Can You Imagine What This Nation Will Look Like In Another 50 Years?

toogoodreports.com ^ | February 6, 2002 | Chuck Baldwin

[tberry]

Can You Imagine What This Nation Will Look Like In Another 50 Years?

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We hear much today about the American dream. By "the American dream" most people mean buying a big house, driving an expensive automobile, or accomplishing some great feat. However, this was not the dream envisioned by the Founding Fathers. Remember that, for the most part, America's founders gave up their material wealth and substance for something they considered of far greater worth. This hedonistic generation knows little of the kind of sacrificial spirit personified in the lives of America's patriarchs.

In the minds of the founders, liberty, with all of its intrinsic risks, was more desirable than material prosperity if accompanied with despotism or collectivism. So strong was their desire that they were willing to give up the latter in order to procure the former for themselves and their posterity.

How dare Americans today refer to material gain as "the American dream!" It is not! It is the freedom to honestly pursue one's goals that should be celebrated. Material gain is only a fruit of freedom, not its root.

Furthermore, much of America's gain today is predicated upon dishonorable and even dishonest practices. We have become a nation of gamblers and socialists. We allow an unconstitutional tax system to tax our brains out. Rather than cast off a tyrannical tax system, however, we choose to cast away the noble virtue of industry and hard work (because government will wind up with most of it, anyway) in favor of receiving revenue from the labor and effort of others. It is called socialism, and most Americans today (including Christians) appear to fully embrace it.

We expect government to fund our retirement, to reimburse our losses, and to even pay for our health care. What we cannot get from Uncle Sam, we expect from Lady Luck. Americans today want the fruit of freedom but seem unwilling to pay its purchase price. It was not always this way, however.

Can you imagine a nation without an I.R.S.? Can you imagine a nation with little crime and where children were free to pray in schools? Can you imagine a nation where the father's income was able to adequately provide for his household? Can you imagine a country with low divorce rates and where virtually everyone with a high school diploma could both read and write and was capable of earning his or her way in society? Can you imagine a nation without an A.C.L.U. or a N.E.A.? Can you imagine a country that did not legally murder its own unborn children and that would not pander to sexual deviants and criminals? Can you imagine a country without legalized gambling? Can you imagine a nation with strong state governments and an unobtrusive federal government?

Can you imagine a country where you could order a firearm through a catalog and where there was no such thing as a B.A.T.F.? Well, you might not be able to imagine such a country, but that was the kind of nation our founders dreamed about, fought for, and bequeathed to their posterity.

Unfortunately, this generation of Americans seems willing to squander the sacrifice and repudiate the principles of its ancestors. With the way things are going, can you imagine what this nation will look like in another 50 years?

[End Times Sentinel]

Thank you, Liberals! Through your ignorance of The Constitution, dismissal of science and reason you’ve sabotaged our great country and subverted our virtues. Just because your minds are awful, chaotic places illuminated only occasionally by the false light of Pathos, doesn’t mean you need to make our Great Country reflective of your malfunctioning brains.

Sometimes I wonder why we make such an effort to hunt down and exterminate terrorists over seas when there are so many liberals right here…

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

[Mojo-jo-jo]

Great post...great reasons to continue praying for our country!

[Dust in the Wind]

BUMPING the image of "the kind of nation our founders dreamed about, fought for, and bequeathed to their posterity."

[Aurelius]

BUMP

[Maceman]

I try not to.

[DoctorMichael]

Can You Imagine What This Nation Will Look Like In Another 50 Years?

Without reading the rest of the article.............just the title was cause for the hairs on the back of my neck to stand up. Pretty scary.

[tracer]

Not to worry, OE. Their day will come. One can only hope that those responsible for the decline of our civilization are remembered and are alive or can be located when that day arrives....

[tracer]

"or" should be "and"....

[tracer]

On second thought..... 8>)

[koba]

Whatever criticism you want to make of liberals their overall plan to change America is succeeding. Conservatives can make fun of the liberals all they want but the liberals will have the last laugh with changing demographics.

[TexasRepublic]

Does anyone really think we haven't passed the point of no-return?

[koba]

At thiss point, as far as demographic changes are concerned, yes, I think the U.S. has hit the point of no return. The immigrants who are here tend to have more children than white Americans (ex. Hispanic birthrate is 3.4 babies per woman, white birthrate is 1.84 babies per woman). Even with no further immigration major demographic changes will take place. No one is stopping the immigration machine, either. Remember that 2 million immigrants (90% non-white) come to the U.S.each year, legally and illegally. The politicians talk about stopping this but haven't stopped it so far. Reagan said "This country has lost control of its borders"---generally a true statement but even he did nothing about the immigration situation. America is going on its inexorable path towards demographic change, and the liberals will have the last laugh. All this is happening while conservatives are busy arguing about the differences between paleo-conservatism, neoconservatism, or whatever. What will all these arguments matter when the conservatives will be outnumbered by the liberals and their new allies?