[Joe 6-pack]

"America stopped growing in 1959."

A trifling point, but I'd call it 10 years later than that...

The left's de-construction and revision of history has been very deliberately conceived to disconnect us from what made us great. A nation need not expand its borders to continue to increase in "greatness" as long as that pioneer spirit is kept alive by inventors, scientists, technicians, and indeed artists, engineers and virtually all aspects of human endeavour. Once the pioneer spirit is killed however, stagnation can not be far behind.

[GonzoGOP]

I thought about the moon landing. However we were careful to claim the moon "For all mankind". We may have put up the American flag, but we didn't homestead.

In my grade school geography class we had a debate on what would be the 51st state. Some said Puerto Rico, some said a moon base, others said we would take over Canada. But nobody said that there wouldn't be one. It was just unthinkable that America would stop growing. Then Carter was elected and by the time he was done with us all we could hope for was to keep out the Russians, find a job and hold on to what we still had. It is amazing how much damage can be done in only four years. My children, about the same age as I was then, must now unfortunately learn the same lesson I did.

[TexasRepublic]

I have long considered the late 60’s as our nation’s highpoint. When the moon landings were cancelled, I sensed that something was wrong. The oil crisis in 1973 convinced me then that we had peaked.