Consumption age of alcohol has changed today in Virginia.
After 60 hours of debate, both the house and senate passed the measure to raise
the legal age from 19 to 21. Representative Hartley's bill came to a 55-40 vote
in the house and 18-12 in the senate.
Honor Society:
Alpha Alpha University Honor Society will be naming a select
few Liberty students this Friday at 10 am. The names of the 10 seniors, 20
juniors and five sophomores won't be reviled until the ceremony.
Theft Investigation:
Keep your car doors locked. An ongoing auto theft
investigation is being conducted by the Police department. Police chief Clayton
Wheat spoke earlier today on a group that is responsible for 300 auto thefts
last year. Most of the stolen cars were sold as parts and have been harder to
track. The department is pursuing the ringby expanding its search into the surrounding counties.
Industry Returning:
200 jobs will be retuning to Lynchburg. Just this morning, a
local group of investors layed out a plan to open a machine tool plant in the
old Loches Papermill building. Texron Corp is set to team up with the
businessmen in a combined effort to finish renovating the old plant. President
of the First Trust Bank is overseeing the project and hopes to have it complete
in a year.
Every Country has its Beginning and end. Its logical, if
something starts it must finish. In the past, you have the Babylonians,
Persians, Ethiopians, Spartans, Romans and even England. They all had a peak, yet have ended or declined. All were
dominate powers of the world in their day. Sir Alex Tytler studied the
American democracy system and concluded the following:
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It
can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote
themselves largess from the public treasury.
From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates
promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the
results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal
policy, always followed by a dictatorship."
-Sir Alex Fraser Tytler
(1742-1813)
The founding fathers formed a republic not a democracy.
A republic is ruled by a set of standards. A democracy is centered
around the mob ruling. A document can't change, people do. John Adams wrote: “Democracy never lasts very long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and
murders
itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide." The
nature of the people erodes into entropy, unusable energy, as physics point out
with all energy. Tytler's rational behind his conclusion continues when
he went on to say:
"The average age of the
world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about
200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through
the following sequence:
From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From
dependency back into bondage."
Many nations greater than
America thought they were immune to ending. This false delusion typically happened
in the later stages of Tytler apathy cycle. England's coined motto demonstrates: "The
Sun Never Sets on England." Does any of this sound filmier? I would
like to focus on the Roman Empire in comparison to the United States of
America.
In 1776, Edward Gibbon, a British historian, wrote on the decline of the Roman Empire in his first volume. He founded a five part theme that can be modeled:
The undermining of dignity and sanctity of the home, which is the basis of human society.
Higher and higher taxes and the spending of public money for free bread.
The Mad craze for pleasure
The building of gigantic armaments when the real enemy was within: the decadence of the people.
The decay of religion—faith fading into mere form—losing touch with life and becoming impotent to guide the people.
The
United States of America entered the first stage of Tytler's model when
we were tired of the bondage of England. Spiritual reasons were the
first thing the pilgrims felt strongly about followed by taxes. This
newly acquired spiritual faith in Christianity let to the courage of the
revolutionary war. We thus won our independence and transfered into
liberty that drove patriotism. We learned how to farm from the Native Americans and started our conquest of the western territories. The abundance lasted
for many decades as inventions were developed. Society was made
better.
The age of romanticism gave way to realism around
the 1900's. People began to question the source of their prosperity as
writers of literature shifted the populace. Naturalism soon
took over to the rise of Secular Humanism. This marks the beginning of it's fight with Christianity. The religious shift of the humanist started
redefining family values leading to the first and fifth point of
Gibbon's study on Rome. The notion of God was questioned as who needs
Him when you are doing well? This warranted complacency to take over the
abundance America was experiencing. The depression stalled this as
people got a rude awakening. Socialistic principals were soon introduced
from the Marxism-Leninism ideology. This slowed down the process of decline and made
America able to continue its course without facing the immediate results. The National Bank and federal Reserve were established and we gave the power of our nation to other people.
Inflation came to be.
The Roman government began differently
but did the same to import comfort items in its society. It also began as a republic and evolved into a hybrid democracy with the Caesars leading. Rome also started inflating their money by reducing the percentage of silver in a coin. This functioned to finance wars and luxury items. The abundance caused the society to sink into apathy. Caesar continued building up his military conquest by stealing from the citizens economy. With apathy dominating, higher taxes and spending of the
public money for bread was established. The Roman people were kept busy
with sponsored free food and games.
We jump started the American economy with WWII. The Army needed tanks and rounds to fight. Like Rome, America
went back to work with the new socialistic systems in place. Our abundance led to a complacency in the security of government. why not? we were winning the wars and the economy was good in light of the depression. Like Rome, The Federal Reserve started stealing from America to fund wars. The result was the massive build up of the industrial
military complex we see today. America is approaching the 50 percent mark of its citizens totally dependent on the government as Rome was. They fell after their citizens where to lazy to defend their borders against invaders. This was because of the family units total corruption. Who would think Rome could fall? they were the greatest civilization on earth and must be immune to destruction. Both citizens were being entertained and kept apathetically busy when the real enemy was in their own governments'.
Like
America Rome was experiencing the break down of the family unit through
wide spread homosexuality, Killing of babies in public temples
(abortion) and the divide of the family through entertainment. Rome took
it to areas we haven't got to as men were legally able to kill
their entire house hold if they chose, children were subject to sex, bestiality orgy's grew common in public and sex was common to engage with
anyone of a lower social status. In America, we see the rise of homosexuality, polygamy behind that and media content getting more debased. We haven't seen nearly what Rome had but are on a quick path in that direction. The rage of pleasure led from apathy
to dependence on the government in both civilizations.
We are in the verge of leaving the
apathy/dependency phase to bondage. There is little difference between e and America in all categories. America has given the government
your money to devalue, the raising of your children, your job market,
control of business, your health care decisions and soon your weapons.
The government is reducing your defence by downsizing the military.
This will leave us venerable to an attack like the Romans. Our debt is
already past the point of return. There is no return!!
We
are starting to enter hyper inflation and have our debt compounded into
oblivion. This is surpass all domestic product revenue. What is Obama's
response? Keep spending. The similarities of America to Rome is scary
and there is nothing left for our destiny to be the same as theirs (2016 Obama's America).
“Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.”
