5 Reasons America Is In Decline

Townhall.com ^ | May 15, 2012 | John Hawkins

[BuffaloJack]

1 - Obama
2 - Pelosi
3 - Reid
4 - Biden
5 - Czars

[Kaslin]

You got it

[JudgemAll]

I am starting to believe that communists are a bunch of weaklings who are basing their ideology in racism but who make everyone believe they are the sole non racist group out there.

Thus they divided and dared tribes against each other and promoted a sort of passive aggressive surrenderist self hate to the other races. It’s not an upward competition to the best race, but a PC competition to the worst and weakest, with the sucker who does not take to it being the winner.

[kitkat]

KAZ, another excellent article. Thank you.

[TexasFreeper2009]

I would add :

Unions (especially public employee unions)

Liberals (socialists in disguise which destroy everything they touch everywhere)

Rabid Secularists determined to drive all religion from American (especially Christianity)

The “right” to vote. Voting should be a privilege that has to be earned. The lazy masses should never have been given the ability to vote themselves the treasury.

White/Western guilt that prevents us from doing what needs to be done and saying what needs to be said.

The Geneva Convention which prevents us from actually winning wars in a timely cost efficient manner with minimum loss of life on OUR side, while maximizing the death and destruction on their side.

bidding on public contracts which dramatically increases the cost and time it takes to complete anything the government tries to do over what the private sector would pay for the exact same (possible better) result.

open meeting laws which stifle governments ability to react in a timely manner at all levels and results in endless costly studies with little real action.

[Kaslin]

The left remind me of a criminal who accuses the victim of the crime he has done

[cripplecreek]

I’m glad to see the writer actually points to we the people as being at least partially to blame. As a society we’ve become incredibly gluttonous.

Its like no one was ever taught the meaning of the word “NO”.

I think of my great grandmother and her resistance to getting a microwave. She just didn’t see the point. As she said, “If I’m going to die in the 6 or 7 minutes it takes to fry an egg, saving 3 or 4 minutes won’t really matter.”

[Kaslin]

Thanks

[MrB]

If we didn’t have the wholesale moral decline in America,
your 5 wouldn’t be an issue.

[eyeamok]

“the idea that America could economically collapse because of a default on its debt seemed ludicrous, “

Sorry to say this, but there really is something terribly wrong with the folks over at Townhall lately, either it is being staffed by a bunch of very young children or very STUPID people. Anyone that ever managed to pass 3rd grade math has known that we were destined for a Monetary Collapse, Precisely because of the Federal Reserve System way of Creating Money out of debt. All PONZI Schemes FAIL once the people realize the scam. All Money is LOANED into Existence with interest, now the money is created by this new debt, but what about the Interest?? It is not CREATED and must be paid back by the BLOOD AND SWEAT OF LABOR. Thereby rendering us forever ENSLAVED in DEBT to THE BANKERS and the GOVERNMENT, for The DEBT CAN NEVER BE REPAYED IN FULL, let alone ever be PAID DOWN. That would be an Instant Depression, for NO CURRENCY would Exist were we to pay off our debt. ALL MONEY IS BORROWED INTO EXISTENCE.

[trebb]

1 - Democrats
2 - Liberal Democrats
3 - Progressive Democrats
4 - Socialist Democrats
5 - RINO Democrats

[Marathoner]

Voting should be a privilege that has to be earned. The lazy masses should never have been given the ability to vote themselves the treasury.

Amen to that! I used to scoff at those who would restrict voting to property owners, but anymore I certainly believe voting should be restricted to those who have "skin in the game" IE: taxpayers, not parasites.

[stars & stripes forever]

11 Reasons Why America Is in Declince

1) “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me.

2) “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My Commandments.

3) “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.

4) “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

5) “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

6) “You shall not murder.

7) “You shall not commit adultery.

8) “You shall not steal.

9) “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

10) “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”

11) Love your neighbor as yourself.

[SMARTY]

Communists took charge in Russia once they removed the Romanoff monarchy.

They imposed their system on a people who were largely backward, impoverished and illiterate serfs. The process had to leap-frog whole phases of social and cultural development, because literate populations in urban centers were not representative of the entire country.

In the US and in other developed nations, for Communism to succeed, they had/have first to convince a literate and largely affluent (by global standards/minorities included) population that they were/are shamefully and systematically exploited and cheated by a Capitalist establishment. Prosperous and thriving populations had/have to be forever ’re-educated’ to think of themselves as underserved and deliberately deprived.

“O’s” primary mission (and it’s the primary mission of ALL Liberals for decades) has been/is to carry on this ‘re-education’ and to reiterate this lie ad infinitum.

In increasingly prosperous and stable societies and in order to continue their ‘re-education’, new and I think cruder, lies must be invented… even if (as in America) Liberals have to re visit and resuscitate issues like racial inequity, which was well on the way to resolution….

All lies and all more obvious and ugly all the time.

[MrB]

When Jesus was asked “what is the greated commandment”, He replie “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind” (ie, a summary of the first 4 commandments),

and the second is like the first (your “11”), love your neighbor as yourself (a summary of the last 6).

[CharacterCounts]

5 Reasons America is in decline:

1. Passage of the 16th Amendment
2. Passage of the 17th Amendment
3. The successful attack on the family by the Warren Court.
4. The expansion of "tolerance"
5. The expansion of political correctness

Conservatives who think that the next President is going to make a bit of difference in any of the above, are deluding themselves. Neither have any interest in stopping the forward march.

Every one of the faults which conservatives find with government, including overspending, huge debt, harmful and overblown bureaucracy, and on and on, are all traceable to the 5 reasons listed here.

[stars & stripes forever]

When Jesus was asked “what is the greated commandment”, He replie “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind” (ie, a summary of the first 4 commandments),

and the second is like the first (your “11”), love your neighbor as yourself (a summary of the last 6).
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Thanks for the clarification. Now if we would obey the greatest commandment, God would pour out blessings from heaven that we cannot contain. 2 Chronicles 7:14

[MrB]

Indeed. “God Bless America” was true while we were a Christian nation, instead of a godless progressive nation.

[JudgemAll]

Indeed, in general, if race was not an issue, communists would still try to paint this guy blue and this other guy red, and then they would play the perceptions. It’s the antithesis to synthesis perception game. It’s completely insane, with some inkling of method pride, but overall completely ridiculous mean of attaining power, wanting to both roll the wheel and be the wheel at the same time.