And you wonder why I worry about today’s generation and America’s future

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opsspec1991

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A standardized test concentrating on reading, math and computer skills was given by The Organization for Economic Co-Operation & Development to a large number of people in various countries between the ages of 16 to 34 and here are the results:
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Literacy:
Americans ranked 16th out of 22 countries.

Math:
Americans tied for last place with Italy & Spain.

Problem solving in Tech-Rich environments (Computers):
Americans tied for last place with Slovak Republic, Ireland and Poland.
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Basically these Americans don’t know the basics to survive in the global economy, could it be that this is a downfall of teaching, I say no, it’s a systematic downfall of the younger generation to accept these teachings, to be aware of what’s going on around them and get back to the basics of what has worked in the past and I won’t even start talking about this Common Core BS.
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How many times have you watched a video of groups of younger Americans being asked basic run of the mill common sense questions and they don’t have a dammed clue what the answer is, two cases in point, a young man was asked, “who won the civil war” and his answer was “England” and another one, a girl was asked, “to identify a photo of Albert Einstein and her answer was, “Is that one of the signers of the Constitution”.
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Now I know they are all not stupid and there are some very bright young Americans out there, but when I see and watch such a large number of these brain dead younger people out there, it’s hard not to be very worried, for these are the next generation that will evidently be the one’s running this country of ours.
 
In the 1940's and 50's, America was not politically correct. English was the only language on ballots and other government documents including very small number of welfare application forms. We split the atom, won WWII, went to the moon. Then we became a Great Society with Head Start, "Equal" opportunity (equal being code for quotas of people not qualified to do the jobs they were hired for). The baby boom generation was in the workforce paying huge amounts into Social Security, so the congress could increase SS benefits, add people who never paid into the system to the benefit rolls, carve out part of the pool of money to create Medicare. More luxuries that we worked for became first necessities, then rights, so anyone who didn't have them, should get them paid for by those who bought their own. Then...can't afford the apartment you want? No worries, Section 8 housing. We'll just subsidize up to 90% so you don't have to live in the apartment you can afford because of the job you have, thanks to no education or job skills. And so on. And welfare becomes not a temporary help but a career choice.
Meanwhile the congress sees "Holy bleep. These baby boomers are making a lot of money. Let's increase the SS tax, create a special tax for Medicare, and we'll have lots of money to spend. Hopefully the next generation will grow the economy the same way, and we'll have no problem running out of money." Of course, the affluent baby boomers had fewer children while the welfare boomers had many children, and the next generation turned out to be paying less and less into social security. Now the first wave of baby boomers says, "OK, I'll take some of my money back now." Oops, we're about to have a huge number of people, many of whom have theoretical accounts worth nearly a million dollars, wanting some of their money back. But we spent it. Wars, benefits for people who didn't pay, children of people who didn't pay, illegal immigrants who went home and applied for ss benefits, free cell phones, free Internet, free cable TV, free, free, free. Sorry, you baby boomers are entitlement freaks. You should not expect your money back. It's time to change the system.

Meanwhile, the next generation is in school. Half don't speak English at school or at home. They go to school for the free breakfast and lunch, and the air conditioning, and a place to make drug deals. Those who speak English have dumbed down classes to accommodate the least capable in the classrooms. Emphasis? Teach how to get a good grade on the standardized test. Christmas holidays (for now, until we adopt all Muslim holidays in its place), our grandchildren had no schoolwork to do over the holidays...but they did have basketball practice. And even in the sports, everyone wins. A team that loses every game in their season, goes to the playoffs, and in the end every player gets a trophy just like the winning team. They skip what is important--education--and expect to be rewarded for even failing at what doesn't matter.

I know young adults in their 30's and now 40's who don't even know who their Congressman is, can't name both of their Senators, and don't know who the state Governor is. Almost none can tell you who the Lt. Gov. is. But they can name all the characters in the latest stupid pop "reality" TV show. Reality? That's about ten to twelve years out, and it's going to be real alright.


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nosreme said:
Reversing the dumbing down of this country requires a no-holds-barred analysis of the complex factors that got us to this dismal state...but some of the most important factors are off-limits from even being raised much less addressed.
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We sure agree on that one. "Baby Mama" is now a job title. What do you do for living? "I'm a baby mama. I have four kids from three fathers none of whom pay any support or provide any influence on the kids." The 17-year-old dad is hanging-out on the corner while his offspring is raised by the streets. What's funny is dems support abortion but those that should be using it don't. Just keep pumping them out. Considering school costs an average of $15K per year, per student, the price of rent, cell phone, food and utilities, a single family can clip society for $100K per year in entitlements. America can't survive at this rate. Obama could never tax the wealthy enough to support this growing problem.
 
I guess they are equally as bad...in the end I suppose it doesn't matter...the old were selfish...the young are dumb...Im just going to try my best to keep my family and friends alive, no one else matters. Generation of WW2 are pretty much gone, no faith the baby boomers will make the right decisions, no faith the young will vote using critical thinking...or at all...

Bluestringer has it right, get away from society, move out to the sticks, and watch each generation burn each other to the ground.

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Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?
The major hurdle in answering the question is to define terms properly. The concept of a Christian nation is often written off because of misconceptions as to what this means. A Christian nation is not one in which all people in a society are Christians, just as in an Islamic country, not all people are necessarily Muslims. But in a Christian nation, as our Founders would have defined it, the principle and institutional foundations are Biblically based and the people in general share a Biblical world view.
Nor should we confuse the term “Christian nation” with a “Christian state.” Since the word state refers to a political body or body politic of the nation, the term “Christian state” would mean one in which the government ruled in religious matters through a state church. This would, of course, preclude religious liberty.
All Laws are a codification of a religious system
Nevertheless, it is imperative to understand that all laws of a nation are the codification of a presupposition world-view, i.e., the laws of the United States have presupposed from the beginning that the Bible was the foundation of our system. Rev. John Wingate Thornton said:
“The highest glory of the American Revolution, said John Quincy Adams, was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.”
Rev. Thornton’s words condense and paraphrase comments Adams made in a July 4, 1837 oration, which are even more powerful in their full statement:
“Is it not that, in the chain of events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of our Saviour? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation! Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer’s mission! That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity and gave to the world the first irrevocable pledge of the fulfillment of the prophecies announced directly from Heaven at the birth of the Saviour and predicted by the greatest of the Hebrew prophets 600 years before!”
Such convictions as these concerning the Christian foundations of our government persisted into comparatively recent times. John W. Whitehead analyzes the Supreme Court’s historic understanding of the relationship between Christianity and government in the United States:
“In 1892 the United States Supreme Court made an exhaustive study of the supposed connections between Christianity and the government of the United States. After researching hundreds of volumes of historical documents, the Court asserted “these references add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a religious people…. A Christian nation.” Likewise in 1931, Supreme Court Justice George Sutherland reviewed the 1892 decision in the relation to another case and reiterated that Americans are a “Christian people” and in 1952 Justice William O. Douglas affirmed “we are a religious people and our institutions presupposed a Supreme Being.”
Who owns you and your property?
There is perhaps no more important question to address at this critical hour of American history than “Who owns you and your property, God or Caesar?” If we do not settle this issue and settle it soon, what is left of our estates, our families, and our religious liberty will be confiscated by the humanist state.
The American people have been slowly boiled, so to speak, like an unwary frog, in a pan of candy-coated historical and theological distortions. Today we devote five months of every year to work as servants of the statist bureaucracy. That is how long it takes us to work off the tax burden at all levels. The Roman Empire fell with a tax burden of just over 20%, while we in America are facing well over 40% tax burden.
The question is: Who is God?
Many in our nation, when warned of the above facts, shrug their shoulders and say such things as, “that is the cost we must pay for our societal benefits” or “render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s.” They fail to recognize that whoever determines how you use your property will become your lord. The real question facing us today is: “Who is sovereign?”
 
Stan45 said:
Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?
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No, it was founded by people seeking freedom from the oppression of religion. religious persecution that drove settlers from Europe to the North American colonies sprang from the conviction, that uniformity of religion must exist in any given society. This conviction rested on the belief that there was one true religion and that it was the duty of the civil authorities to impose it, forcibly if necessary, in the interest of saving the souls of all citizens.
 
Believing God, this present generation is the Last Generation and there is no future America. So, nothing to worry about.
 
So, you know more than the United States Supreme Court?
They made an exhaustive study of the supposed connections between Christianity and the government of the United States.
Very surprisingly they do not agree with you.
 
Howdy,

XD40scinNC said:
No, it was founded by people seeking freedom from the oppression of religion. religious persecution that drove settlers from Europe to the North American colonies sprang from the conviction, that uniformity of religion must exist in any given society. This conviction rested on the belief that there was one true religion and that it was the duty of the civil authorities to impose it, forcibly if necessary, in the interest of saving the souls of all citizens.
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Very true.

Our original settlers came from either Englang or Europe.

In England you had the Church of England the controlled ever aspect of a persons life and in mainland Europe you had the Roman Catholic church that did the same thing.

Several groups of the early settlers fled England or Europe to avoid religious persecution.

That's why We have the 1st Admendment.

Paul
 
In a secular vs. a Christian view, either way it is the end of our great nation. I believe our best days were WW II and up to the first Moon landing. My faith is that it is the Last Generation. I believe the stop watch started in 1948, I believe in the Shemita of Jonathan Cahn, the seven year cycle and following the 9/11 time line. Even my L.D.S. buddies feel we are in the last days. Every search of how nations, empires or cultures end lists at least 7 marks of decline, trust me, I have researched this. "How Empires end" has the best, in my view, of the end of nations. Of the ten listed I think we are on number 8. We are not the pre-WW II country. We could not fight an extended war as we did, we do not have the means to out build China, China makes most of the stuff we can not live without, we import Band-Aids, Computers, DVDs, this big screen TV/Monitor. shucks, got a little carried away. . . live well my bested buddies. . .

Ringo said:
Believing God, this present generation is the Last Generation and there is no future America. So, nothing to worry about.
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We may well be in our last days as a nation.

The professional politician with their greed and corruption are the threat, not imaginary deities.

The quick solution: Term limits, no pension, and minimal pay, and they are expected to earn a living outside of government, just like our founding fathers envisioned how our government should work, a citizen legislature is one made up primarily of citizens who have a full-time occupation besides being a legislator. A civic duty, just like jury duty.
 
Let's face it, kids are the way they are because of how they were brought up by their parents. Don't try to point the finger at others. They learn by example, ask Dr. Phil.
 
SR9 said:
Let's face it, kids are the way they are because of how they were brought up by their parents. Don't try to point the finger at others. They learn by example, ask Dr. Phil.
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The major factor dictating why are our kids are the way they are is our educational system, regardless of church or family upbringing. For the past four decades, from grammar school to college, our schools are no longer institutions of learning, they have become liberal institutions of indoctrination.
 
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