Posted on 06/29/2013 5:31:55 AM PDT by Kaslin
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. -- Ronald Reagan
Those who attack American culture and tradition should recall that historically, freedom and prosperity are the aberrations, not servitude and poverty. Our nation's success is not a happy accident or part of a natural, unstoppable progression that can't be changed. Nothing could be more foolish than to abandon the traditions, religion, work ethic, family structure, moral code and culture that made this country wealthy and free while expecting to continue to reap the rewards of practices we now scorn as too demanding and judgmental. What we sow as a nation, we should expect to reap and the crop these days isn't looking very good.
1) The CBO estimates that the interest payments on our debt alone will take up 36% of the budget in 2030, 58 percent in 2040 and 85 percent in 2050.
2) Fears that America would go bankrupt in the next few years used to be a fringe belief. Now, Doomsday Preppers is a TV show, gold, guns and survival seeds are being widely advertised and vast numbers of Americans are making decisions about purchases, investments, and saving money that take into account the possibility that the country could bankrupt within the next decade or two.
3) "Half of all children born to women under 30 in America now are illegitimate. Three in 10 white children are born out of wedlock, as are 53 percent of Hispanic babies and 73 percent of black babies." -- Pat Buchanan
4) "The IMF calculates that to maintain the present spending trend the United States will have to nearly double (88 percent increase) all federal taxes to maintain theoretical solvency." -- Kevin Williamson
5) In 1963, a movie that wanted to get the approval of the Production Code of the Motion Picture Association of America "could not include any profanity stronger than hell or damn," couldn't take the Lord's name in vain, and "couldn’t present sex outside of marriage as attractive or justified." Today, even many video games targeted at teenagers don't meet those standards.
6) "Fewer Americans are at work today than in April 2000, even though the population since then has grown by 31 million." -- Mortimer Zuckerman
7) The U.S. put a man on the moon in 1969; yet we no longer even have a manned space program.
8) Like the Roman Empire in the decades before her collapse, America is unable to control its borders or properly assimilate vast numbers of people entering our country.
9) In 2005, roughly 10% of our Gross Domestic Product was spent on compliance with regulations created by the federal government.
10) America lost its AAA credit rating that it has held since 1917 and no one is even discussing how we could get it back.
11) Economic growth for the middle class has essentially been flat since the 1970s.
12) Forty seven percent of Americans don't pay income tax. That means not only are the poor not paying their own way, a significant number of Americans in the middle class aren't being asked to pay in taxes what they receive in government services.
13) There is a 100 trillion -- with a "T" -- gap between what our government is currently promising to pay to retiring senior citizens and the money it's on track to have. Just to give you a little perspective, our current national debt is approaching 17 trillion dollars.
14) Only about 30% of Americans think the country is on the right track.
15) Only about 15% of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing. The British undoubtedly would have had better poll numbers than that before our ancestors revolted against them.
16) "In the fifties, one in twenty members of the workforce needed government permission in order to do his job. Today it’s one in three."
17) "In 1950, 78% of households were occupied by married couples. Today, that number has slipped all the way down to 48%."
18) "Consider this: the U.S. economy has created 2.6 million jobs since June 2009. In the same period, 3.1 million workers have signed up for disability benefits. Back in 1992 there was one person on disability benefits for every 36 people in employment. Now the ratio is 1 to 16." -- Niall Ferguson
19) Gun sales hit record highs in 2012. That's partially because of fears of gun control, but it's also because of a growing fear that a breakdown in societal order is coming down the road.
20) "John Kichen of the U.S. Treasury and Menzie Chinn of the University of Wisconsin published a study in 2010 entitled: Financing U.S. Debt: Is There Enough Money in the World — and At What Cost? The fact that sane men are even asking this question ought to be deeply disturbing. As to the answer, foreign official holdings of U.S. Treasury securities have usually been less than 5 percent of the rest of the world’s GDP. By 2009, they were up to 7 percent. By 2020, Kitchen and Chinn project them to rise to 19 percent of the rest of the world’s GDP, which they say is….do-able. Whether the rest of the world will want to do it is another matter. A future that presumes the rest of the planet will sink a fifth of its GDP into U.S. Treasuries is no future at all." -- Mark Steyn
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“7) The U.S. put a man on the moon in 1969; yet we no longer even have a manned space program.”
I take that as a sign of the decline of mankind.
Really? Of all those problems, I see no space program as the LEAST of all concerns.
(Unless of course, you see living in space someday soon as a viable alternative to living in what this country is becoming.)
6) “Fewer Americans are at work today than in April 2000, even though the population since then has grown by 31 million.”
stupid liberals may you all loser your job and home to 3rd world immigrants your democrat senators in Congress imported. all democrats in congress voted for the Amnesty bill
6) “Fewer Americans are at work today than in April 2000, even though the population since then has grown by 31 million.”
stupid liberals may you all lose your job and home to 3rd world immigrants your democrat senators in Congress imported. all democrats in congress voted for the Amnesty bill
Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again. Ronald Reagan
Liberals responding to the progressive agenda of a more socialist America believe that they could retrieve the liberties they exchanged for security if socialism is not what they expected.
Would an informed populace think that?
I’d say the article covered about everything, except for the legal sanctions for sexual degeneracy this week. All great nations collapse eventually- we are just on a more rapid pace than some.
There’s 55 MILLION reasons why America is over....DEAD BABIES and WOMEN SCREAMING and VOTING to KILL MORE!!
In addition....Austin, TX is in a severe water crisis, yet, they are one in 17 cities in the USA that invite illegals to their community openly. Their budgets for city services and schools are a burden to taxpayers, mainly due to the illegals working for the libs for cheap and then using the free services offered.
Send 22 million illegals home and we’d have much more water and thinner budgets. Allow REAL immigration by strict quotos like we used to and limit family to say 3. Make English the national language so we do not have to interpret voting and other legal proceedings in 20 or more languages so everyone can understand how to vote “D”!!!
Actually, since these stats will never go into People magazine and Entertainment Shows, people will be stunned when their life changes drastically cause the $$ run out.
There are so many things wrong with government on so many levels and no one wants to lead them out of it. Hence, Obama and liberals in office to give away allowances to those who want to do their own thing,which is nothing!
Shouldn't that say will never know it again? I can't believe that Ronald Reagan used such bad grammar and here is a link to his quotes, (5 pages) and the quote is not in there
I’m betting there are more than 20.
Nearly all of the K-12 teachers in the U.S. ( both government and private schools) were trained by MARXISTS!!!!!!
The majority of voters now, and nearly all of the next generations of voters, were taught and are being taught by teachers that were trained by COMMUNISTS! in the MARXIST dominated colleges of education!!
( Yuri Besmenov was a prophet.)
I doubt that God will intervene to save this nation. Why?
1) Abortion!
Millions can show up to buy a chicken sandwich but can’t figure out how to end abortion. Really?
2) Christians and conservatives send their children into GODLESS secular schools to be indoctrinated daily by teachers trained by godless MARXISTS. When in these indoctrination centers the children WILL learn to think and reason godlessly. They must just to cooperate in the classroom.
In the first case the bodies of children are murdered. In the second case it is the soul that is attacked. 85% of children from highly active evangelical homes fail to be active in their faith 2 years after graduated from government high school. In contrast, 95% of homeschoolers are active.
I’ll give you one sign ... THE sign ....
The Patriot Act.
“7) The U.S. put a man on the moon in 1969; yet we no longer even have a manned space program. “
Maybe this was trying to convey that the US doesn’t currently have way to get astronauts into space.
We currently have astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS), living and working in space. So technically, we do have a manned space program...just not a rocket to sustain it...we are at the mercy of another country.
Although my initial reaction to the decline in the manned space program was one of little concern, it then occurred to me that the NASA programs from Mercury through the Space Shuttle were not only important sources of technological innovation but also played a historic role in America’s defense. The programs produced advances in electronic, computer technology, and other technologies that are profound. The programs were born out of military technology and personnel and sent messages to our friends and enemies around the world that the U.S. was the leader in technology and power. The U.S. showed it could catch up to the USSR’s space lead in the late 50’s, a lead built on captured and copied technology, and race beyond to take the lead and leave all others far behind. The U.S.’s technological lead and economic power was instrumental in the collapse of the USSR.
In 1965, our young people went to college and became a leading technological workforce, confident in their understanding of science and math and thriving in a competitive culture.
In 2013, our young people reach college age knowing they “can’t do math”—wallowing in a culture of baby birds whose genitalia and skin color are the foundations for decision making.
Although it is debatable whether the expenditures for the space programs were an appropriate use of taxpayers’ money, it is clear that many of today’s expenditures of taxpayers’ money by the government are not only undesirable but destructive. Will Americans in a few years’ time think it is worthwhile to work 80+ percent of the time only to pay off the debts of the spendthrift government or will they simply refuse to pay and let the value of the currency decline precipitously? Will the result be any different either way? I can look to many countries around the world and see the answer. In those countries, the citizens want to leave to come to the U.S. When they arrive, instead of teaching them in the ways of freedom and prosperity, we encourage them to join the baby birds. We even give preference to those who are least able to understand prosperity and are most certain to be baby birds.
Yup. A Carte Blanche to usurp the Constitution and take away the very liberties it purportedly serves to protect. A more cynically titled act of law could not have been more imagined.
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