Sadly the passage of the stimulus bill to an all-too-willing President serves to mark the certain end of an era.<\/p>\n
We have become a nation ruled by a majority no longer able or equipped to face our challenges head-on, rather deferring them ever further into the future for our children to solve.<\/p>\n
In a bygone era, we collectively strove to live our lives and suffer sacrifices to lever the rarefied benefits of freedom and enterprise for the sake of future generations in the interest of a higher standard of living.<\/p>\n
A great many among us even risked their very lives so that America could remain free and were thus christened The Greatest Generation.<\/p>\n
Alas, long gone are the concepts of thrift and sacrifice that faded memories of a great depression taught us generations ago.<\/p>\n
There once was a time when the trappings of success were acquired once you were actually<\/em> successful. Nowadays young people feel they deserve to pick up where their parents left off.<\/p>\n Indeed, our entire commercial culture is predicated on the fact that whatever you wear, whatever you drive, the very house that you live in is obsolete the day after you acquire it.<\/p>\n An anachronism indeed is the concept that if you can’t afford it don’t buy it. In its place: buy now pay later; you deserve it!<\/p>\n Is it no wonder then that our government is an apt reflection of we who sent them and are now levering the future for today?<\/p>\n Driven by an insatiable appetite for consumerism, enabled by institutions all too willing to lend with greater margins of risk, risk falsely mitigated by high minded liberals hell bent on gerrymandering and meddling their way to Utopia, our nation has been sowing the seeds of this crisis for decades.<\/p>\n Growing under the dark clouds of a three decade long supercyle of personal, corporate, institutional and government borrowing, the seeds needed only a nudge to emerge.<\/p>\n Now germinated, a crisis that has left our government so clueless as to the solution that it offers a larger dose of the poison as prescription.<\/p>\n Liberal politicians have hijacked the will of half of our electorate, skillfully conditioning their impressionable sensibilities and aligning millions behind the notion that mother government is somehow able to absolve them of their responsibilities as a citizen of a free nation.<\/p>\n They have been led to believe that they are entitled to the coffers, filled now only with obligations to future generations, or to be defaulted upon entirely, because they are entitled to be equal to those vilified by their choice to work hard, employ others, save and invest.<\/p>\n These hapless many are being reminded that all men are created equal, and entitled to remain so.<\/p>\n Substantiated by billions to be spent with no chance of any economic impact, this stimulus bill is the manifestation of all of this coupled with the inexorable will of liberals to enlarge our government as an instrument of their collectivism ambitions. This crisis is not seen as a challenge to solve rather it is a gift not to be squandered. The American people are vulnerable; time is of the essence for a liberal political land grab.<\/p>\n …all sold under the guise suffering and sacrifice are no longer modern concepts, offer no tuition and are to be avoided at all costs; even at the expense of our children’s financial future – even at the expense of our freedom as a nation.<\/p>\n Wars were once fought with sticks and stones but the wars of the future may very well be fought with financial instruments. The battleground may be the internet and in the financial markets. The strong, preying on the weak, especially those destroyed from within.<\/p>\n This battle may already be afoot.<\/p>\n This generation has brought our nation to its knees. Now manifested is the notion that a democracy made aware of it’s power to vote itself it’s riches will do so, and with a vengeance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sadly the passage of the stimulus bill to an all-too-willing President serves to mark the certain end of an era. We have become a nation ruled by a majority no longer able or equipped to face our challenges head-on, rather deferring them ever further into the future for our children to solve. 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