PoliticalChic
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12. From a nation designed for 'a moral and religious people' to one designed for a materialist lot......what happened?
In "Uncle Sam's Plantation: How Big Government Enslaves America's Poor and What We Can Do About It," Star Parker explains what happened to America...
There is the passage from Genesis 25:29-34, which accurately describes the cultural shifts that took place during the Great Depression. Read this, and replace "Jacob" with "Uncle Sam," "Esau," with "the People," and "birthright," with "freedom."
29 Once when Jacob was cooking some stew,Esau came in from the open country,famished.30 He said to Jacob, “Quick, let me have some of that red stew!I’m famished!”
31 Jacob replied, “First sell me your birthright.”
32 “Look, I am about to die,” Esau said. “What good is the birthright to me?”
33 But Jacob said, “Swearto me first.” So he swore an oath to him, selling his birthrightto Jacob.
34 Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew.He ate and drank, and then got up and left.
So Esau despised his birthright.
So, as a result, corrosive indolence warped a once healthy work ethic, and a new cultural ideal took hold in society. Once the needy got a taste of government handouts, the genie was out of the bottle.
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness became the expectation of government obligation to provide happiness to everyone. Dependence begat a lower echelon of faithful voter. Politicians advanced the idea that the alleviation of poverty was the sole responsibility of politicians.
What Tocqueville had predicted came to pass.
In "Uncle Sam's Plantation: How Big Government Enslaves America's Poor and What We Can Do About It," Star Parker explains what happened to America...
There is the passage from Genesis 25:29-34, which accurately describes the cultural shifts that took place during the Great Depression. Read this, and replace "Jacob" with "Uncle Sam," "Esau," with "the People," and "birthright," with "freedom."
29 Once when Jacob was cooking some stew,Esau came in from the open country,famished.30 He said to Jacob, “Quick, let me have some of that red stew!I’m famished!”
31 Jacob replied, “First sell me your birthright.”
32 “Look, I am about to die,” Esau said. “What good is the birthright to me?”
33 But Jacob said, “Swearto me first.” So he swore an oath to him, selling his birthrightto Jacob.
34 Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew.He ate and drank, and then got up and left.
So Esau despised his birthright.
So, as a result, corrosive indolence warped a once healthy work ethic, and a new cultural ideal took hold in society. Once the needy got a taste of government handouts, the genie was out of the bottle.
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness became the expectation of government obligation to provide happiness to everyone. Dependence begat a lower echelon of faithful voter. Politicians advanced the idea that the alleviation of poverty was the sole responsibility of politicians.
What Tocqueville had predicted came to pass.