Posted on 02/09/2013 5:08:55 AM PST by Kaslin
Good list. I weep for my country.
there’s really only one.....government
Sums up the issues nicely - and again, reminds me that we, as a nation, should be be having this discussion...but alas we are...
Corporations can't abuse the people - but the government can if it has enough money to purchase the requisite force. Corporations then hire the government to do their dirty work and lard out favors.
Term limits will just lead to life-long bureaucrats instead of life-long politicians. You ever try to fire a teacher?
Bump
Maybe, but one has to start somewhere. At least we would have the ability to have someone new making decisions about the budget that pays the salaries of those bureaucrats.
Dr. Spock. (Not Mr. Spock) One reason we are where we are.
And admittedly, we children of the 60’s(baby boomers) carry a lot of the blame. Some of us went “right”, others went WAY left and look what we have in charge now. Some realized it sooner than others what we had done(collectively)and some still haven’t seen it. When there were slaves on plantations they were dependent on the owners for everything. Now a lot of people are totally dependent on the govt so I get the plantation analogy some use. But even then, there were still those that desired independence and freedom.
Molon labe.
1) Starting in the sixties there was an explosion of children born out-of-wedlock and kids who don’t grow up in two parent families fare more poorly percentage wise on just about any and every scale imaginable including substance abuse, teenage pregnancies, suicide rates, criminality and homelessness.
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This is #1 for a reason. This breakdown of the American family was planned and put into play by America’s worst president ever - Lyndon B. Johnson. His Great Society programs have destroyed the family and - as a result - destroyed America.
Why? Cause healthy strong families are anathema to leftist ideals and democrats depend on the welfare state created by this breakdown.
Very helpful list. (I question the accuracy of #13).
13) The differences between the Republican and Democratic Party has become so great that there is very little common ground anymore. Not only do both parties propose very different solutions to America’s problems, but both sides also see the other side’s solutions as taking the country in exactly the wrong direction.
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Ummm, What?
On a national level, I see very little difference between dems and repubs. It sickens me to watch idiots in both parties play acting at solving fiscal cliff and other economic problems.
So did I. See my post 12.
Point # 13, though, was actualy kinda contradicted by point #14 where he talks about how both parties have given up on the idea of spending less.
Articles like this make me so glad I’m old and had the privilege of growing up when the US was a true Republic.
The kids coming up today have no way of knowing what they missed.
IMHO, the US is just about to go past the tipping point. Some will contend we already have.
Seems to me that “loss of confidence in the institutions” is well justified, given the observations made about those institutions later in the list.
You can’t leave drug abuse out of the top 20 for becoming a nonfunctional society.
Unless you want to consider the goal of living in a garbage dump and prostituting your children for drugs as functional.
This sums it up very well,however,number 10 should be number 1. Our problems are not political they are moral and they started before the 60’s - but the wheels really did start falling off then. The moral rot leads to the rest of the decline. Our personal relationship with God, our churches next, both sides of the political divide are to blame. Like art reflects the culture, so does politics. Loss of our love and fear of God has brought us to this point. The increase in corruption, lawlessness and hatred show we are merely rebelling against Him and his moral standards. “See God we know better than you!” The solution is to return to him in repentance and humility but people just don’t want to hear it at all. If there is a chance for our nation the change must begin with the true Church - the real Christian. We are called to be salt and light and to lay it all down for our Savior. The church must lead the way and it will be costly - everything has to be on the table - your money, your life, everything. Short of that there is no hope. I can’t imagine what it would take to turn us around and bring us to our knees. Would a nuke strike, an invading army, a real financial collapse? What will it take America? I guess we’ll find out.
7) As choices have proliferated because of the Internet, TV, and our affluent culture, Americans have become more alien to each other and share less and less cultural experiences. Today, two Americans may live in the same small community without ever talking, watching the same TV shows, listening to the same radio programs, or getting news from the same sources.”
A biggie.
The 16th and 17th amendments ruined the Constitution and the republic.
There is something about running a column of only bad news that I find so wrong. And of course depressing.
Let’s say this list is true. I stopped reading it after #3, for reasons listed above. It is not heaven down here, but every person has the power to impact the world in his own small way. Are we all really victims? Can we do nothing beyond seeing all that is wrong? Is it really time to jump off the bridge? Or shall we just get to work, every one of us, and do something?
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