Article link to "
America in Decline, The Soul-Crushing Despair of Lowered Expectations." By Michael Snyder. Published on The Economic Collapse Blog Tuesday, June 05, 2012. Republished on Prison Planet Wednesday, June 06, 2012.
Snyder sums up the way many Americans and people in other countries are feeling. Looking for jobs is hard enough. Keeping them is even harder. And finding jobs that are careers, or work that we love, can prove elusive.
The comment section incudes posts. Here is one of many:
SidDavis June
5th, 2012 at 6:10 pm
When government runs the economy what they produce is poverty for the many.
If this isn’t the time to consider the words of the Declaration of Independence,
I don’t know when would be more appropriate:
“That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it
is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new
Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers
in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and
Happiness.”
Commentary
Many of the comments offer advice in these times. Keep going. Look for worth within yourself. Keep the American Dream, which is a dream for the peace and prosperity of the whole world, alive, and keep the dreams alive in all of us, especially the young people and kids. They have a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The tyrants effecting the chaos are nothing more than bullies, and crazies, who will try to become our masters. Many people confuse these tyrants with politicans, who are our servants. When people as a group realize that many political positions are used by bullies to rule US and the world, then We the People can end the suffering, and return to receiving the fruits of our labor.
Thomas Paine's Common Sense, published in 1776, effected the American Revolution.
Paine viewed our trouble through a summary of the situation. If there is trouble, it's because "we furnish the means by which we suffer." That means we can fix it.
"Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamities is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer! Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise. For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform, and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest; and this he is induced to do by the same prudence which in every other case advises him out of two evils to choose the least. Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others."
References
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"America in Decline, The Soul-Crushing Despair of Lowered Expectatio
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." By Michael Snyder.Published on The Economic Collapse Blog Tuesday, June 05, 2012.
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Article link to "
America in Decline, The Soul-Crushing Despair of Lowered Expectations." By Michael Snyder.Published on The Economic Collapse Blog Tuesday, June 05, 2012. Republished on Prison Planet Wednesday, June 06, 2012.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/america-in-decline-the-soul-crushing-despair-of-lowered-expectations.html
