The prevalence with which I am subjected to wishful declarations that “things are going to get better; I just feel it” is far too much for me to count. There is a seeming wave of hope washing over the American populace at present. They’re once again drowning in their own complacency.
I’ve oft heard it said by religious aficionados that the ills of American culture stem largely from the individual’s abandonment of the church or God. There seems to be an apparent extinction of morality. With respect to morality, the claim could not be further from the truth. However, while a grasp of morality is vastly out of reach with the overwhelming majority of the populace…faith, most certainly, is not.
The populace has faith that Obama will single handedly turn the country and/or economy around. Were it even plausible that one man alone could bring this to pass, I can’t help but question at what cost? I certainly am just in my own reservations of even attempting such a feat as I recall the infinite wisdom of Ronald Reagan on the subject.
“The Founding Fathers knew a government can’t control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose.”
The populace is hopeful that we’ll rebound, ignoring the same prosperity which exists at this very moment instead supplanting it with the necessity of some government tilled fertile soil which is the only path to economic or social prosperity.
They partake of these notions all the while sacrificing reason and logic at the alter.
Hope and faith is their rope, which they cling to on the side of a cliff while the dark abyss beneath them is that proverbial black hole whose rocky bottom is a hell beyond their vision. Ideally, they could hang forever in limbo provided they had the strength or even the cognition to know they could. Unfortunately, for them, the rope they cling to is wearing thin.
In their desperation, they care not the weight of the ballooning debt, the demise of their precious and almighty dollar and the crippling knees of the generations shouldering it. They do not care of the expansion of the state and the pervasive allegiance to it. For, they do not know it because they haven’t the morality to see it.
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Now, that is a post that is dead on.
If you read Atlas Shrugged you realize that it involves beliefs, faith, and a morality.
We sometimes believe that capitalism is about dog eat dog but it is not.
A handshake involves a higher moral standard and faith than anything else I can think of.
But to claim a 'belief' without facts or logic is not faith nor is it a morality.
I think it is because people don't want to take responsibility for their own selves anymore, it's much easier to look to the government to take care of them, and also blame when problems arise.
I swear, our founding fathers are spinning in their graves.
Were it even plausible that one man alone could bring this to pass, I can’t help but question at what cost?
That's easy. The legacy of the New Deal (which begat this mess).
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