Your parents and grandparents were "greedy bastards"?
The quote above was a response to a comment by TexUs who blamed the current political, financial, and military debauchery on the generation of FDR.
During the Roosevelt administration, there were a multitude of financial restraints placed upon banks and speculators of finance and agricultural futures.
World War II ended with a ten year celebration. I still remember all the parades and accolades that Americans showered upon themselves in the late 40's and throughout the 50's. The problem with all the celebrating was that Americans forgot two things.
#1.
Liberty requires eternal vigilence; INTERNALLY as well as externally.
While we were keeping a close eye on the Communists, our own military and giant corporations were eating away at our innards like termites. President Eisenhower warned us about it in his final address in January 1960, but by then America was too drunk on war and unfettered self-esteem to listen.
#2
The power of true religion and of God's justice.
The church in the wealthiest country on the planet grew deaf to invitations to return to God. It even opposed and suppressed the great revival sent by God in the late 60's. Instead of minding the doctrines of Christ, the church became ingrown and concerned with fleshly issues and the politics of man.
During the Reagan administration, all the regulations and restrictions on the banks, the super rich, and the speculators were removed. The effect was almost immediate. By September 1985 the uS Commerce department announced that the united States had become a debitor nation. From that time until now our financial debacle has increased in enormity. Despite his Hollywood good looks and presence, the 40th president of the united States was little more than a mental midget dancing like a puppet at the whim of his financial and political betters.
We stand today, not on the shoulders of the enormous achievements of the FDR generation, but beneath the boot of the oppressors of our own era. Americans still refuse to deny the facts that history teaches and continue in partisan bickering, much to the amusement of our ruling oligarchy. We are where we are because we continue to believe the propaganda that the united States is and always has been a righteous and just nation. Nothing could be further from the truth. Ask the poor of this country, ask those who are non-white, ask those who have been trampled by the system, ask ANYBODY else with an ounce of knowledge of our history and they will tell you a truth you will never believe.
We have passed the time of warnings from God and man and must now drink the vintage of the fruit of divine judgment; for our arrogance - constant war, for our indifferent attitude toward God - godless enemies who attack us like locusts within and without.
Today we stand alone and naked in our conceited pride. We are without true friends in the world and are being stripped of our financial and military might. Confusion is everywhere. Uncle Sam reels like a man who's been hit in the head with a baseball bat.
The answer as always is humble repentance and petition to God for deliverance AS A NATION. Will we do it? No.
Godless men in America multiply like rats in a sewer while true believers sit in their Sunday pews waiting to be 'beamed out' before things get really sticky.
Do we suffer today because of the FDR generation or because of the Democrats or Republicans OR Radical Muslims?
We suffer because as a nation the united States has thumbed its collective nose at God.
God has responded with the cup of judgment.
Deny it if you will, but drink it we shall.
