Posted on 07/07/2015 5:18:21 AM PDT by huldah1776
LANCASTER, Pa. -- America just marked its 239th Independence Day, the birth of what many consider the greatest nation on earth. But after all these years of celebrating, Americans may soon be mourning its downfall.
That's the conclusion of researcher George Barna and historian David Barton in their book U-Turn: Restoring America to the Strength of Its Roots.
***** Faith is losing its foothold in the land.
"The proportion of unchurched people has risen from 28 percent to 48 percent in six years," Barna shared. "The fastest growing faith group in America is atheists and agnostics."
(Excerpt) Read more at cbn.com ...
""Where we are right now, it will take 107 years of the full production of the American economy to pay off the debt we have right now," Barton said.
"We are at a point now where 60 percent of Americans receive more from the government than what they put in," he added. "You can't sustain that."
"We averaged spending $61,000 per poor family last year. You now find that those who are on welfare make more than teachers make in 11 states. And those on welfare now make more than secretaries do in 39 states. We can't sustain that," he reiterated.
Compare that to the attitude Thomas Jefferson expressed to young America.
Quoting the author of the Declaration of Independence, Barton said, "We can live in debt and extravagance, but we'll be in slavery -- or we can be free, but we have to use frugality.""
So let's do another study...Rate of inflation correlation to rate of faith in the Bible as the Word of God.
We have lost sight of one great truth. To have a real economy you have to make and sell things. People have to stop “taking” and start contributing.
Maybe our best bet is to become a colony of Greece.
And THAT ain’t sarcasm folks.
My prediction is 25 to 30 years of decline as a 50-state entity, followed by a breakup into at least four regions.
Sorry, but my definition of ‘family’ is Mom, Dad, and kids. In this case what they are talking about is unmarried women having kids as ‘profit centers’ to up their monthly take.
I've published this idea several times including links to the Heritage group that has gathered the actual facts - and the truth is this: while everyone goes on and on about Social Security, the actual cancer that is eating the country alive is welfare. It is the destroyer that will end every facet of life as we know it.
I can remember somebody here uploading a photo of Obama carrying a copy of a book titled “After America” or something to that effect (photo was taken about 2008 or so if I am not mistaken). Would be appropriate for this thread.
Though, true, is still with never end.
No matter that the whole process is blatantly unconstitutional, NO politician has the fortitude to even suggest winding it down...just look at the ca-ca storm W kicked up for SUGGESTING that one should be ‘allowed’ to invest their OWN $$, up to 2% (??) outside of Social Security.
Of course, anyone even bringing up the facts (skirting the whole Constitution to begin) that SS rate of return is near 0, there is NO ‘lock-box’, it is NOT something you can bequeath if you die ‘early’, etc. etc. are roundly rejected by both parties and ridiculed and hounded.
Yes, but there is nothing decent to replace it. All nations subscribe to managed trade and managed economies. So the whole world, is royally up the creek.
I remember that from a while back. On a tarmac, I think, or was it a golf course?
America is already there. The Constitution is titles and the Republic dead. Not everyone has realized it yet. It’s the dawn of the North American Union.
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