November 13, 2008
The Grim Significance of the 2008 Elections
Printer FriendlyBy: Christopher G. Adamo
Perhaps the most disheartening reaction to the November 4 election of Barack Obama has been the attempt by conservatives to laud his victory as some sort of worthy racial milestone in American history. This lame effort to find conciliatory ground with the far left will ultimately prove futile. Worse yet, it lends an air of credibility to a malignant and corrupt political machine that threatens the very future of America and thus deserves no such tribute.
In truth, the racial “glass ceiling” that once tainted the American political landscape has quietly been eradicated for perhaps the past three decades. During that time, numerous American black luminaries have risen to the pinnacle of their fields, including several who achieved very high positions within the U.S. Government. Admittedly, as Republicans and conservatives they are rarely credited for their groundbreaking achievements.
Dr. Alan Keyes, for one example, has been a United States Ambassador and a driving force of the conservative movement, as well as a presidential candidate, during his prominent career. While Dr. Keyes’ ideological motivation and energy may have better lent themselves to the landmark work of re-establishing and reaffirming America’s spiritual roots than to the “nuts and bolts” pragmatism of the political realm, he is nonetheless respected and venerated with near unanimity among grassroots conservatives.
Along with Keyes, other notable individuals include Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, owing to his moral decency, wisdom, and bold regard for the integrity of the U.S. Constitution. Clearly, Justice Thomas could have swiftly garnered enormous conservative support had he ever shown an inclination to change careers and run for high office.
In much the same manner, the one-time widespread popularity of Republican Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell resulted in their enthusiastic consideration for the presidency, though on closer examination both proved to be far too liberal to warrant unconditional conservative support. Nevertheless, the ebb and flow of their political careers was based entirely on political philosophy and not race.
All of the above examples are inarguable testimony of the post-racial mindset that has prevailed in this country for many years, at least on the right. Conversely, it is worth remembering the obscene treatment these same individuals received from the left. It was not Republicans or conservatives who resorted to revolting racial stereotypes in efforts to undercut political adversaries who happened to be black. The epithets of “Uncle Tom,” and “Aunt Jemima” were deployed by the left, not the right, as weapons of bigotry and racial subjugation, proving beyond any doubt that the liberal facade of racial sensitivity is completely conditional and exists wholly for its political advantages.
Thus, in the thoroughly poisoned atmosphere of present-day America, Barack Obama’s presidential win simply cannot be interpreted as the ascendancy of America over past struggles with race, but instead an indication of the ongoing manipulative use of race for political expediency. Obama himself contributed significantly to this travesty by regularly invoking race when among certain crowds, and then completely denying its relevance when appearing before others. In the end, he did not gloriously ascend upon the shoulders of his brethren, but more accurately achieved his goal by standing on their backs.
It is far more significant however to recognize that the racial game Obama played represents only one aspect of the twisted political movement that seized the presidency for him. From its shady financing, to the innumerable incidents of voter fraud and intimidation, to the media propaganda blitz that rivaled anything seen since the days of Joseph Goebbels, the incessant parade of despicable behavior indicates that Obama and his political apparatus believe that they could not have won a sincere and open political competition.
Ultimately, instead of highlighting the ascendancy of the American mainstream above past racial prejudices, the 2008 election will ever after serve as a bell-weather of the total collapse of the American political process, possibly marking the end of the freedom and greatness of America.
In response, real Americans must put futile attempts at “graciousness” aside, recognize the dire nature of the situation in which they find themselves, and say so publicly. They must immediately return to a political discourse that is defined by truth, and not tainted beyond recognition with “political correctness.” Good must be called “good,” and evil must be called “evil,” with no concern for the predictably overblown and hysterical reactions of the opposition.
No quarter can be offered in response to the false supposition of liberal sincerity. Those on the left care about the supposed sexual harassment of women only when they can gain political traction from the ensuing controversy surrounding it. They tout “morality” only when a scandal emerges that might cost a Republican Senator his seat. When such problems are unearthed on their side of the aisle, they turn a blind eye and deliver platitudes about one’s “private” life or the “politics of destruction.” Likewise, liberals throughout the Democrat political machine and the old media cite race only when they can use the issue to bludgeon their rivals.
This year, liberal Democrats showed their true disdain and contempt for the wishes of the American electorate by ignoring the countless incidents of criminal vote tampering that inarguably altered the outcome of the 2008 elections. Consequently, patriotic Americans owe no unconditional “oath of loyalty” to Obama, who now leads the political movement that loudly flaunted its total disloyalty to the current president even when doing so undermined the interests of this nation as he sought to preserve and defend it.
It is high time for conservatives to recognize that since the 1990s, the rules have changed. The only “new ground” broken during this year’s election cycle was the boundary of law that had once been instituted to ensure a just and equitable execution of the democratic process, but is now in shambles.
The underhanded Democrat tactics of the 2008 political season are no less a declaration of war on the conventions and institutions of the American heartland than were the numerous Islamist attacks preceding 9-11. And anything short of a full and appropriate political and ideological counterattack from the right will guarantee its eventual defeat.
Posted by redguy at November 13, 2008 05:39 AM
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President elect Obama, What is your plan to create positive change in America?
Change, change we believe in. Hope we can hope for. Those were the calls of your campaign.
Well the time to start defining what you mean by Change and what we can Hope for is now at hand.
You would do well to remember that change is about creating a new Strategic Vision for the Country not about changing its framework.
“The Founding Fathers of our United States did not unite the States. They created the Structural Framework called the Constitution on which the States could unite.”
Prudence dictates that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes.
Many people fear that you might choose to promote change in the form of a radical left wing swing to socialism or progressivism as never before seen in the USA.
More government programs with the need for more oversight by Congressional politicians who today have a combined approval rating of 9% and conviction rate on corruption charges only surpassed by the very businesses they are supposed to be overseeing. Is this what you mean by change you can believe in? More Government less individual rights and more get rich schemes for the power brokers in Washington.
There are many possibilities for change. Change can be revolutionary as in the above example or evolutionary, slow and incremental as we have seen since the 1960’s. One step at a time we have lost sight of the moral foundation of this great country. Secular demands and greed have taken control.
The need for “change” now is not the Structure of the government which has served us well for over two hundred years but rather the moral integrity of the elected officials and business leaders; The people who have caused the financial crisis, the moral decay and the lack of integrity in our government which resulted in the calls for change.
The financial meltdown is a direct result of greed. JFK’s great line “ask not what your country can do for you but rather what you can do for your country” has gone so far to the other extreme that you were elected to office on the platform of how many programs you can create for the poor and middle class to receive services from our country.
Have people forgotten that with citizenship there are rights, but also responsibilities?
As Americans we seem to think that the office of the President of the United States of America has the power to mold the country, shape it, and change it to the direction they would like to go. But, like the captain of a great ship he might issue commands for a change of course, but all experience has shown that the direction of the ship is more prone to move according to the miscues of a mal-functioning crew, than to respond to the call for change from the control room.
It is much easier to change the captain than the crew of the ship but a change at the top does not achieve the change of direction desired if the crew continues to operate as usual.
In the case of our nation, Congress is the crew which operates the engine of change.
This past election proved that while conditions are sufferable it is easier to live with a Congress with a 9% approval rating than elect people to make positive change in our government.
You represented the most radical left leaning person in Congress. If “change” is radical which appears to be your message you could further divided this great nation. However, you have the opportunity to unite the country by moving right and accepting the values of the Christian religion which you profess.
It took a civil war and a great Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, to firmly establish to the nation and the world: that we believe all men are truly created equal. Isn’t it great that race is no longer a divisive issue as illustrated by your election as President? We are finally willing to accept that all men are created equal!
No, race is not the issue today, the need for “change” is the issue!
There has never been another country like the United States of America in the history of the world, A country where our very foundation is built upon the premise that: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
Change we can believe in! You ask the country to change without defining what you mean. In order to meet in the middle you need to change your well known position on “Life” or you will further divide the country and not bring unity.
We cannot move forward as a country divided as we are today on this key foundational issue. “Life”, one of the GOD given unalienable Rights, what man or woman or nation can put aside the very right to life itself? Which is greater; equal rights or the right to life itself? Both are covered in the same clause that gave you equal rights.
Reform the vision we have for our country and unite the elected officials in Washington in the cause to serve the people of the United States of America just as the citizens are called to serve the country. United we can and will move forward to a better and brighter future for all of the citizens of these great United States.
Let me remind you of what happens when people try to imitate God. When the people of Babylon said: 'Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.' And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men had built. And the LORD said, 'Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do; and nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.’
For years English was the language of our great country, people came from far and wide to be citizens because of our values. They willingly gave up the old country and learned the ways and language of the new.
We have chosen to take the issue of life in our own hands. As a result has GOD chosen to make us like Babel? Has he chosen to confuse our language that we may not understand one another's speech?
It is very interesting indeed that the number of abortions in this country so closely matches the number of illegal immigrants going back to the date of Roe V Wade. 46,000,000 million people!
What have we done?
Liberty, “freedom”, is a thing of beauty but only if you have life to enjoy it!
How long does a baby have to live? From the moment of conception or until some man or woman decides to play GOD!
By denying them the very right to life, what have we as a nation lost in the millions of people who would have grown up in the best country in the history of the world?
What are the consequences for those involved and the nation that is so divided over an issue today that is more important to our future existence than the issue of slavery in our not so distance past?
A human life with liberty and freedom allows for the best expression of mans ability to create and bring glory to GOD.
You Mr. President Elect Obama are in the position to bring a healing to this country like President Abraham Lincoln before you. All you have to do is change your opinion on when human life begins. A failure to do so runs the risk of another great division which will take years, if ever, to heal.
With a divided country you cannot achieve change. If you lead by example and put human life over convenience, and demonstrate change in your position you would be asking for change in the country in a way that many more people would be willing to follow.
When we unite as nation to unleash the creative power inherent in the people in our country, we lead the world creating change in the way people live and work and relate to each other.
We have experienced this many times in the past and there is every reason to believe that we can continue to create new visions for the world in which we live.
In the history of our great country we have experienced periods of transformational change in farming, transportation and manufacturing they have changed the face of the country and the nature of the work we perform. How many unemployed stage coach drivers do you know today?
Today we face another period of transformational change in several areas!
Transportation:
The urgent reality is that if we continue with our current transportation policies, it will undermine the social and economic security of our workforce and our country. Our transportation system needs to be changed again!
• Dependence on foreign oil can and will someday stop us in our tracks.
• Congested highways and skies drained $78 billion from our economy in 2005, added 4.2 billion hours to Americans' commutes while wasting 2.9 billion gallons of gasoline. ---Texas A&M study.
• Traffic fatalities account for over 40,000 deaths per year according to DOT.
Change those figures to today’s high cost of oil and then imagine doubling the number of vehicles on the road and planes in the air over the next fifty years, the problem becomes unmanageable and the cost to our society a burden to heavy to bear. Yes, we have the best transportation system in the world but it costs too much to operate and the fuel basis of the system is no longer under our control. We spend the largest percentage of our energy use on transportation.
We must transform our thinking and chart a new course by gaining control of the fuel source or changing the fuel basis of our transportation system while improving the safety. Hence forth rebuilding America's overburdened and, in many cases, obsolete transportation infrastructure must be done while addressing these two 21st-century imperatives.
We should have moved onto a more sustainable and efficient hydrogen energy economy in the last generation but gas guzzling cars etc. remain the same today. We are now facing the same questions and congress is still making the same bad decisions that we made as a nation in the nineteen seventies. Despite the high cost of a barrel of crude, world demand shows no signs of slowing and here we are still building an oil based transportation system. What thoughtful congressmen we have. Do they not understand the reality of the world energy situation? No wonder they only have a 9% approval rating!
The most important thing is to move toward a hydrogen based economy and make use of all know oil reserves and all other potential forms of energy available to us. We do not need to build new transportation systems based on oil. The remaining oil should be used to provide our needs during the conversion to a hydrogen economy.
The economic impact this change in transportation will have on the economy is fantastic. New jobs, new industries and excitement the likes of which we have not seen in years.
What will it look like? You decide!
Manufacturing:
The Mass production model which has driven our economy since the days of Henry Ford is no longer working.
Labor is cheap in a world that has increased in population by a factor of 4, (doubled twice), since 1900. Globalization is transforming our country like it or not. How do we respond?
Today we need transformational change in our manufacturing systems.
Our leverage point for massive productivity improvement is and has always been the freedom to create—new industries, new business models, and new visions for what the future will bring.
Mass Customization is the new model in a world with billions of people not everyone wants to be the same. Being different, standing out from the crowd, and leading the way is what we do best as American’s. Who wants to be a citizen of the world when you can be a citizen of the United States of American the greatest country ever?
Education:
The one size fits all model of public education is not working. Our schools are not providing students with the freedom to explore their creative abilities an individual desires. They are not being allowed to discover their purpose in life, but rather told they must meet certain secular standards. We need to release the creative potential inherent in people.
Each person is unique and therefore we should let them or their parents’ control their education as much as possible. Vouchers that can be used at any school will bring creativity back to the America educational experience. And, yes they could be used at religious schools.
Character is the main issue. The character of a man is more important than any education he might receive. If the education does not teach character then the learned man is more dangerous to himself and society as a whole as the undisciplined mind has no bounds and does not know right from wrong anything goes. Epicureanism, as this lack of boundaries is known is a form of hedonism. In addition it declares pleasure as the sole intrinsic good, and sees the absence of pain as the greatest pleasure. It is devoid of any sense of virtue and duty.
Gone is the relationship between the ability to think, to work, to act for the satisfaction of one’s desires to be replaced with the concept that a persons need, color of skin, split nationality, or lost sexuality creates an obligation to be satisfied by the governments transfer of wealth and special privileges under manufactured law. That is where we are as a nation today. Void of the moral values that define the ability of a democracy to survive.
Can a free democratic society exist with an education system that does not teach a religious moral or ethical basis for decision making to its hires? We see what we get with the current group of business leaders and self centered congressmen.
In the original Harvard Student Handbook, rule number 1 was that students seeking entrance must know Latin and Greek so that they could study the Biblical Scriptures: "Let every student be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to consider well, the main end of his life and studies, is, to know God and Jesus Christ, which is eternal life,! John 17:3; and therefore to lay Jesus Christ as the only foundation for our children to follow the moral principles of the Ten Commandments."
Yet today, We have reached the point in the United States of America where as a society we choose to ignore the existence of God. We have removed him not only from the great educational Institutions like Harvard but from all of our schools and the government itself. That has to change if we are to survive as a country.
Since the federal government according to the 14 amendment does not control the schools you should return educational funding to the states or with tax vouchers for parents allow them to choose the nature and place of their child's education including home schooling.
Religion:
The change we are talking about is once again recognizing the fact that there is a creator and that all men are created equal!
If our religion were gone, our state of society would perish with it and nothing would be left which would be worth defending.
Patrick Henry in the year 1776 wrote this: "It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great Nation was founded not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For that reason alone, people of other faiths have been afforded freedom of worship here."
Freedom of religion does not mean freedom from religion and it certainly does not mean that every decision made it the United States must pass a secular test the Supreme Court created to be used in all establishment-clause cases with the Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971) decision. Since then every law challenged under the establishment clause would pass constitutional muster only if it has a secular purpose.
That is just plain wrong the purpose of the separations clause was and is to keep Government out of religion not religion out of government. You cannot walk through Washington without seeing the impact Christianity has had on this nation from its foundation until today.
IF THAT WERE NOT SO WHY DO WE SING “GOD BLESS AMERICAN”?
Where do you stand in this great debate? Today you have a clear choice like Abraham Lincoln.
We cannot stand as a nation divided against itself half wanting to remove the few ruminates of GOD left in our society and half recognizing the meaning of IN GOD WE TRUST.
A nation with no moral standards upon which to base its laws will fail as it stands for nothing. Anything goes and the people in charge of the laws set the rules. By its very nature this is worse than any potential religious tests the amendment was written to address. This fits the description of the failure of democracy in Plato’s The Republic to a tee. What happens next is tyranny it is just a question of the power which will fill the resulting void.
To see where we are headed as a nation? Read Gibbons, "Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire" and the Bible. In the 19th and very early 20th century, the Bible and Gibbon's monumental work were nearly required reading for anyone with aspirations for leadership or government service. Today, you may have a hard time finding a public library that has a copy of either work.
Someone once said something to the effect that "those who will not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." It would appear that we have not only thrown God out of our government, our schools, many of our churches, and our society as a whole, but we have thrown out any desire to know what happens to nations and people when they do such things. You should read the Bible, Deuteronomy Chapter 28 to see the answer. Never have so many been as foolish as today, civic virtue is ignored and the unrestrained values of non-Christian people are changing the rule of law to suit their base desires. How long can we survive as a Secular, Humanistic Atheist nation?
Transformational change is required in the course our nation is on if we are to survive.
I believe our government cannot endure, permanently half trying to institute
a national secular humanist religion and half clinging to the thread of hope that we will return to the founding fathers vision of freedom of religion.
You must decide which direction we are headed in as a nation. The choice is yours
Immigration:
The British Empire once spread the culture of prosperity around the globe -- Judeo-Christian values, tolerance, equality, private property and the rule of law. All recipients of the British Empire's largesse benefited, but the empire's most successful colony was the United States of America.
That success came as a result of the Declaration of Independence with these bold words “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed---“.
As a result, Individuals all over the world know what freedom means and they recognize the United States of America as the place where they can pursue their dreams.
Millions of people have come year after year seeking independence from the tyranny of oppression with heavy burdens having given up or lost their entire familial past to do so.
Those people had no choice other than to assimilate into the fabric of the American society. But a large number of people came in waves from the same geographic area fleeing famine and economic hardship, without any desire to become Americans, seeking only a better life. They did not want to give up their old country and its ways and assimilate into our society. At different times throughout our history this has created many problems as the potential for internal conflict and division along old national allegiances reached the boiling point.
As a result, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, immigrant and first Jewish member of the Supreme Court, tried to set the standards for assimilation when he said that Americanization required that the immigrant adopt "the clothes, the manners and the customs generally prevailing here" and that he adopt "the English language as the common medium of speech."
But, Brandeis said, this is only part of it. "(W)e properly demand of the immigrant even more than this -- he must be brought into complete harmony with our ideals and aspirations and cooperate with us for their attainment. Only when this has been done will he possess the national consciousness of an American."
We have to define our immigration-assimilation policy by articulating two interconnected ideas: (1) welcoming immigrants and (2) assimilating those immigrants into the mainstream of American civic life. At the same time we have to make provision for those illegal aliens who are only here for economic reasons to return to their homeland.
The real success story of America’s melting pot has been the degree to which we have been able to assimilate the second generation -- the immigrant’s children, who have grown up surrounded by American peers. And this is where the comparison to 1900 gets very alarming indeed, because the children of today’s immigrants just will not have that many American peers. In 1900, America was a rapidly growing society in which most natives, like most immigrants, had many children.
Today as never before in America’s history have so many immigrants arrived when compared to the size of the next generation of Americans that will be expected to assimilate their children.
But it gets worse, because we do not really know how many “immigrants” we have today, since so many have broken into the country illegally -- an important distinction with previous waves of immigrants, that asked permission to enter and were accurately counted upon arrival, exists. These off the books people operate using the freedom of our system but ignoring the laws of the land creating a sub culture without moral or legal control. The number of illegal immigrants is the estimates of the Census Bureau. Many people consider these to be underestimates, no provision has been made to try and account for the magnitude of the problem.
This was the conclusion of a 2005 private sector study by Bear Stearns economists, who stated, “Illegal immigrants work very hard to conceal their identities and successfully avoid being counted. Even apprehended illegal migrants will hide important personal data on their status to avoid removal. Census officials and academics underestimate the ingenuity and the efficiency of the communications network among immigrants.”
Using indirect methods that do not rely on the willingness of immigration criminals to identify themselves as such, Bear Stearns estimated that the Census Bureau had underestimated the population of illegal aliens in America by more than half, missing 11 million.
If the Bear Stearns estimate is correct, then the current population of the foreign born in America is over 46 million -- 228% of the population of children under 5 in the country. This proportion could thus be nearly double what it was in 1910, the previous record. In addition, this estimate would mean that the foreign born now constitute 15.2% of the total population of the country -- more than at any time during the last 150 years.
When millions of people are coming to the United States each year—many of them from the same geographic area and without any desire to become Americans—how do we preserve and perpetuate the “American identity”? By the American identity I mean those qualities that make us Americans, make our country the envy of the world and the beacon of hope for freedom loving people everywhere. If we lose those qualities, if we start to look like and act like the rest of the world, where will the next generation of political refugees seek asylum?
Throughout history, America has absorbed waves of immigration and preserved a shared national identity by assimilating newcomers into the great “melting pot.” But many Americans have begun to wonder whether or not the “melting pot” is still melting—or if it has been replaced by a “salad bowl.”
The equal protections clause is being ignored by Congress. Theodore Roosevelt understood the need for the assimilation of the “melting pot.” He said: “The effort to keep our citizenship divided against itself by the use of the hyphen along the lines of national origin is certain to breed a spirit of bitterness and prejudice and dislike between great bodies of our citizens.” We have certainly reached that point today when a DNA test would be sought and needed by people to gain entrance into the hyphenated groups with the most privileges and immunities. Why is being American not enough anymore? You have the opportunity to stop a dividing issue by dropping the use of the hyphen.
Theodore Roosevelt served as both Governor of New York and President of the United States during one of America’s largest and most famous waves of immigration.
“Let us say to the immigrant NOT that we hope he will learn English, but that he has GOT to learn it. Let the immigrant who will not learn it go back. He must be made to consider the interest of these United States or he should not stay here. He must be made to see that his opportunities in this country depend on it. He must be made to see that his opportunities in this country depend on knowing English and observing American standards. And employers cannot be permitted to regard him as only industrial asset.”
There are many characteristics that set today’s immigration frenzy apart from others -- such as that so many immigrants are now illegal entrants, that immigrants are now mostly from the third world and entering a first world America, and that many have embraced the idea that they need not assimilate into the American culture. In addition, the simple total numbers do matter when discussing issues such as population density and environmental burdens.
At the precise moment in history when the U.S. has abandoned any attempt to transmit Anglo-Saxon virtues to its own citizens, much less to immigrants, many people want to grant citizenship to hordes of immigrants who are here precisely because they are fleeing cultures that are utterly dysfunctional and ruinous for the humans who live in them.
Yes, this country has absorbed huge migrations of illiterate peasants in the past. But also a lot of them went back. We got the good ones as America was not yet a welfare state guaranteeing room and board to everyone. These illegal immigrants today will maintain many old habits and old loyalties unto death -- as would an American who found work in a foreign land. Most of them do not have the option of going back even for a visit because of legal and safety reasons.
But don’t forget even illegal immigrants are individuals. You never feel wrong when you hurt other people only when you are the one being hurt does it feel wrong. The objective is not to hurt and destroy the individual but to bring them into the open, to give them the opportunity to completely embrace America and the notion of becoming an American. If that is not their desire then to make provisions for them to return to their home land and recognize the fact that they are here for economic reasons only.
Another part of the issue is today, immigrants and natives have very different birthrates. Not only are many more Americans today elderly and beyond childbearing age, but those who can bear children often don’t. Birthrates are below replacement levels for most groups within the United States. The population of those descended from the native-born is thus declining.
Today’s’ immigrants, on the other hand, still have high birth rates. In 2004, native-born women between the ages of 15 and 44 had 56.7 births per 1000 women. Immigrant women of the same age had 83.7 births per 1000 women -- a rate 47.6% higher than the native born.
This staggering and unprecedented difference in fertility, means that just as America is receiving masses of immigrants as great as any in her history, our ability to assimilate their children is at an all-time low.
Keep in mind it is our aversion to children that is the problem, not immigrants’ acceptance of them most liberal people seem to think that 1.3 million abortions per year is just the price we pay for living in a free and modern society but look at the effects on the future of America. What do you think 1,300,000 men and women per year born in the most successful, blessed society in the history of the world could accomplish?
What have we lost?
Never before in America’s history have this many immigrants arrived when compared to the size of the next generation of Americans that will be expected to assimilate their children.
If you compare the number of immigrants per year to the number of native born children under say the age of five for the last 100 years, it started to increase when abortion became legal and is now at an all time high.
In effect what we have is the convergence of two national problems abortion and illegal immigration.
Which one is the most important? Which one will have the greatest impact on the future of the United States of America?
What are we to do? Lay aside the interpersonal malice and let moral excellent shown in love be your guide. Love the lord your God and love your neighbor as yourself.
Financial
Our coinage and all of our paper money quotes the phrase “In God We Trust”,
Hence the lowly penny left on the ground has as much value as the largest bill as it is not the value of the money but the faith behind it! Anytime you see a penny pick it up and remind yourself that “In God We Trust” and say a prayer for our nation!
And so it is today not a surprise when we have failed to place our trust in God that the very foundation of our financial system is shaken to it’s very core, shaken by men with no moral values, men who lie, cheat, steal and gamble away everything we have worked for as a nation.
To solve this problem we must get back to the basics, return the financial decisions to the local community banks which know the market, the people and the value of the assets. In other words all of these mega banks that have failed should be broken into pieces and returned to local level institutions which will serve the needs of the people.
Let the large institutions fail, turn them over to local banks based on where the property is located. Create new local banks out of the branches. No financial institution should be allowed to become so large that it can affect the system and no existing institution should be bailed out just because “it is to large to fail”, the only question is how you handle the failure.
If we continue as a nation to teach our children that the government or we as parents will not let them fail, they will never learn the value of failure. The value of what it means to be tested and proven right or wrong.
We have the unique opportunity today to teach our children what happens when bad financial decisions are made. Don’t expect the government to ride in on a white horse and rescue us from our own bad decisions. You should tell them to stand on their own two feet and take responsibility for the decisions they make.
In Conclusion:
At one time our first President George Washington was presented with this proclamation “Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me " to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness: " He choose a site in NYC to make the address of the prayer created as a result, know as the Thanksgiving proclamation.
It is time for the Congress to remember those words to acknowledge God and seek His direction for the continued safety and happiness of our country. Members of Congress are called to lead this nation and lead they must. After setting idle for 40 years as evident by the 9% approval rating it is time for Congress to come out of the wilderness.
The frailties within the moral fabric of our nation must be recognized as its primary vulnerability. Can a democracy survive without and underlying moral edifice in its society? If decisions are made without a moral basis anything goes.
When you look around the USA it is easy to see the decay in our once holy culture and the beautiful system of government that our fore-fathers created. It is obvious from the very design that they praised Christ’s Holy name. Yet our house has been burned by fire; the image of the falling twin towers seared into the brain, all our precious liberties have become ruin. Will God restrain himself with these things or keep silent and afflict us beyond measure?
God has called us as a nation like none before. He has shown his face to us many times even though we have been a rebellious people and not called on his name, but rather followed our on thoughts as if we are gods mocking Jesus Christ to his face. God will not let the iniquities of the secular humanism society created by our fathers and pursued with vigor today continue. He has warned us that we will be repaid. Our only hope is that he will find more than enough of His servants in our nation so that he does not feel compelled to destroy it like another Sodom and Gomorra.
Our hope for restoration comes only through the troubles which so clearly show the error of our ways to the whole world. We are know as the “Great Satan” because we have fallen to Satan's numerous temptations, the principle ones among them are idolatry, fornication, theft, extortion, greed, fraud, drunkenness, impatience, adultery, murder, jealousy, false witness, lying, envying, wrath, slander, heresy and a thousand other crimes like them. And of this number is gambling. Pretty contemporary list, wouldn't you say? The Religion of Secular humanism is practiced to its fullest in our society. It is not theistic, and it does not accept supernatural views of reality.
God says that he will not destroy the country because there is benefit in it. He will act on behalf of his chosen servants in order not to destroy everyone. Those who seek him and follow his commandments will be spared but those who do not follow his commands and who continue to seek Fortune and who fill cups with mixed wine for Destiny will be destined for the sword. They shall bow down for the slaughter according. (to Isaiah 65; 11-12). Literally bend over to be decapitated. It is symbolic that the people God has chosen to administer the punishment, the Islamic extremist, use the sword to do just that.
To believe in chance, (Fortune), or luck, (Destiny), is to believe that God doesn't exist or that God's not sovereign. If God does exist and He does, and since He is all powerful, all knowing, He is the creator and the sustainer of the universe, He is the one who upholds everything by His own power and brings to pass His own will, there is no such thing as luck. It is non-existent and chance is non-existent. Things don't just happen randomly by chance. Chance is nothing. It's non-existent.
So what is the benefit to God in the country? Is it possible for us to show the world God’s forgiving mercy by being humble and contrite of spirit and tremble at the word of God. What an example to the world to say we were wrong and ask God’s forgiveness for our sins like abortion. God will rejoice when a human baby, infant, (fetus), no longer lives but a few days.
God’s desire is for us to bless him. By transforming our vision for the future we can do that. We can come together as one people, one nation under GOD, with liberty and justice for all.
My GOD Bless America!!!!
Posted by: Rstory
at November 13, 2008 07:58 AM
You say "The underhanded Democrat tactics of the 2008 political season are no less a declaration of war on the conventions and institutions of the American heartland than were the numerous Islamist attacks preceding 9-11"
This candidate, his ties, the criminality of his election (foreign money, fraudulent votes and no free speech in mainstream media)represent another "9/11" for this country. Also the economic disaster that he helped to create and the possibility of Sharia finance and whatever comes after that (Sharia law in USA?). I am appalled at the sexism displayed during the campaign by the left - this is another similarity to "non-Western" culture. When I tell people the only thing pleasing about the new president is the color of his skin they stare open-mouthed because they have been programmed to accuse "racism" of those who do NOT swoon over this man.
Posted by: crazycatkids
at November 13, 2008 04:29 PM
There is nothing new about underhanded Democratic election tactics. The Democrats were already stealing elections before 1854, when the GOP was founded. That same year, Tammany Hall, a Democratic political machine, took over the government of New York City. One of their favorite tactics was illegally expediting the citizenship of immigrants, who would then vote Democratic in exchange for the favor.
It has always been this way. The Republicans work to establish clear rules and then play by those rules, figuring out the optimal ways to exploit the formal system. The Democrats, meanwhile, try to make election laws as vague as possible and create loopholes so that they can cheat and give their lawyers enough wiggle room to justify the cheating ex post. These respective approaches to elections are part of the DNA of the two parties.
Posted by: Roland
at November 14, 2008 04:08 PM
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