5 Reasons America Is In Decline

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

[ican'tbelieveit]

Unions (especially public employee unions)

I would put public schools, in their modern application, as #1. The effects of indoctrination by the public schools for the last 50 years is overwhelming our nation.

[GBA]

The signs are everywhere you look. The popularity of shows like Pawn Stars, Auction Hunters and American Restoration are examples.

Very enjoyable programs, but on another level they are showing us something about where we are and where we are headed.

It's like every alarm clock has gone off at the same time screaming WAKE UP!!!

[avenir]

Not faulting Samuel Adams, but the idea of a “virtuous people” is ignorant of God. Moralism is an enemy of Christ, suggesting one can be “good” apart from entering through the narrow Gate. We know that few enter there, so I believe times of supposedly virtuous people are actually the work of the Holy Spirit’s restraining power, sheer grace from God in not giving us over.

One can blame the Christian Church all they want, but at the end of time she’s going to roll out of that heavenly garage and every eye will see what God has been building in there! If they aren’t rolling out in glory it is because THEY refused Him.

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[GOPJ]

>...70 percent of inmates in state juvenile detention centers serving long-term sentences were raised by single mothers. Seventy-two percent of juvenile murderers and 60 percent of rapists come from single-mother homes. Seventy percent of teenage births, dropouts, suicides, runaways, juvenile delinquents, and child murderers involve children raised by single mothers. Girls raised without fathers are more sexually promiscuous and more likely to end up divorced. A 1990 study by the Progressive Policy Institute showed that after controlling for single motherhood, the difference between black and white crime rates disappeared.

You're right - excellent...

[Carry_Okie]

Public Education
Marxist Media
Tax Exempt Foundations
Public Employee Unions
Sexual Licentiousness

[Buckeye McFrog]

6) Generations of dumbed-down public education, televised propaganda and class/race-based agitation have left us with a population largely too stupid to realize what is going on.

[TexasFreeper2009]

how about all those place buying you gold jewelry that are springing up everywhere?

You think it’s a coincidence that they are trying to buy the only thing you have of real value with worthless paper?

Like you said, the signs are everywhere.

[TexasRepublic]

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

So true. "God Bless America" is a vain, hollow wish if we don't seek after Him first. At the root of all our country's problems is a decline of Christian spirituality. I have lived long enough to see how it all fits together. The people will perish for a lack of knowledge.

[GBA]

“The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained.”
--George Washington, First Inaugural Address, April 30, 1789

The Blessing stopped on 9/11 and if we are honest with ourselves, we know why.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Vlad I of Transylvania seems to have had it right. He granted divorces, then immediately executed both spouses and their children.