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Originally Posted by ilovetv
Our fiscal problems are profound, but they are not the root of our nation's problems.
Our fiscal problems are deeply rooted in a crisis of morality.
Amoral leadership and lack of moral foundation in the individual members of both the Congress and the Presidency are the bigger problems.
The Puritan ethics of hard work and THRIFT were a large part of what made this country great.
These values stated by Benjamin Franklin are completely missing from today's Congress and Presidency, and this is why we have this fiscal cancer spreading through our nation's body:
"A penny saved is a penny earned.
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
He that lieth down with Dogs, shall rise up with Fleas.
God helps them that help themselves.
from Algernon Sidney (1622–1683)
Work as if you were to live a hundred years,
Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
At the signing of the Declaration of Independence
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power."
Hollywood Greed has succeeded in debasing America's thought, work ethic and sense of fiscal responsibility.
Hollywood Greed funds politicians.
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I sure agree with that. It probably doesn't get anywhere near enough discussion or attention. It's too bad when movie characters like Jerry McGuire ("...show me the money!") and Gordon Gecko ("...greed is good.") are popular heros with our young people. It's going to take a long time to turn that around. Maybe a meltdown of our financial system like what's going on in Greece will force people to get a job--any kind of a job--with getting very, very hungry as the only alternative. Maybe that wouldn't be such a bad thing.