The economy is not the only thing that is wrong with America. In order for a society to function smoothly, people need to be able to trust one another and be able to expect that most of their fellow citizens will behave in a somewhat civilized manner. Unfortunately, we are starting to see the very fabric of our society slowly unravel all over the nation. The truth is that America is becoming a very heartless place. People simply do not care about one another the way that they used to in this country. Of course there are many exceptions, but the reality is that millions of hearts are going cold from coast to coast. In America today, we are more self-absorbed than ever, more self-centered than ever, and we are more isolated from others than ever. Just think about the number of people that you personally interact with on a regular basis. Unless you are involved with a very large organization such as a school or a church, it is probably a very limited number. Our addiction to entertainment gives us the illusion of being connected to society, but the truth is that Americans spend less time personally interacting with one another than ever before. Meanwhile, Americans are seemingly becoming more arrogant, more prideful, more angry, more brutal, more greedy and more addicted to pleasure than ever before. When you combine millions of very cold hearts with an economy that is rapidly crumbling, that adds up to a whole lot of trouble in the years ahead.
Even government authorities are becoming heartless. TSA agents and police officers are actually trained to "act tough" and to bark orders at us. In the old days, you could reason with a police officer, but these days if you try to talk common sense with some of these thugs you will get tasered before you even realize what is happening.
The American people can see the deep corruption in Washington D.C. and throughout most of our other major institutions and they wonder why they should keep trying to do "the right thing".
If our leaders are selfish and heartless, then it is only natural that millions of average Americans will follow their examples.
In America today, we are taught to hate one another. Democrats are taught to hate Republicans and Republicans are taught to hate Democrats. We are a deeply divided nation and our hearts are getting colder with each passing year.
Parents are becoming more cruel, thieves are becoming more bold and thugs are becoming more brutal. Hate, anger and frustration are fueling some really twisted behavior all over the country. America is changing, and not for the better.
The following are 19 signs that America is becoming a very heartless place....
#1 At one airport in Hawaii, TSA agents recently required one new mother to go to a public restroom and fill up the empty baby bottles she was carrying with breast milk before they would allow her to get on to her flight. The following is how one local news station described the incident....
She claims agents told her she couldn't take the pump on the plane because the bottles in her carry-on were empty.
"I asked him if there was a private place I could pump and he said no, you can go in the women's bathroom. I had to stand in front of the mirrors and the sinks and pump my breast in front of every tourist that walked into that bathroom. I was embarrassed and humiliated and then angry that I was treated this way.
When the bottles were full, she was allowed back on the plane.
#2 One way that a society is judged is by how it treats children. Unfortunately, stories such as the following one from Texas are becoming increasingly common in America today....
Texas authorities said Tuesday they removed 11 children from a crowded home where a registered sex offender lives after they found eight confined in a small, dark bedroom with restraints tying some to their beds.
Along with the children, 10 adults were living in the one-story, 1,700-square-foot home in Dayton, about 30 miles northeast of Houston, Child Protective Services spokeswoman Gwen Carter said. One month after a raid on the house, authorities are still trying to determine how the children are related and why they were there, she said.
#3 Across the United States, there have been an increasing number of reports of teens randomly attacking people on the street for no apparent reason whatsoever. In some cases, the victims are actually being pulled out of their vehicles. The following recent example comes from Philadelphia....
IN A HORRIFIC assault in Center City on Saturday night, three teenagers who were spouting racial slurs pulled a man out of a cab to beat him. And when the cabdriver intervened to stop the assault, the teens turned their rage on him, police said yesterday.
#4 One man down in Arizona was recently charged with skinning and eating a cat. He told authorities that he did it because he was "hungry".
#5 In the Detroit area, an 86-year-old World War II veteran was recently brutally carjacked in the middle of the day at a gas station. His leg was broken during the assault, and as he slowly crawled across the concrete parking lot many people walked by him and drove by him as if he was not even there.
#6 One 69-year-old woman down in Texas recently went without running water for six years and nobody ever helped her out until just recently.
#7 In Ohio, one man has been charged with raping three children that he adopted and with allowing other men to have sex with them as well.
#8 One man down in Texas was recently fined by the city government for not mowing the lawn of a house that he had already lost to foreclosure.
#9 These days thieves will steal anything that is metal that they think that they can resell. In the Philadelphia area recently, there has been a rash of brass door knocker thefts. Thieves have been going up and pulling them right off of the front doors of private homes.
#10 As the price of gasoline rises, gasoline thieves are becoming more creative. The following is a recent example from the Tampa Bay area....
As gas thefts go, this one was deceptively elaborate.
Inside a blue Chevrolet Venture minivan, criminals had cut out a large hole in the floorboard and set up a portable pumping station, complete with power source, pump and plastic container.
The goal: to steal hundreds of gallons of gas pulled directly from the gas station's underground storage tank and funneled into a plastic tank inside the van.
Gasoline thefts have become so common in Detroit that one city councilman wants to force gas station owners to hire security guards.
#11 One 29-year-old female tutor was recently arrested for having a sexual relationship with a 12-year-old boy that she was supposed to be tutoring.
#12 The ACLU is trying to force one library district in Washington state to allow full public access to pornography on library computers - even if children will be walking by and able to see what is going on.
#13 In America today, a lot of parents are becoming extremely cruel. Down in Alabama, one 9-year-old girl recently died after being forced by her mother and grandmother to run for three hours straight as punishment for lying about having eaten some candy bars.
#14 Some Americans have become so desperate that they are trying to get sent to prison on purpose. For example, one ex-police officer in Georgia recently robbed a bank and allowed authorities to catch him so that he could get food, shelter and free medical care in jail.
#15 What can account for the rash of seemingly random violent crimes that we have been seeing lately? Over near Seattle, an 88-year-old man and an 83-year-old woman were brutally attacked by a 31-year-old man armed with a crossbow and a hatchet for no apparent reason whatsoever....
Prosecutors say 31-year-old John Chase was walking down the highway when he saw Ralph Aldrich, 88, in his back yard. Detectives say Chase shot and killed Aldrich with a crossbow and then went inside the home and repeatedly hit 83-year-old June Aldrich with a hatchet.
#16 In America today, many people are so angry and so frustrated that even the slightest provocation can push them over the edge. For example, one man in Georgia actually firebombed a Taco Bell because they did not put enough meat in his Chalupa.
#17 These days Americans are having a hard time feeling safe in their own homes. Down in Maryland, one very sick home invader was recently sentenced to 100 years in prison for doing some very twisted things....
In one case, authorities said, he sexually assaulted a 17-year-old girl after breaking into her family's Fort Washington home with a cinder block and forced her to pose nude on a bed as he took photographs and videos of her. Authorities said in another case, Scott and an accomplice, Marcus Dermanellian Hunter – who has already pleaded guilty to federal firearms charges – held up a Bowie family at gunpoint in April 2009, used their debit cards to steal money from ATM machines and then stole a luxury car.
#18 In America today you never know who is going to come driving up to you on the street. Most of the time people that you meet will be at least somewhat "normal", but there is also a chance that the next strangers that you run into will be crack-fueled perverts. Unfortunately, that is exactly what happened to a Montana teacher named Sherry Arnold...
Spell and Waters had left Colorado days before the crime claiming they wanted work in eastern Montana and western North Dakota's oil fields.
After smoking crack cocaine over the entire trip, Waters allegedly told Spell the drug 'brought the devil out in him' and began talking about kidnapping and killing a female, AP reports.
After they spotted Arnold, Spell claims that Waters told him to 'grab the lady' and pull her into their Ford Explorer as she jogged by.
After they got her into the Ford Explorer, they choked the life out of her and then buried her body in a shallow grave in North Dakota.
#19 In the Boston area, the FBI recently used a chainshaw to cut through the front door of one apartment during a raid. They quickly subdued the woman living inside and had her on the floor for 35 minutes as her young daughter cried out to her. Eventually they figured out that they had the wrong apartment and they issued a "routine apology" to the woman.
As our country falls apart all around us, there is going to be a greater need for love and compassion than ever before.
Don't count on the government to help those in need. The government always does a miserable job of that.
As I have written about previously, already more than 40 percent of all children in Atlanta and more than 50 percent of all children in Detroit are living in poverty.
In the years ahead those numbers are going to get even worse.
But it isn't just in the major cities where poverty is exploding. Sadly, today one out of every four children in the United States is on food stamps.
As times get tough, you have two choices.
You can allow your heart to grow cold like so many other people are doing.
Or you can decide that you are going to become more loving and more compassionate than ever before.
America is becoming a very heartless place, and unfortunately there is no sign that trend is going to turn around any time soon.
But you don't have to become heartless.
Be a light that shines in the darkness.
In the end, you will be glad that you were.
There was also the school shooting in Chardon Ohio where 3 kids got killed. Both the shooter’s parents have been arrested on domestic violence charges in the past.
The situation continues to get worse and worse in Greece as well.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/05/greek-debt-crisis-komotini-rock-bottom-debt-crisis-industry_n_1320248.html
“Things in Komotini appeared to hit rock bottom last week, when an unemployed man burst into the factory that laid him off and shot his former boss and another worker, injuring them both.”
“Stunned disbelief soon turned into sympathy in a town where one in four residents is unemployed”
I am more convinced than ever, that Americans are very happy to throw their fellow American under the bus. The numerous lawsuits, arrests, police, crimes again shows, incarceration. You dont have to go to school or university to get ahead, as long as you can arrange for the arrest of your neighbor. The more people arrested and booked with criminal records, the better chance you have of locking in a that nice paying job, with no talent. Winning by elimination of competition. The employers discrimination by arrest record will become a problem when 45 million americans already have arrest record, and a growing trend.
I take of self and family, the world is left to fend for itself.
Tony Lamb. You have watched too many disney shows. A weasel that weighs a pound will get in a chicken coop and kill 20 6 lb hens in one night. Eight wolves killed 38 sheep in Wyoming in one night. I have had a coyote kill 2 8lb lambs and eat the heart and lungs from one, that might total 8 oz. I do not try to put human emotions to animals but those killings are not about hunger or defense. You need to watch a cat torture a mouse before you put noble attribute to animals.
every mouse/rodent one of my cats kills outside is one less that I will have to deal with inside.
Every baby rabbit my cats kill is one less that will chew up my prize shrubs.
So make your chicken coop weasel-proof and house your lambs where wolves and coyotes can’t reach them.
Duh.
Of course, you can feel “manly” for killing animals with a gun. Works best if you’re a spindly, terrified excuse for a human male, and are trying to prove how tough you are by murdering animals that aren’t trying to hurt you.
Killing animals for pleasure, while claiming it’s to “protect your stock” — that’s about as juvenile and insensitive as the examples Michael listed in the main essay.
Maybe you should stop moving to places where wolves, weasels and coyotes live, or maybe you should stop trying to “harvest” your “livestock” and instead figure out how to live in harmony with other living creatures?
Or maybe you’re just an arrogant little weasel of a man yourself?
Karl, your such a liberal ***************
I figured this was the new normal. Heartless and cold is normal for the single person, it’s a quieter life, and you can do more for others than focusing on a family you can’t afford anyways.
C: I agree, many cannot afford or want a family. The kids living in poverty mentioned in article had parents that are ignorant jerks and breed like dogs and cats, unable to care for them. Scum of the earth; ditto for third world parents with starving kids.
#20: comments like Laura McDonough’s
The only way to deal with the issues of America is to travel to the Washintgon, D.C. area and worship and praise president Obama and make him God. Obama will be Lord of the world on October 21st of this year and that is good news gospel of Obama. We all need to read the gospel of Obama and make him God.
“I wonder if this happens in rich European countries?”
In response to “cletus van damme”, I live in Bordeaux. I am French, off course, and I can tell you that for the moment we have no problems, in France, concerning violence.
We have some strikes sometimes because the people are unemployed (10% unemployed). We have, off course stealers, and gangsters, like everywhere, I suppose.
But the difference with American people is may be due to the fact that European people has not the right to possess a weapon, as guns.
It’s very important, I think so !
In France we have also social aids for everybody in need. Everyone, also, subscribes for social insurances during the good economic period period, as retreats. The gainfully employed pays for the retreated).
So for the moment it’ OK in France. We will see after the presidential election, in may !!
Wait and see.
Excuse my poor english !
Thanks to Michael for all his so good analysis.
I think its too late to talk gun control in the US. The point has been crossed where people now need guns more than they want them.
Milou, you speak NOT the truth. Europeans can and do possess firearms. When I lived in Italy I got firearms permits for my guns and did target practice too. I also shot guns in Germany at an indoor range with my German friends who owned firearms. I don’t know about France, but I am sorry to inform you, but France IS NOT EUROPE.
Michael, thanks again for your work. as a recovering person I well know how selfish a person can be, I need but look in the mirror. I have learned that my only power for good is held in the manner I treat my fellow travelers. for the last 24 yrs I have given my time to those who are lost in selfishness. All I can do to change the world is to keep my side of the street clean. through chaos, I am calm. when angered I ask for peace. Yes the world is cold, but no more than ever. Each day I am given a choice, do I put my needs, wants, wishes, ahead of others? Or do I wish to be at peace. Today I am at peace.
Matt, i know where you are coming from because the greatest gift my mother ever taught me was to always show compassion to my fellow man or woman. I have to be politically correct.If it doesn’t give you a warm feeling inside when you help someone in need i believe you may be giving for the wrong reason.She is 90 and always practiced what she preached.
I do not understand how #4 is cold unless he killed it in a tortuous manner.
“Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.” – Genesis 9:3
Sure sure. Except switch “cat” with “dog” and suddenly it’s a Federal case and a blight on mankind.
C’mon. Let’s not pretend there’s no double standard. Any animal on the planet is expendable except Fido, dangling his $85 custom Nikes out of the side of his $600 pet stroller.
“Police found 24-year-old Russell Christopher Hofstad inside with his face painted and the cat’s tail and intestines around his neck.
Hofstad told police he killed the cat because he was hungry. He also said he was going to use its skeleton as party decorations.”
Rancher, my feelings exactly!
I like looking at this blog but I don’t comment often. In my past I was well taught about the the bible and I don’t preach because most people just don’t want to hear it. I don’t go to the churches because it seems they haven’t read or don’t understand the bible. I don’t understand everything but when I see comments that are bible verses I skip them and think of Matthew 6:1&2. I had to look them up but I knew they were there! Also it seems that people have been predicting some sort of doom for some time now and nothing real big, I mean REALLY big, ever happens! I’m not one of the sheepele, no TV but I’ll watch some movies sometimes but no sports.I work one and a half jobs all with people and some of the stuff I see is amazing.Sometimes I wonder what has happened to the gene pool, but after about 6000 years or so it must be getting a little thin? The way some people act maybe THEY came from monkeys:) The bible does state rather plainly that satan is running the world and that is why its such a mess. As a mere human about I can do is keep watching as it seems spring is near and keep preping as best I can. I’m even going to enjoy life, its an adventure! Thank You for the interesting blog.
Stu:
Thank you for the great comment and I hope that you will post more often.
Michael
5000 years ago the people of Eqypt believed Horus and Set ran the world. They were the Son/Sun god and ruler of the ‘underworld’ of their time. Based on the story in the sky. Absolutely no different story than the Jesus/Satan story.
Yes, people have fallen in intelligence and morality. But what is sad is that the same exact delusion that stunts our growth now did it to humanity that long ago. Nothing has changed.
An alien observing Earth and its people would see some technological advances to be sure, but surely they would be amazed that after 5000 years the exact same superstitions are in place.
The only explanation for that is intentional deception. Perhaps as we passed from Taurus the Bull (why the cow is worshipped still today); to Aries (the lamb stories); to Pisces (the fisher of men) and eventually into the Aquarius (go into the house where a man shall be waiting bearing a pitcher of water …) there will be some allowed enlightenment. Probably not.
The only bull being passed here is’nt from the cosmos, it’s from you. I say it here all the time and I will say it again, please explain the origin of the universe without a creator ( an effect without a cause ). Until you can do that, your atheistic worldview has no credibility, because it takes far, far, far more faith, and completely blind faith at that, to believe the universe came from nothing, than that of a creator God.
Thank you for that useful pronouncement on the credibility of others, now you may go back to your spooks and hobgoblins.
Let me get this straight. Jesus/satan is a story, yet you believe in astrology (tarus, aries, pices, aquarius).
You are certainly a piece of work. You definetely need to know the true lamb of God, the ultimate fisher of men. May you seek, for if you do you WILL find.
No MBdeluded what is being said is that the whole Jesus story is based on the story of the Zodiac. Literally the one year journey of Jesus the SON of God is the travel thru the circular Zodiac and each of the 12 Houses.
Very simple once the delusion is peeled away.
Starts with John the Baptist/Aquarius. Many references in the bible to the ZODIAC.
The ZODIAC is the base story that is why there were 15 Jesus clones before him – same EXACT story.
Not hard – Son-Sun. He is the everlasting light. Light. Light. Light. Satan is dark. dark. dark.
Kindergarten stuff.
Delusion – clinging to a belief despite factual evidence to the contrary.
The christian religion is a parody on the worship of the Sun, in which they put a man whom they call Christ, in the place of the Sun, and pay him the same adoration which was originally paid to the Sun. – Thomas Payne
If your belief in your Santa gives you piece of mind and you cannot let go, fine, but please don’t spread the delusion.
Are you equating Jesus with astrology?!?!!
I think Horus is really Gog of Gog-Magog fame.
Duh….6,000 years. Try several million for evolution. Problems on this planet are caused by man and man alone. No mumbling to some imaginary deity will change anything. Religion is a easy excuse not to do anything and demonize those that do not ‘believe’ in fiction, fairy tales, etc.
As regards Americans and being nasty to each other that comes with the territory as once you have a focus on being a consumer its all about me and screw you. Communities have been destroyed.
I worked in the US a while ago and it staggered me how rude and selfish people are. These are minor things in life like being polite, pushing in, being appreciative of others, etc.
In my past I was well taught about the the bible and I don’t preach because most people just don’t want to hear it.
Thank you-are the rest of you listening???
The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws. ~Tacitus
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible. ~George Washington
We Are No Longer A Christian Nation. ~Barack Obama
The rising tide of selfishness and indifference in America should come as no surprise to anyone.
What Obama said was that we were no longer just a Christian nation, but a nation of many other faiths as well. Your right-wing quote is meant to twist his words. And if you ever bothered to read history, you’d find out that the Founding Fathers were deists and didn’t consider themselves Christians.
In fact, people like you who believe whatever they hear on Fox News or on Rush are one of the reasons there is no civility. I have heard Rush say that charity is a failed experiment throughout history. But I bet you don’t know that even cavemen took care of the elderly and sick.
Conservatives think it is a badge of honor for Michael to be quoted on Rush etc. I think it shows how far Michael has fallen.
Do not try to reason with conservatives. The study from Canada proved they are not able to understand complex ideas and are content to get their marching orders from fox and pill head bimbo.
Michael-I need to get you a clapper so you can say “help I’ve fallen and I can’t get up”
Beg to differ, Do your research in depth. YOU are misinformed
Wrong.
Have you bothered to read history?
Our Founding Fathers were a mixture of mostly Christians and a few deists.
Of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence only 3 were known deists and 14 were of undetermined faith. So even by simple math, of the known faiths, the majority of the signers were Christian.
Of the signers of the U.S. Constitution again only 3 are comfirmed historically as deists.
Of the signers of the Articles of Confederation there are NO HISTORICALLY VERIFIABLE DEISTS.
A secular study of our founding fathers shows the source most quoted from was the Christian Bible.
It is you who is trying to re-write our history to remove all mention of Christ.
Please stop.
This nation was colonized earlier by Christian pilgrims who sought religious freedom. They are the true founding fathers without whom this grand experiment would not have been attempted.
As to the twisting of Obama’s words. Your version of his words did not contradict the statement that Obama said “Whatever we were, we are no longer a Christian nation, at least, not just.”
Put a ‘just’ in there and it still means the same thing.
Whether he said “We are no longer a Christian nation ” or “We are no longer just a Christian nation” it means the same thing. That is the point GMA215 was making.
“…This nation was colonized earlier by Christian pilgrims who sought religious freedom….”
for themselvers, others? not so much
cave dwellers also ate the lame and non-hackers when they were hungry enough, or when it simply suited them. Maybe the charity they displayed was simply a fattening-up procedure.
The article’s picture is of chemtrails after they have been dispersed – those are not real clouds.
Spraying those things has got to be considered pretty heartless too.
A lot of people that are alive now, have become more heartless than they used to be, because of the actions of a few who were probably born without one.
I thought is was Magog leaving the chem trails???
Or maybe it’s either Beavis or Butthead leaving them.
“but the truth is that Americans spend less time personally interacting with one another than ever before”.
It’s the big gool.
Hey Michael, did you hear about the detroit 300? There is a group of older black men, getting ready to tackle the violence on the streets. I warned young people to stop messing with older folk, now, there is a powder keg in detroit.
I have heard of them. I think we are going to see a lot more of that in the years ahead.
Michael
I believe there is going to be some law and order (not the show) restored when the older people start busting a cap in these heartless people. Soon or later, people are going to self regulate themselves when the police force start to layoff people and good people start taking up arms.
I surrendered my house back in 2007 and filed for chapter 7 bankrupcy in 2008. I still get $140 invoices from the city on a property I have not owned or occupied in over 5 years. I go to court every year and produce my Bankrupcy papers. The tickets get dismissed and we start the cycle over every 6-12 months. It puts the salt of shame in very old wounds that just want to heal. I drive by and see what was my home of 8 years become a someplace for folks to vandalize and steal(they took the A/C) what was once my castle. I look at it and do feel that deep sense of shame. I feel ashamed for my old neighbors that have to deal with it. They didn’t deserve this. I understand the city doesn’t want the neighborhood to become a slum. I understand way too much because I was raised to be a decent hard working person. That was where my kids lived. I listen to that old Smithereens song “House that we use to live in” and it strikes deep because it was written about the same subject. I can’t go back and change what happened. I feel down and then I get pissed off. You see times have gotten somewhat better but I had to crawl to get where I am today. I didn’t forget what happened I do what I can to help other families right on the edge. I cant shut my eyes to that pain. My girlfriend doesn’t understand why I put myself out there trying to help others at the expense of my well being. See if you been that low you never forget, and if you make through to the other side you are obligated to help others on the edge.
I interviewed Dimitri, who survived the collapsed of the USSR 20 years ago.
Old Man: When everything fell apart during the last days of the Soviet Union, things must be very scary. How did people survive?
Dimitri: Yes, things were scary but only to the ruling class in government. The rest of the population were short of food and lost jobs, but they were not scared. They stuck together, took care of each other, and pulled through. See, the Russian people is an old people full of history and terrible hardship. They dare not give up love.
Old Man: What do you think will happen to America?
Dimitri: America is still a very rich place with money and economy. But it is already dirt poor with culture, care and love. One big difference is, America has 200 million firearms belonging to the people. They have this culture where they start shooting the moment they feel like it. They are so common now, even the press ignore them. The country is numb to violence.
Old Man: So what are you saying?
Dimitri: I am saying I will measure America readiness to fix things by looking at how many wild and crazy shooting within the population.
Old Man: Like Syria, or Libya?
Dmintri: No. There, the government shoot people. Only in America you have people who love to shoot people.
Very frightening, concerning what lies in store for us.
It’s one thing for the government to have all the weapons. But when all your neighbors have guns as well… let’s just say, when the ship goes down, people will begin to turn on each other.
This will not be a birthday party.
I thk you hit the nail on the head – justamom. ps: you know there is no such thing as “JUST a mom” … Superwoman is more like it. God Bless.
She actually visited Russia and was given the title “Mother Hero” shortly after they got to know her.
Prov. 31:28
This is so true¡ I saw the untinkable here in the city of Guadalajara, Mexico. In the last 6 months I saw 2 US caucasian begers from USA, asking for sper money on the strett¡
Yes conservatives have made America a cold selfish place. Sickening.
I disagree. Conservatives care for their fellow man much more so than liberals. Evidence: Just examine who contributes to charities and who doesn’t. I believe it is a 9 to 1 ratio at least. It seems that liberals are always concerned with equalizing outcomes and wealth redistribution rather than creating an environment that encourages self-initiative, productive effort and self-responsibility. They believe that the idea that a successful person should fork over what they have earned to another less successful by the threat of force by government. Liberals like to take credit for doing something for the so-called downtrodden by employing government thugs as their enforcers. Amazing! It’s all about liberty and freedom people. Once you take away enough from the successful to deter him from producing, then he will simply not create anymore wealth to be plundered. I saw this trend since I was young, and yes, I’ve made several million over my lifetime, but now I’ve given up and say no more. I’m not going to bust my butt everyday to placate employees, bureaucrats and this lousy government anymore. Why should I work hard to earn 4 dollars and lose 2 of those dollars to government instead of my family? It makes no sense to work hard in such a country, when liberty is merely a slogan.
I almost forgot, with the estate tax at 45%, a man earns 4 dollars. He loses half by taxes in one form or another, leaving him 2 dollars. Then when he passes on, the government steals another dollar to fund its crap. Thus, a hard-working American man loses 3 out of every 4 dollars to a rapacious government that doesn’t care about this man’s family or those who depend upon them. A loss of 75% of one’s earnings to government sounds much worse than slavery to me! This nation is finished! Once I came to that conclusion I felt much better.
Our friend El Pollo has repeatedly said this was going to happen due to the extreme wealth and income inequality.
Sounds like most of these are the DPDDTT. Desperate People Doing Desperate Things Tax.
El Pollo can explain it better than me as he has been in many of the countries the USA (BRA) is turning into.
People should re-read his earlier posts.
Well spartans prepared for battle!!!!!!!!!!!!
As the saying goes there’s more than one way to skin a cat…we’ll have to change it now to “more than one way to skin a cat for breakfast”
Meanhwhile Laquisha et al and family are living fat off the government hogg, no problem…
come to new zealand, we chill in the beauty green land, we are brothers
The worse the economy gets the more desperate people get. Be prepared…food, gold, guns.
I know my thoughts on this are apt to provoke some nasty responses, but I’m going to add them anyway. Some of the reasons I think we’ve gotten to be a more heartless and/or less friendly and caring society are:
1. the one person commute to work & back – isolated in our cars
2. moms dumping their children into day care from a very early age, may not be properly bonding with the child – and yes, I know some people don’t have a choice
3. only children families prevail – why? You learn a lot about sharing and caring from your siblings, even tho as kids you may fight all the time
4. electronic devices – TV, the almighty cell phone and computers… a lot of people nowadays do very little face-to-face interaction with people. E-mail and texting really isn’t all that conducive to forming solid friendships
5. the public schools that are not only teaching socialism, but practising it. What I am referring to is teaching by “teams” with “team leaders” where the individual person’s contribution is credited to the group. A lot of people coming out of that kind of school system (most of who I work with) seem to me to be not only deeply insecure, but cut-throat competitive and will do any manner of sneaky things to get ahead.
This article described the dark side of the American people and the people in power. All the entertainment, internet, movies, sports activities from each day make people blind to their existence. It is sad.
You forgot to mention women who divorce their husbands (AT LEAST 80 percent of divorces are initiated by women) and then who financially destroy their ex husband in divorce court through alimony and support payments, and then destroy the man emotionally by kidnapping his children and refusing to allow him to have contact with his own children.
HOW COLD IS THAT? Women who use their children as a weapon against their ex husbands? And MILLIONS of AMERICAN WOMEN have done this!
Regarding #3: Some of the “teens” in these “random” attacks look to be in their 30′s and 40′s . It isn’t “teens” or “youths”, it’s BLACK PEOPLE.
And it isn’t “random” people they are attacking it’s WHITE PEOPLE.
Until this blog recognizes that race and demographics has played a key role in America’s downfall, I can’t take anything you write seriously.
It even says in the article you quoted that the “teens” were spouting racial slurs…..and you STILL can’t put 2 and 2 together?? “For no apparent reason whatsoever” WOW!!! That is so willfully ignorant I almost wonder if it’s meant to be satire.
Blacks have openly declared a race war on whites, and white people are still in la la land celebrating “diversity” and “colour blindness”.
If your foundation is not on the Rock (the Lord Jesus Chrsit) your foundation will fall. Gold will canker and rust, guns run out of ammo, food lasts but for a season. Place your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, repent of your sins, and follow Him. All else is sinking sand.
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Yeah, Sure. That’ll really help.
It’s a war between the rich and everyone else, the moral and the immoral, the atheist and the religious, the public unions and the taxpayers, etc… etc… etc…
We’re all close to going at each other’s throats. It will be interesting when the big fight finally kicks off.
I really don’t see the point of this article: taking a bunch of INCIDENTS and presenting them as proof of economic or social collapse is really short sighted. From the title I was interested to see what kind of “evidence” or statistics were available, but it seems you just waisted my time. I hope you can correct this by supplying me, and especially others feeling worried on where things are going, with some solid data and real information!
All the best, Peter (from The Netherlands, Europe)
Trying to tell people to “be good” and loving is like telling a blind person to choose the green one over the red one. Lousy example, I know, but the point is that people in desperation are incapable of being “good”…”There are none righteous, not one”. This country has turned away from God and we are reaping what we have sown. Unless we turn away from our wicked ways, we are doomed as a society, plain and simple. Michael, I know that you are a man of faith, so be bold and share with people the real way to being a kinder and loving person (hint: The Sinner’s Prayer). Mankind left to his own devices, has always led to destruction. No hope in that.
I used to work for a Catholic hospital in Colorado Springs, CO as a nurse. Four years ago, I came down with. A bad gall bladder. Of course, my job-provided health insurance required that I go to the same hospital that I worked at. That was OK but their surgeon botched the operation (missed a bile duct). I became septic, lapsed into a 28 day coma, on a respirator. Took another month to recover and re-learn how to walk. The day before I went home on a walker, they fired me, because I “could no longer do the work”! I’ve been paying for my family’s own health insurance ever since, out of our retirement savings. I JUST got word that I will get Social Security Disability. Now THAT is cold!
Matt RN
As times get tough, you have two choices.
You can allow your heart to grow cold, Or you can decide that you are going to become more loving…
i will continue to act when i see suffering or inhumanity, as i am sure all the commenter’s here will. regardless of the actual remarks posted by the readers, i am sure we were all offended and all here are the type that WILL NOT permit such cited instances to go “unrewarded”. i will not let my country go down the toilet without stepping up to aid someone who needs my help. political correctness be damned…i will call bullshit on bullshit when i see it.
let’s all resolve to be the end of this crap and make everyone accountable for their actions even if it means taking a risk and popping someone in the nose if necessary.
That photo of Santorum on Drudge Report is just sickening and disturbing.
these are the craziest stories in the news. THIS IS NOT THE NORM. You can’t live your lie based on fear. Yes, these things happen but that doesn’t mean that our country is really in terrible shape. Finacially yes we aren’t doing that well but crime has actually been on the decline for quite a while here.
People suppress the Truth and the result is a depraved mind. Read Romans Chapter one. God is not mocked. Whatsoever a man soweth that he shall also reap. THERE IS HOPE but it requires you to ask Jesus Christ to forgive you and be born again of the Spirit of God. Only God can restore a person and a nation to sanity.
This is what happens when we reject the truth and therefore lose our deductive thinking skills
http://sospression.com/2012/04/12/beginnings-matter-the-critical-importance-of-biblically-deductive-thought-processes/