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15 March 2011 | US Navy Vet

Posted on 03/15/2011 7:29:33 AM PDT by US Navy Vet

What does anyone/everyone think was the genesis of the "Decline" of the Republic in the Americas known as the "United States"?


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To: US Navy Vet

Woodrow Wilson tested the water, but it was FDR’s new deal and Social Security that really did US in.


21 posted on 03/15/2011 7:55:23 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: Mustard Plaster

I agree. When it peaked in the colleges and PC became the norm, soon spreading via the teacher’s unions to our entire public school system. Now people like van jones (ohbama’s recent green czar, oh puke) hold seminars to teach kids how to fight back against the police and gay groups teach children how to ‘fist’ with full approval of the sick teacher’s unions.


22 posted on 03/15/2011 7:55:57 AM PDT by Republic (The entire White House presidential team needs to grow up and face facts!)
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To: US Navy Vet

Whaaat? He was the greatest of our founders.


23 posted on 03/15/2011 8:05:52 AM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: US Navy Vet
We went broke maintaining a welfare/warfare state.

The American taxpayer was saddled with the socialist programs of the 1930s, combined with the burden of policing up the planet after WWII during the Cold War.

24 posted on 03/15/2011 8:08:06 AM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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To: gr8eman

The commies controlled our schools way before that. I agree with the pister who said fdr.


25 posted on 03/15/2011 8:08:06 AM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: mad_as_he$$

I agree that that was a mistake.


26 posted on 03/15/2011 8:09:46 AM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: US Navy Vet

Banning the 5 gallon flush toilet.


27 posted on 03/15/2011 8:17:22 AM PDT by sergeantdave (The democrat party is a seditious organization and must be outlawed)
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To: US Navy Vet

There’s this dog at the dog park I’ve come to find out is not named Bird (figured it was some breed used for bird hunting). I’m told the dog is named Burr, because he shot Hamilton. That makes a lot more sense.


28 posted on 03/15/2011 8:19:10 AM PDT by Darth Reardon (No offense to drunken sailors)
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To: US Navy Vet

Removal of God from the school systems.


29 posted on 03/15/2011 8:19:21 AM PDT by KYGrandma (The sun shines bright on my old Kentucky home......)
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To: paul51

Slavery was at the top of my list as well.


30 posted on 03/15/2011 8:19:44 AM PDT by Captain PJ
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To: Constitutionalist Conservative

“The Civil War permanently inverted the relationship between the central government and the states.”

Bingo.


31 posted on 03/15/2011 8:24:24 AM PDT by mad puppy (Obama Care is a 'Giffen Good'.)
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To: US Navy Vet

1. Surrender of Lee at Appomatox.

2. New Deal.

3. Great Society.


32 posted on 03/15/2011 8:32:09 AM PDT by golux
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To: US Navy Vet

Pride. . . And MTV


33 posted on 03/15/2011 8:33:21 AM PDT by Dogbert41 (Sorry for typos: typed with IPhone)
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To: US Navy Vet

Marbury v Madison case - the court arrogated to itself the power to decide political questions under the guise of law.

While the decision may have been necessary, it has become the only branch of government that can through out the acts of the other two branches of government.

This concept can and has been abused, and while the Court could be the last bastion of freedom, it may also now be used to destroy that freedom.

Otherwise, I believe the real turning point came when the banking system was created, since money rules all, and in the nation, only a few unregulated individuals rule the money. Don’t know when that was, but suspect in early part of the 20th century, possibly prior to WWI.

The civil war determined that states are not autonomous except in unimportant things, and that the Feds will find a way to force compliance on a nationwide basis. This was also a turning point.


34 posted on 03/15/2011 8:43:28 AM PDT by LachlanMinnesota (Which are you? A producer, a looter, or a moocher of wealth?)
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To: US Navy Vet

the election of Woodrow Wilson, the passage of the 16th Amendment, and the dawn of the Progressive Era


35 posted on 03/15/2011 8:59:09 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Theodore Roosevelt(WHAT a FIRST CLASS A$$H*LE!) started the “Progressive Era”.


36 posted on 03/15/2011 9:02:59 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
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To: US Navy Vet
The reason for, and subsequent put down of, The Whiskey Rebellion.
37 posted on 03/15/2011 9:23:10 AM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: US Navy Vet

Sixteenth Amendment.

It allowed government to become a cancer feeding on the productivity of the people and turned us all into livestock on a tax farm.


38 posted on 03/15/2011 9:30:40 AM PDT by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: US Navy Vet


Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974
39 posted on 03/15/2011 9:34:14 AM PDT by papasmurf (War is hell, but not the worst hell. Having a PRES__ENT comes close!)
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To: papasmurf

What is the “Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974” please explain?


40 posted on 03/15/2011 9:39:34 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
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