Procrastination

Charlie Daniels Soapbox
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The nation that was passed on to my generation by the proceeding one certainly had its problems, but they passed along a free nation on the edge of an industrial boom and a technological explosion that would make America the envy of the world.

The new generation rolled up its sleeves and got on with the business at hand, dealing with segregation, building the interstate system, space exploration and the cure for a myriad of heretofore in curable diseases.

We maintained a strong military and many of the old family dynasties that had for generations held a strangle hold on whole communities were broken up as the wealth was passed to siblings who had no interest in maintaining the status quo.

The work ethic that had sustained America for a century and a half and the sense of self-responsibility were alive and well and a man who fathered a child and abandoned them or refused to support their families were pariahs and welfare was doled out only to people in dire need.

My generation made a lot of mistakes, Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, Richard Nixon taking the nation off the gold standard and a myriad of miscalculations and downright power grabs, seeds that have germinated and caused a lot of damage to the nation.

But having said that, I believe that the years under my generation's watch at least maintained the American dream and passed it on to the present generation.

I can't help but wonder what this present generation is leaving for the next one or if there will indeed even be a recognizable America to pass on.

The status quo is totally unsustainable as the ratio of workers to entitlement recipients
shrinks every day.

The massive national debt that could well be unpayable is not even being dealt with and grows by catastrophic proportions hourly and the only answer Obama can come up with is to borrow more money to throw down the black hole Washington has created.

The government stupidly continues to place restrictive regulations on free enterprise driving manufacturing to foreign shores while the American corporate tax base continues to dissolve.

What kind of tax burden will the next generation have to bear, what will be their quality of life and what will a post Obama American look like.

What toll will Obamacare take on America, a bill of goods that has been sold as a great humanitarian gesture when it is nothing more than a giant step toward socialism and totalitarian government, passed by the traitors in Congress who won't even have to live under it.

No matter what happens, when the Fed has printed so much money that rampant inflation goes into high gear, when the government has borrowed all the money anyone will let them have, when the facade falls and all the smoke and mirrors disintegrate and the fiscal house of cards comes tumbling down, the entitlement community is going to have their benefits drastically reduced or eliminated.

What will happen, will they take to the streets to whip the dead horse of our economy, will they demand that the haves immediately share what they have with the have-nots, will they rampage through the cities creating chaos only to find out that their efforts have been in vain, that the goose is really dead this time, the cupboard is bare, that party is finally over, that the big socialistic balloon has burst and it's raining all over the world.

America is stumbling; I pray to God that she doesn't fall.

What do you think?

Pray for our troops, and for our country.

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels