points. Even as a kid in the 60s, I remember my parents telling me not to talk to strangers. The sickos have always been with us. You can point to horrific acts of crime and perversion in any decade. I’m sure a lot of crimes were committed in the 18th and 19th centuries, but the perps never got caught.
I’ve seen it for quite a while, now.
Don’t forget the recent “Air Jordan” riots.
I would buy those shoes for a 1000% profit also..
Distrust, chaos and strife and 0bama’s plan.. Setting the stage for “CHANGE” to a National Socialist state. He’s almost there, now all he has to do is find a way to cancel the November election.
Bump
Our courts oppose the righteous, and justice is nowhere to be found. Truth stumbles in the streets, and honesty has been outlawed. Yes, truth is gone, and anyone who renounces evil is attacked.
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And....A usurper continues to occupy the Red House ( Oops! “White House”).
“If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?”
Dr. James White commented on our sick society via Youtube a few days ago...
“A People Who Call Evil Good, and Good Evil”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW81eEDsRfM
I’m not too impressed with this article. I will go after each line item:
1) Maybe crime is up in DC, but it is way, way, down in New York. Seems like more of a problem with political will than a degenerating society. Overall crime, I believe is also down in the US.
2) You can AND COULD always find crackpots if you look hard enough for them. The one difference in the past was that we did usually keep them locked up and out of sight.
3) TSA only exists due to Muslims blowing up the World Trade Center. If that crime didn’t happen, then no full-body scanners.
4) People take anti-depressants because it’s, essentially, a legal high. If they were around 100 years ago, people would have taken them back then. As it was, 100 years ago, Cocaine was legal, and people used it (and that is where Coke got its name).
5) The gang problem has grown, largely, due to Hispanic gangs. The problem is border enforcement and the unwillingness to send those people back. It has nothing to do with American culture.
6) Yes, it’s hard for kids to get jobs when they get worthless degrees. Perhaps if the government got out of the way of college education (i.e., dumping money into loans and grants), as things once were, this problem would largely go away. It also hasn’t helped to have no-fault divorce give women the right to walk away with a piggy bank. No man in his right mind would marry a girl with an American-mindset.
7) Criminals are getting meaner. No, criminals were ALWAYS MEAN, but the Internet lets us find out about it.
8) Thieves steal what has value to them. Right now, due to the fact that China (and India) are growing like mad, copper is worth a lot of money due to demand competition. If plumbing were made of gold 100 years ago, I challenge anyone to say that their homes would have been safe from strippers back then.
9) Cities decline when they don’t serve a purpose anymore. The UAW drove automobile production out of the United States, and Detroit (and similar cities) pay for that. Expecting things to not change is unreasonable. The large cities in Texas (and the rest of the South) were much, much, smaller when Detroit was big. So could we say that things got better, or at least broke even, in the past 60 years?
10) The specific example of cities going broke has more to do with bankers being unregulated, which should NEVER be allowed to happen (hence the real estate crash), than with any overall decline of the quality of America. The cities did what they always did, they spent the money they collected in taxes and didn’t save up for a bad day. No different than what happened in the Great Depression.
Have a nice day.
Conservatism is growing every year(more people proclaim themselves as conservatives).
Teenage pregnancies are dropping to 1970's lows, kids in HS are having less sex also going back to 1970's levels, violent crime is way down per capita.
24/7 news media and the internet push the most salacious stories for their daily piece of the 15 minute fame pie.
Lots of great people out there in the good old US of A. Most young kids are decent people.
Especially from a blog pimping economic collapse for monetary gain. Have not gone to the site but I bet they are pushing gold and crisis garden seeds.
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