Have we gone backwards as a nation?
Well over a century ago, a world famous writer predicted that all civilizations and nations of the past, we too, the United States of America, would in time fade out of world history and be no more a nation that the rest of the world would look up to. The statement was made at a time just prior to World War I when our nation was bursting with idealism and glowing with pride. What made us so great was that we were not putting all our energy into building up ourselves, but building for the betterment of the whole world. We took pride in the statement that never would we want to permanently hold on to lands that we had taken over in wars. Land should be returned to the rightful owners. This noble viewpoint was upheld in the early years of the century but with certain alterations. After the Spanish-American War, we promised to turn back to the people all lands once we had set up a new government and we did, in time, and helped to free the nations from the Japanese occupation. This was the case of the Philippines. In Cuba, that we took from Spain at the same time, we took over the government but were unsuccessful in keeping a fully stable government and Cuba is now under their own power, although run by a dictator. What has turned this nation that was once looked up to by the entire world, and a nation that wanted to be emulated by all others? It is a hunger for power over the destiny of people and nations, and the growth of the military industrial complex that President Eisenhower warned us against and that is in power today. In World War II, a united people and nation performed the greatest operations in world history in winning a complete victory and unconditional surrender of Japan, armed to the teeth, and the great war machine of Germany and her allies. When World War II was over, the whole world trembled when we spoke and all we had to do was to form pacts with any nation, anywhere, which we did. This drastic act first brought on the distrust and suspicions of the world. The world felt that no nation should govern other nations in peace times by power and money. The result of wanting to be protector and advisor to the rest of the world was that our nation thought it was so big that it took over the mission and world duties of the United Nations. In Korea, we took over when North Korea invaded South Korea as the United Nations was not ready to act. We are still there and may be for years with all the liabilities. The same is true of Vietnam, a war that we met with defeat; the first in our history and by a small nation at that. We as a nation can talk to the world but the world will not listen as we have the respect we once held. Let us admit that we are a sick nation and we are getting sicker all the time.We have tried to save the world and have lost our soul and ideals in return. No longer do we trust in God as we once stamped on our silver dollars, that are also gone because paper money is cheaper. All we have to do is to give the people our “IOU†and go $400 billion in debt. It now takes $200 billion to operate our nation and with all our machinery, foreign nations are underselling us in cars and other machinery used daily. Slogans and optimistic talks will not turn the tide. Nor can inflation and the increasing of costs. There can be no permanent recovery unless we do as we did in WWI and WWII when all the energy of the nation had to go into building up our strength and need of survival. Some men have suggested that a depression would be a good remedy so that the people would get off their high horses and walk again. A few people are willing to live higher than before, while the money for all is not there. We can limp along for a while this way, but the day of reckoning is coming as sure as the sun will be rising tomorrow. Two and two still make four and common sense will still survive. We cannot live in a fool’s paradise forever. Have we gone backwards as a nation?
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We are the UN. But you are right. By trying to appease the world and others we have forgotten our own country. I agree.
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You said it all. So what's the question?
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yes, all that needs to happen is a Revelation that makes us look at each other as equals not as one is above another.... We all reach the same destiny, death, why don't some people stop being so stupid? I'm from the USA but I hate how people could be so judgemental and ignorant? Whats wrong with people these days?
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Joe you are tragically perceptive. Sloth, ignorance, apathy, self-gratification, greed, illiteracy have replaced the courage, sacrifice and effort of the founders and builders of our wonderful country. We owe so much to so many freedom-fighters and patriots, but gratitude is not in the lexicon of narcissism. The stature of statesmanship has evolved into political pandering for self gain and contempt for our history and the voters who send them to our capitols to do our bidding at great cost to us taxpayers. Our last defensive victory was WWII. Since then, our military is used as pawns in the machinations of global ambition. Vacuous celebrities are idolized for their inane, illegal and inhumane behaviors, while our military is tossed aside with their injuries and deaths from protecting these steroid/drug/alcohol-abusing derelicts who are given millions of dollars. Millions of Americans and millions of illegal alien parasites don't even know and wouldn't care that their future is of much shorter duration than what you predict. Depopulation through bioterrorist, nuclear or financial attack fills the need for fewer occupants considered inferior by the elites with the money and the power. China holds enough of our debt to completely vaporize our country if called, as proven by a single subtle threat to divest of some of our dollars that just recently caused worldwide near-panic at the same time our subprime mortgage disaster was finally being recognized by the industry. Thousands more jobs gone for America. Millions of American jobs gone overseas or to illegal labor here that taxpayers subsidize for American employers. A president who is working to destroy our national sovereignty by melding us with two countries of widely differing philosophies, language, coinage and culture without consulting us, even ridiculing publicly those who know what he's doing in stealth (until now) while meeting for the third time with leaders of Canada and Mexico for a North American Union. Because our congress is doing nothing to counter and stop this, they must be considered accomplices. More fools they, because most of them have no significant wealth, so are nothing more than useful idiots to the globalists. The Clintons and the Bushes, all with suspect histories, are doing the last steps for the globalists, but they will be tossed aside, also. One pair is white trash from Arkansas; the other one is a grandson of a Nazi collaberator who clawed his way to some wealth by never missing any means for a dollar. 'The Rise and Fall of Rome' provides a disturbing similarity to what astute observers of our society see is our end as the glorious United States of America.
