I was going to throw in my 2 cents worth but with inflation, I'll up it to a quarter.
I noticed the start of the decline in America right after Pres. Eisenhauer left office, though I did like Harry Truman too. The moral character of congress and the nation slipped. Our work ethic declined, greed stepped in and the devaluation and currency manipulation set us on the road downhill. Civillity declined.
Both parties are culpable. We tolerated and encouraged welfare, drug use, and special interest groups and will pay the price for it.
Soros wants us to fight amongst ourselves so he can continue the manipulation unnoticed. Looks like he is suceeding. We are for all practical purposes, leaderless.
Historically, what happens next is a severe depression, which is a very dangerous time for our country. Socialism leads to dictatorship.
Ron Paul comes closest to the solution, but his plan, which will be fought by big money and special interest groups, needs to be implimented gradually.
We need to stop electing the weiners of the world and get back to basics.
The Hermit
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Hermit;
That decay started not with just the federal govt ! If you recall, it was just about the beginning of the very early 1960s, when things really accelerated in going the garbage route ! Of course it is coincidental that DDE served as pres from Nov 1953- Jan 1961, I'm sure that is why you relate it to that time. The Beatles were harbingers of the decay (rather a symptom, than a cause), simply because a very perverse generation came along then. Not all were involved of course, but This generation gave rise to the S.D.S. and the "Weathermen' and other such disruptive and even terrorist groups. A portion were drug infested and sex crazed, using "the pill" and living by the slogan, "if it feels good, do it "! Once serious drug addictions, fried brains, herpes, AIDS (formerly GRIDS) and other STDs developed (due to the promiscuity) and became common..it no longer "felt so good".
IMO; it started wih the preceding generation; having suffered through the depression and WW2, they wanted to make things 'better' for their children. An admirable idea, but faulty in execution, since they confused "better" with "easier'..perhaps too easy.
With the post war booming economy and the US flexing it's mighty economic muscle, many forgot where the blessings on this nation originated..with Almighty God ! The doting WW2 parents did not properly discipline their offspring and produced a generation of self-centered egoists, who ignored the God of their fathers and delighted in what the devil had to offer...degrading sin !
Now that generation runs this world...what SHOULD we expect ?
NOTE: Not all in that generation fell for the devil's lies , and some who did, have since redeemed themselves. They are the ones we must sort out and elect...if it is not too late...