- Have you noticed the gridlock in our U.S. Congress?
They can't get anything done that benefits the citizens of our country.
Notice the tens of thousands marching in the cities to "Occupy Wall
Street."
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- One look across the American landscape finds our country
in trouble. Every crisis facing us in 2011 found its origins within our
United States Congress and presidents that led us into wars. While we
may be departing Iraq within months, we have left a trail of devastation
to them and ourselves that will be told in the history books: ruined lives,
amputated bodies horrible trauma and deadly financial consequences.
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- Those men and women, with their hands on the power levers,
jacked this country into horrendous debt, endless war and denigration of
our culture, language and national cohesiveness.
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- They bulldozed us into Vietnam, orchestrated Desert Storm
and manipulated the Iraq War by deceit, deception and treachery.
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- Led by the late Senator Teddy Kennedy, they added 100
million people to our country in the last 40 years with prospects for adding
another 100 million in the next 25 years. Human and environmental consequences
accelerate by the day!
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- When historians tabulate the final toll-our politicians
perpetrating the war in Iraq can be analogous to poking your hand into
a pot of boiling soup. While you keep it in the soup, it scalds your hand,
and, when you finally withdraw it, nothing has changed as the soup continues
boiling, but your hand ultimately falls off from destructive damage to
its ability to function.
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- Pretending or hoping that we brought 'democracy' to an
ancient civilization in Iraq by our armed forces will prove as arrogant
as Achilles with an arrow in his heel and finally his ultimate death.
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- While we find ourselves boiling in debt, our Congress
injects our nation with an untenable future. My friend Doug Dorsey offered
his perspective on what the United States of America faces in the 21st
century:
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- "Aesop, the Greek slave and fable author coined
the phrase, "United we stand, Divided we fall," Dorsey said.
"The Three Musketeers had it right when they said, "All for One,
and One for All". The inverted wording of this phrase is also the
national motto of Switzerland, and written in the cupola of the Federal
Palace of Switzerland. These wonderful phrases were all used in one way
or another to foster unity in the face of crisis, whether it was to unite
a country under one King, bring a country together after years of civil
war, or instill hope after disastrous storms. Military and political leaders
throughout history have inspired their countrymen to achieve greatness
and overcome monumental disasters. One of the most stirring was from President
John F. Kennedy in his inauguration speech, "Ask not what your country
can do for you, but what you can do for your country".
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- "So here we are today, a country divided ideologically,
politically, spiritually and in some cases, militarily. We have fallen
into the quicksand of division to the point that we have lost our focus
on who we are, what we stand for and where we are going in the future.
Our core values and vision have been fogged over by greed, false promises
and blind belief in pied pipers who have turned out to not be the leaders
we hoped for, but those who had no interests save for their own gratification
and wealth. Does any of this sound familiar? We have been here before.
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- "Our present economic crisis has been the result
of many mistakes, not the least of which is blind trust in the belief that
persons in leadership positions always had our best interests at heart,
lending agencies and federal officials were persons of unquestioned honor,
and that our personal and national safety was never in peril. We dispatched
our representatives to the white castle in Washington, D.C. with the cloak
of trustworthiness and the jaded belief that we could sit back and enjoy
life, uninhibited by worry for our futures. It has not turned out that
way at all.
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- "In the face of major deficits in the upcoming Colorado
State budget, and a higher education system, increasingly unaffordable
for many in-state United State Citizens, we have Chris (Son of Roy) Romer
introducing Senate Bill 09-170 that would extend in-state college tuition
to illegal immigrants. Illegal Immigration has already had in some cases
a crippling affect on our economy. Jobless rates are increasing on a daily
basis and will continue to do so for some time yet.
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- "Three, and maybe more of President Obama's nominations
for cabinet positions have been caught in the press limelight for failure
to pay taxes over extended periods of time. The stimulus package has enough
pork in it to choke any intrinsic value for its proposed success. The
student loan scam has corrupted many bankers and politicians, and China,
along with Japan, has a strangle hold on the financial future of the United
States, along with plans to bankrupt our seaports, and our longshoremen
by sending all of their goods from America. Manufacturers are revamping
ports in Mexico and up through the proposed Canamex highways to be sold
for pennies on the dollar back to us and make the U.S.A. more indebted
to a communist nation. I got a headache thinking about this and an even
bigger one writing about it.
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- ""Where does it stop?" This is just
a small look into the maze of issues facing us today. Looked at as singular
issues, they don't seem to be that bad. Viewed together they form a very
grim picture of the future of this country. The result of these and many
other serious cracks in our resolve for a better America, is to further
divide this country and its citizens to the point of making a North American
Union more palatable and appealing to its citizens. Possibly our only
survival, if that possibility still exists.
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- "Our trusted and misguided leaders have set the
stage for the collapse of the United States as a sovereign nation right
under our noses, and in many cases without congressional review, citizen
awareness or input."
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- How will Obama undermine the American way of life with
his push for open borders, unlimited immigration and loss of our culture?
With the next added 100 million Americans, expect over 100 languages to
displace English as our national language. Expect incompatible cultures
to create Balkanized sections separating from the American way of life.
Expect accelerating environmental problems from sheer 'overshoot' and
overload via hyper-population growth.
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- Frosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six continents
from the Arctic to the South Pole as well as six times across
the USA, coast to coast and border to border. In 2005, he bicycled from
the Arctic Circle, Norway to Athens, Greece. He presents "The Coming
Population Crisis in America: and what you can do about it" to civic
clubs, church groups, high schools and colleges. He works to bring
about sensible world population balance at www.frostywooldridge.com He
is the author of: America on the Brink: The Next Added 100 Million
Americans. Copies available: 1 888 280 7715
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