We chose not to defend the borders and allow millions of new workers into the country to take jobs from Americans.
We chose to eliminate tariffs and quotas on imported goods to force American labor to compete with slave wages abroad while our trading partners continued their mercantilist trade policies.
We allowed the “free” market to operate and move the US manufacturing sector abroad along with millions of middle class jobs.
We allowed our education system to become a propaganda organ instead of a tool to sustain an informed and technically proficient population.
We confused diversity and self esteem preservation with achievement and lowered our standards of achievement in almost every endeavor.
Our corporations allowed the financial manipulators to become CEO’s, pushing aside the people who understood product development, production and customer service. As a result foreign competition almost destroyed the auto and other industries.
We turned over our monetary system to a cartel of Wall Street bankers who have debased the currency and eroded 95% of its value over the past century.
We became obsessed with sex without responsibility or love, confusing art for pornography and deviancy for self expression. In doing so we turned our back on our cultural roots and our God.
We tolerate lies and deceit from our elected and appointed officials. Our public officials exhibit no shame in their public and private behavior but neither do we.
We wonder what has happened to our once great nation and the opportunities it once afforded those who would work to be the best they could be.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Your post is most distressing,and true.
We have destroyed ourselves.
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Post of the decade, bravo.
Outstanding post. I will reread it because your summation is on target. Thank-you for your astute insight that provides excellent contrast.