Posted on 06/25/2023 5:56:09 AM PDT by george76
I can’t be the only one wondering what has happened to us.
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Here are just a few ways our current system exploits us and, in the process, continues to destroy our societal fabric and morality:
Higher education is incredibly expensive. “Financial aid” allows people to take out loans they could not otherwise carry, breeding fiscal irresponsibility and disregard — 60% of students taking out loans they may never be able to repay. It lowers academic and intellectual standards and saturates the market with college graduates; when schools can get just about any price for tuition because the federal government is paying, “everyone” gets accepted, and rates go through the roof. Did you know that only 41% of students graduate within four years? Students want loan “forgiveness” or refunds, or they simply default, believing educational and opportunity promises made were unfulfilled; this is how we train people to think they are owed something for nothing.
Taxes. The majority of us, the middle-incomers, pay less than a third of the income tax revenue. The top 20% pay over two-thirds, and the bottom 20% pay less than 2%. Yet, we constantly hear how the rich don’t pay their “fair share.” How much should they pay? 75%? 100%?
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An activist-entrenched bureaucracy is perhaps our most dangerous adversary. Treachery on all fronts
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Discredited institutions. Something fundamental has been lost for us all, and that is too many people have lost faith in our system. Many election officials are openly partisan with little to no interest in open, free, and fair elections. According to the Census Bureau regarding the 2020 presidential election, “Many voters used alternative voting methods, and there was a large shift to early voting and voting by mail.” Voting by mail is an invitation to fraud and disproportionately benefits Democrats.
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It was a planned and well executed operation. That plan was read into the Congressional Record in 1980 by a KGB defector. The warning was ignored by all. All 45 goals have been obtained, and our Republic is toast.
It isn't going to be pretty. (i.e. "voting harder" isn't going to get different results)
“An activist-entrenched bureaucracy is perhaps our most dangerous adversary.”
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The bigger the government gets the smaller the people become.
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Didn't happen in Rome. We have our own versions of 'bread and circuses' today.
An election won’t fix it. Jefferson: People get the government they deserve. I’ll vote but will everyone else do so with their eyes open?
All 45 goals have been obtained, and our Republic is toast.
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History shows that reversing cultural rot is darn near impossible to do, save for the onset of some type of cataclysmic event that reorients everyone’s world view.
An election won’t fix it.
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I agree, especially if its the Republican Party that “wins”. They are worthless appeasers.
Fundamentally, its the corrosive culture that needs to be fixed, and that’s very unlikely to happen.
So long as the electricity flows....
Yep. I don't see any way out of what's coming.
I have been thinking a lot about “credit” and “loans”. I have kiddos 5 and 6 in college, 1-4 are out with bachelor’s degrees and jobs, with zero loan debt.
Perhaps this was unwise. I’m sure all student loan debt will be forgiven the day after I write the last check.
But that’s not the point.
The kids in college are simple. Kids 3&4, newly employed, are deluged with credit offers: “See how rich you really are”, “Find out how much you can afford”, “check your credit score and get hourly alerts with our app”, etc, etc.
This is sick. Really, deeply sick.
And it’s driven by people making lots and lots of money, at least on paper, even though each individual’s debt behavior only contributes pennies a day to their revenue stream - because there are millions of debt slaves, and wise gentlemen are well aware that most debt is never going to be paid off.
Now, before you answer, “I don’t have any debt, stupid should hurt” (the standard FR debt catechism), consider what this debt slavery is doing to society in general, and what sort of living conditions your children are going to face.
There is a reason Biblical cultures and others practiced routine debt forgiveess.
While the behavior of individuals is unpredictable (I didn’t allow student loans, for example), the behavior of people in the aggregate is absolutely predictable, and what will happen, is happening, is that the power of debtors (90% of the population) will approach zero while the power of the “donor community” will approach 100.
We already live, in part, under the rule of the “donor community” in the US, and most of the “stupid should hurt” crowd don’t like it very much.
The rise of the demonic forces tormenting us today is fueled by a legal structure which gave them the power of money creation, which entails burdening society with debts which (collectively) cannot be repaid while allowing their power to increase every time someone uses a credit card to buy a Big Mac.
Something to think about.
That IS the cycle, and the place.
The romans couldn’t even imagine our modern version of bread and circuses. Imagine trying to explain to someone back then that the poorest people could be the most likely to be obese.
Freegards
Bkmk
Well, now that IS a point to ponder.
You can add one more: the age of insanity.
Also, circuses 24X7.
I’ve got to admit that over the last 50 years, THE “UGLY AMERICAN” has become one hell of a lot UGLIER.
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