Posted on 03/13/2014 11:36:48 AM PDT by Starman417
America’s consciousness has shifted. We live in a predominantly unstable and unpredictable world, a situation long accepted as the norm, however, we also live during the first period of history in which America's prominence in the world and its own vision and notion of itself, has been blurred. A majority of Americans have adopted self doubt and the confidence America has held through much of its story has been dissipated.
Through the fog of apprehension Americans plucked an unknown to take the helm of their governance. The fog did not lift, and in fact with the unknown’s propagation of envy, the opacity and anxiety intensified and the unknown was reelected.
Unease and apprehension rarely if ever translate into positive decisions. For the Nation, this retrenchment of confidence will not lead to growth where it is most necessary and where it would be most felt — in that parat of the population not employed by government and not part of the economic 1%ers.
America was not built on coveting the neighbour’s wealth nor on wealth seizure and redistribution. America was built by the work of many, and it flourished majestically on the grand ideas and on the creativity of a few. Those few were all those creative minds who advanced innovation in their businesses. Those few have been our entrepreneurs who enabled breakthroughs in all areas of human endeavour, lifting the whole to ever greater levels in quality of life.
The self hatred of socialism, that deplorable consequence and tendency of a lazy mind, condemns the independence of thought and heart. It condemns entrepreneurialism and reviles it as a blight on society along with capitalism. As this pernicious socialism creeps toward communism, it imposes stifling taxes and regulations on the very engines which prosperity depends on. We currently have schismatic leadership which has followed the socialist playbook for five years, in attempt to build a society controlled by a self serving political elite.
The disintegration of the single greatest human experiment is accelerated by a complicit mainstream media, unable to find common sense as it drowns in the debris of stupor oiled with the insanity which comes when you believe in your own intellectually superiority. With few exceptions, the liberal media covers for an out-of-control Administration, and lies about the economic conditions of a Nation struggling with stratospheric levels of public and private indebtedness. But don’t stress about your monthly debt payments, after all, statistics indicate that collectively we hold many times more in asset values than the size of our personal debt, so just keep working those two jobs and you’ll survive, . . . OK, three jobs. And when interest rates rise, well, . . . nevermind, you’ll figure it out, really, don’t worry.
Economic literacy is not a prerequisite to grasping the obvious financial realities flooding the neighbourhoods across the Nation. That the Federal Reserve has played a major role in the disintegration of the dollar, in the indebtedness of all Americans and in the disintegration of ‘savings’ is not a secret, and yet the Nation is numbed. The Nation is accepting of an invisible, all-wise, and all-knowing group placing it in a permanent vat of destructive debt, washing an unwilling economy with hundreds of billions of cash it cannot and will not use.
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The Time Period btwn 1880-1930 shoved a knife through the Heart of The United States and we have been bleeding out every since.
America came of age during the decline of empires and imperialism. America’s foray into the big leagues, the Panama Canal, the war with Spain, the Philippine conquest was brief and probably unavoidable. But we were the least harmful of the empires and the briefest. Is that what you’re referencing? I really thought our decline started with LBJ and The Great Society, the decline of black culture and Viet Nam. It has been greatly exacerbated by our current president and the descent of the Democratic party into communism.
See “The Progressive Era”. Teddy R/Woodrow W/Hoover, These “Men” Starting shoving the knife in.
Agreed. And the knife through our heart was primarily granting women the right to vote during that timeframe.
Woman have a need for safety/security and gravitate toward feminist concepts like socialism. And sure enough, just a few short years after women were granted the franchise, FDR was elected. And his socialism was the beginning of the end. It was followed by LBJ’s socialism and on down the line to BHO’s socialism, which knows no bounds.
Economic literacy is not a prerequisite to grasping the obvious financial realities flooding the neighbourhoods across the Nation. That the Federal Reserve has played a major role in the disintegration of the dollar, in the indebtedness of all Americans and in the disintegration of ‘savings’ is not a secret, and yet the Nation is numbed. The Nation is accepting of an invisible, all-wise, and all-knowing group placing it in a permanent vat of destructive debt, washing an unwilling economy with hundreds of billions of cash it cannot and will not use.
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Agreed with the analysis until this point.
The fracking revolution is literally shifting monetary flows around the world just like the first OPEC oil embargo of 1973 did in the other direction. Americans on the coasts are not feeling it but in middle section of the country the fracking revolution is in boom times in a half dozen states and sending immense amounts of money to local state and federal coffers. The numbers are going to rise significantly.
So while the social fabric of the USA is coming unglued the economic trends counted in years and decades have recently shifted back in favor of the USA—but it will take time before everyone notices—just as was the case after 1973—when economic trends shifted away from the USA.
Simple Terms:
1. Those that were born before The Fall of The Berlin Wall know full well what America stood for, and what The Cold War, and Communism was all about.
2. Those born after The Fall of The Berlin Wall, grew up in a time that allowed the America-haters to come forward, unabashed and unafraid of reprisal from fellow Americans, because of their protected ‘rights’ (that were not), and ‘feelings’ (get in touch with your inner whatever) were/are championed by news outlets that believe that THEY can sway the mood of the land, and Americans have let them!
This paper examines the growth of government during this century as a result of giving women the right to vote. Using cross-sectional time-series data for 1870 to 1940, we examine state government expenditures and revenue as well as voting by U.S. House and Senate state delegations and the passage of a wide range of different state laws. Suffrage coincided with immediate increases in state government expenditures and revenue and more liberal voting patterns for federal representatives, and these effects continued growing over time as more women took advantage of the franchise. Contrary to many recent suggestions, the gender gap is not something that has arisen since the 1970s, and it helps explain why American government started growing when it did.
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