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America's future: No longer worth celebrating
World Net Daily ^ | 7-20-12 | Tom Tancredo

Posted on 07/21/2012 3:48:50 PM PDT by ReformationFan

July 4th used to be my favorite holiday. Now, not so much. What happened?

Independence Day has always been a day to join friends and neighbors in the celebration of America’s greatness, its unparalleled achievements and its unbounded future. It was the one day it was cool to be a “super patriot,” and that was super cool.

We used to celebrate what President Reagan called, “that shining city on a hill.” America was a beacon of hope and bastion of freedom, an example to the world – a beacon and an example not because of special history but because of a special country – and even more important, a special destiny.

But looking around me on July 4th in 2012, thinking about what America has become, I got the sickening feeling that Independence Day has changed because our country has changed.

We still celebrate our past, but we are no longer confident of our future. We are realizing that the America of 2012, the America Obama and 50 years of progressivism have given us, has a very problematic future. Is this new “transformed” America even worth celebrating? •For the first time in history, our sovereign debt has been downgraded.

•Canada, not the United States, is now the most prosperous nation on earth, with average household net worth surpassing ours by $43,000, or about 13 percent. •The number of people on food stamps has grown 50 percent in less than four years. •The racial divide is larger than ever as “progressive” candidates increasingly play the “race card” to silence debate. •Faith in government institutions is at an all-time low as dependence on government grows. •Almost 50 percent of adults now pay no income taxes as Congress prepares to enact the largest tax increase in history on middle-class Americans and small business.

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: america; future; pityparty; tancredo; tomtancredo; whiner
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To: ReformationFan

Tancredo was one of the good guys. Wish there were more like him.


21 posted on 07/21/2012 6:40:54 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: varon
We have become a nation of non-Americans. Populated with people that have no historic, emotional, language, ancestral or cultural ties to 4th of July, just a place to get government cheese!!!

I'm afraid that your post has the ring of truth. The liberals long ago stopped the in-depth teaching of American history in our schools and that turned the tide. Sadly, so many people have no sense of what it means to be an American.

FWIW, I have been conducting a little survey amongst bank tellers and store cashiers. I would say that fewer than five percent recognize the face on the $10 bill, and when told who it is, all I get a blank look. That tells me all I need to know about education levels in the USA.

22 posted on 07/21/2012 7:02:49 PM PDT by OldPossum ( "it's" is the contraction of either "it is" or "it has"; "its" is the possessive pronoun)
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To: basil
I couldn’t bring myself to put up our outdoor decorations this year............

Sadly, neither could I.

I put them up for Memorial Day and took them down that evening.

23 posted on 07/21/2012 8:20:47 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (Democrats...the party of Slavery, Segregation, Sodomy, and Sedition)
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To: madprof98
"I’m afraid the people want what they are getting right now. In fact, I expect they will vote for some more of it."

Well, they can't miss with their vote. Either candidate and Congress will continue to give those "people" big spending and license for their political/regulator class despotism.

We become more self-sufficient, tough and skilled while allowing the bipartisan socialists to run amok in politics. Tomorrow belongs to us.


24 posted on 07/21/2012 8:23:01 PM PDT by familyop ("Wanna cigarette? You're never too young to start." --Deacon, "Waterworld")
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To: ReformationFan

Screw that. America is the greatest country ever, and will continue to be so. We just need to fight to get it back.


25 posted on 07/21/2012 8:27:21 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: ReformationFan

We went through the same thing in the 1930’s.

No one remembers FDR putting laundromat owners in jail because they didn’t charge enough for cleaning shirts?


26 posted on 07/21/2012 8:35:07 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: ReformationFan

Someone call the waaaahmbulance! And this guy is looked at as a leader of the conservative movement? Now that IS a discouraging thought.

I guess it never occurred to Rep Tancredo to stop looking at the future of all the American states as being the same and as part of the same political construct. I see a future where some, most, or all of our grandkids celebrate 2 independence days. To sit around and mope about the sorry state of parts of our culture is counterproductive and maudlin. I guess if you live in some socialist utopia like new jersey there isn’t much to be happy about. But it also begs the question of why oh why are you still there?

We already have the shining city on the hill within our grasp. And we need some leaders who get that rather than stand around mourning.


27 posted on 07/21/2012 8:45:48 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat ( We're all Texians now.)
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To: ReformationFan

Attention all wimps, fat-ass losers, surrender monkeys and French white flag wavers, send me your address so we can send a team around to collect your weapons and ammo.


28 posted on 07/21/2012 8:53:42 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Public unions exist to protect the unions from the taxpaying public)
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To: ReformationFan

We had grown fat and lazy in the “old America”. The tough times ahead are going to bring out the best of us - although at the cost of much pain. I say “bring it on” ... I miss the days when Americans had “The Right Stuff”, and that was in very short supply long before Obama.


29 posted on 07/21/2012 9:01:22 PM PDT by The Duke
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To: varon
We are America in name only. We have become a nation of non-Americans. Populated with people that have no historic, emotional, language, ancestral or cultural ties to 4th of July, just a place to get government cheese!!!

The melting pot has become a cesspool

30 posted on 07/21/2012 9:22:54 PM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: varon
We are America in name only. We have become a nation of non-Americans. Populated with people that have no historic, emotional, language, ancestral or cultural ties to 4th of July, just a place to get government cheese!!!

The melting pot has become a cesspool

31 posted on 07/21/2012 9:24:48 PM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: paul51

Well people, I for one am NOT CONVINCED that America’s greatness is over. If WE let ourselves believe it is lost then we get what we deserve. We all remember the Clinton’s way was to keep throwing everything at the wall and sooner or later, something would stick. Keep telling yourself that we are “doomed”, and eventually you will believe it. I DO NOT believe or subscribe to it. America didn’t become great without trying and it can/will become great once more PROVIDING we all keep fighting.


32 posted on 07/22/2012 9:05:18 AM PDT by DaveA37
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