I believe that 100 years from now Bush and Obama will be noted as the Presidents who transformed America and doomed her to a second world status. I look out on the fruited plain and I see too many ill symptoms facing America that the Roman Empire and every empire before us faced. The chief symptom is turning our back on Almighty God.
“Do not be
deceived, God is not mocked; whatever a man sows that he will also reap.” (Gal
.6:7) These words of the Apostle Paul could also be applied to the United
States of America; whatever a nation sows, that a nation will reap.
For nearly
one hundred years, the United States of America has led the world. Citizens of
the USA have enjoyed unprecedented levels of freedom and liberty, and the
highest standard of living ever experienced under human governance.
Could all of
that be slipping away?
In my
opinion, America is unraveling at a stunning speed and to a staggering degree.
This decline is breathtaking, and the prognosis is dim.
America is
in trouble. Consider the following:
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The national
debt of the USA is approaching 17 trillion dollars.
The
Congressional Budget Office estimates that the interest payments on our debt
will take up 36% of the budget in 2030, 58% in2040, and 85% in 2050.
Fears that
American bankruptcy has launched a thriving business in survival food, weapons,
and seeds in preparation for such a disaster.
Half of all
children born to women under the age of 30 are now illegitimate.
Maintaining
the present spending trend in the US will require doubling of all federal taxes
to maintain theoretical solvency, according to the IMF.
Fewer
Americans are working today than in 2000.
America lost
its AAA financial rating and no one is discussing how to get it back.
Forty-seven
percent of Americans do not pay income taxes.
Congress has
a 15% approval rating.
1 in 16
Americans receives disability payments from the government. That figure is up
from 1 in 36 in 1992.
Fears of a
societal breakdown drove firearm sales to the highest level in 2012.
The US is
unable to control its borders and vast numbers of illegal aliens continue to
enter the country.
The erosion
of constitutional rights and widespread governmental corruption has caused many
to lose faith in American leadership.
“The United
States faces a world that is ever more dangerous, with the looming specter of a
nuclear armed Iran and Saudi Arabia, mounting turmoil in North Africa, a resurgent Russia, a rising and authoritarian China, and a malevolent and rogue
state in North Korea”.
The present
administration lacks a coherent long term vision for maintaining America’s place
as the world’s superpower.
Around the
world, many are baffled by events in the United States. Suddenly, the country
seems out of control. The economy is in the doldrums and the political system
is dysfunctional and paralyzed.
In
addition, corporate corruption and greed contribute to the decline in the
economy of the nation and the individual.
How do
American’s feel about the position of the United States at home and on the
world stage?
A recent Pew
Research poll reports that a majority 53% see the US as playing a less
influential role in the world than it did a decade ago. When asked if they
believed that the US is less respected in the world? 70 % responded in the
affirmative.
Certainly,
the United States has faced many challenges in the past. Two World Wars, the
Great Depression, four notable assassinations in the 1960’s, the Vietnam War,
and Watergate in the 1970’s, all tested the strength and resilience of America.
The
successful OPEC oil embargo temporarily disrupted the economy of the US and
recurrent high inflation and economic recessions have challenged the country.
Historically,
the nation has overcome these many challenges and maintained its preeminence.
Many of the
world’s people have looked to the United States for leadership and seen it as
beacon of hope. Immigrants continue to pour across American borders in hopes of
a better life.
But still, a
quiet voice inside the ears of American’s whispers that something is just not
right. Perhaps, the USA’s declining influence is due to its declining
dependence upon the Creator and Sustainer of the country. Could it be that as
we have retreated from dependence upon Him that our situation at home and on
the world stage has diminished?
In 1778,
James Madison reminded the country that” we have staked the whole future of the
American civilization, not upon the power of the government…but upon our
capacity to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.”
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