I'm sure that there are a few of you who will not agree with this essay but it does express exactly how I feel and I am not ashamed to admit it. Also, this may sound a bit selfish but I thank God every day that I was born and raised in a time that I could enjoy freedoms that, unfortunately, my children and grandchild will not experience. And for that I am truly saddened. I personally do not know the author of this writing but I thought that it was profound and I want to share it with you.
REQUIEM FOR A NATION
Requiem is defined as a prayer for the dead.
On Tuesday November 4, 2008, we were witness to the death of our nation, as
we have known it for these 233 years since 1775. This was a long, slow, and
painful death from a disease known by various names; Socialism, Marxism, and
Communism. They are all one and the same, they give power and control over
the populace to a small group of people. This country first really
contracted this disease in 1933 when Franklin D. Roosevelt took office as
President of these United States of America, and it has progressed until the
present. Yes, there were periods of time when we were in remission, Ronald
Reagan and Newt Gingrich come to mind, but basically the country has been
infected with this disease for a long time. In the 1930s Harry Hopkins said
to FDR, “tax, tax, spend, spend, elect, elect, and the people are too
damned dumb to understand what’s happeningâ€. This is what has happened to
us.
Our demise was foretold in 1776, in a book by a Scottish historian named
Alexander Fraser Tytler, at Edinburg University. In that book, he wrote the
following passage.
" A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only
exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse (
generous benefits ) from the public treasury.
From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates
promising them the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result
that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed
by a dictatorship.
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.
These nations have progressed through this sequence:
From bondage to spiritual faith: from spiritual faith to great courage;
from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to
selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy;
from apathy to dependence; from dependence back into bondage."
Professor Tytler was not writing of the fledgling United States, we were not
even a recognized country at that point in time. The title of his book was
“The Decline And Fall Of The Athenian Republicâ€, written about the Athenian
Republic, some 2,000 years earlier. For anyone not believing this, do a
Google on Alexander Frasier Tytler, and find the link to Edinburg
University. We have seen that our elected representatives, both in the
House and Senate, learned well the benefits of promises, as have
Presidential candidates, whether or not they intend to honor those promises.
Our country was founded by Christian men, on Christian principles. Hard
work, success, saving, and charity were encouraged, personal charity, not
the forced charity of the government taking something from one group to give
another group. The Constitution set forth equality of opportunity, but not
equality of result, which was left to personal initiative and hard work.
On November 4, 2008, Barack Hussein Obama was elected President of The
United States of America. During his two year long campaign, he told us
much of what his philosophy of government is, raise taxes on several things,
dividends, capital gains, and inheritance taxes.When Steven Joseph
Wurzelbacher, Joe the plumber, asked a totally unscripted question about
taxes, Obama said “ I don’t mean to punish your success, but we must insure
that those below you have a chance to succeed, too. When you spread the
money around, everybody benefitsâ€. (author’s note: Except the poor sucker
that took the risk and earned the money). He might as well have opened The
Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx in 1848, to the page where it says “we
shall take from those that have, and give to those that have notâ€. Couple
that with his wife’s comment in New York City on October 15th, 2008, “The
truth is, in order to get things like universal health care, and a revamped
education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of the
pie, so that someone else can have moreâ€, then we can see another idea
straight out of the Socialist/Communist playbook, that economics are a Zero
Sum arrangement. There is only so much money, if someone makes money, it
takes money from someone else.
We have heard much about how the current economic situation was brought
about by
“the failed economic policies of George Bushâ€. The original meltdown was
started by the sub-prime mortgage crisis, when Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
went belly up. The reason for this was brought about by the Community
Reinvestment Act, or CRA, of 1977, and strengthened in 1999. Every time
anyone voiced concerns about these operations needing investigation or more
oversight, they were shouted down by Barney Frank, and Chris Dodd, in the
House and Senate respectively. Maxine Waters also got into the act,
praising Fannie and Freddie for the wonderful job they were doing of getting
unqualified people into their own home. Franklin Raines was praised for the
good work of Fannie, and it went under. NINJA loans, No Income, No Job or
Assets, given to people on the basis of counting welfare payments and
unemployment checks as income to qualify for a loan. Anyone doubting this
can do as I did, do the research. Ain’t Google wonderful?
Barack Hussein Obama has told us, with his own words, out of his own mouth,
and from his pen in his writings, what his philosophy of government is.
Redistribution of wealth through taxation. In 2001, when he was in the
Illinois Senate, he appeared on a call in radio show for a Chicago station
where he expressed disappointment with the Supreme Court, in either the
Warren or Marshall era, that the Court had not done enough to bring
“redistributive†changes. In other words, he expected the Supreme Court,
through rulings, to take money from those that earn it, and give it those
who don’t work. He has also been recorded as saying that the Constitution
does not say anything about what the government is going to do for us, only
what the government can’t do to us, which is simply not true, all one has to
do is read the Constitution.
He has said that there will be no off-shore, or on-shore, drilling for oil,
and there will be no coal fired steam generators built because he will
impose regulations that will bankrupt the builders, and that the cost of
electricity will rise dramatically as a result.
Over the past 75 years welfare has fostered class warfare where one segment
of the population has been told that the “rich†owe them a living, until
they believe it. For the “have nots†this is a good thing. For Obama it
was a good thing, it enabled him to get more control of more people.
There is very little personal opinion stated here, all of this can be
verified if one deigns to spend the effort to research these historical
facts. I did.
OPINION
The majority always votes for the candidates promising them the most
benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always
collapses over loose fiscal policy.
With B. Hussein Obama in command, and with his willing accomplices Nancy
Pelosi, and Harry Reid in the House and Senate, we have witnessed the demise
of our country as we know it, we should all say a prayer for the dead. To
my Jewish friends, please say Kaddish for the country, it died on November
4th, 2008.
William P. Mangum, Jr.
Decatur, GA
billmangum@earthlink.net
