Posted by
The INFORMER (Cokie907@yahoo.com) on Saturday, October 31, 2009 11:05:24 AM
Anyone of my Grassroot Troopers remember this progression of a free society through time?
1. from bondage to spiritual faith
2. from spiritual faith to great courage
3. from courage to liberty
4. from liberty to abundance
5. from abundance to complacency
6. from complacency to apathy
7. from apathy to dependence
8. From dependence back into bondage
I believe we spent the first half of the 20th century in the 4th phase. Something happened in the late 1950's as we slipped into phase 5. Perhaps life became too easy in America due to massive prosperity and the carefree living that Americans experienced. But nothing demonstrates the slide of America's electorate toward apathy and ignorance more than the stinging defeat of Barry Goldwater in 1964.
Imagine a Reagan-esque, Constitution-loving conservative like Goldwater losing to a scoundrel like LBJ? He mismanaged a "police action" in Vietnam that was started under false pretenses and dragged on for 8 years, costing 58,000 lives. He pushed through socialistic monstrosities like the Great Society and Medicare. These creations will ultimately drag America into the ash heap of history unless we repeal them, of this I am positive. Look at the US debt clock and you'll see that the unfunded liability of future Medicare costs are in the neighborhood of $73,500,000,000,000. This amount of money can never be paid.....ever.
The American electorate has moved quickly through phase 6 in the 1990's under Bill Clinton. Nobody cared about the desecration of the Oval Office or the subversion of the Justice System by its highest law enforcement officer, the President. The spectre of terrorism was on the horizon with numerous attacks on our embassies and military installations, yet nobody cared. This apathy brought us to 9/11, where we woke up as a nation for about 2 months. Then it was back to sleep for many of our fellow Americans.
A massive financial calamity has scared people to the point where we've moved into phase 7. In this phase, people who are so ignorant they can't even name their own Senators, are looking to the government for salvation. How ironic! By socializing the mortgage, energy and banking industries over DECADES with heaps of controlling regulations, elected leaders are the ones responsible for most of the problems we face today. This is like asking the arsonist to come and put out the fire he's started! People like Barney Frank and Chris Dodd gladly run in to wield more power and seize more control. Which leads America now into phase 8.
"From dependence back into bondage." Nothing will facilitate this better than a destruction of our currency. It's just a matter of time my friend......