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Bonefish
How is America Doing?
We’ll never find that out in The State of the Nation Address.
Let’s start with morals. What about the growing acceptance of immoral behavior? When we compromise God’s moral laws there are always consequences. What about families? Broken families lead to broken lives, which leads to a broken society. Marriage and family are the building block of society. Half of marriages in America are ending in divorce, thus many young people are avoiding marriage all together.
What about sexual promiscuity? Sexual promiscuity begins early these days in American. Many start at the age of twelve and some even earlier. Sexually transmitted infections among young people account for nearly half of the nation’s nineteen million new sexually transmitted infections each year. Each year 750,000 young females from the age fifteen to nineteen become pregnant, and many of these pregnancies end in abortion and illegitimacy. In fact, eighteen percent of the pregnancies end in abortion.
What about the drug use, human trafficking and sexual abuse? There were reported over 63,000 drug overdoses, over 17, 500 murders, over 320,000 sexual assaults in 2016 in the US. A child gets abused every 8 minutes in America. The average age of teenager to enter the sex trade in this country is 12 to 14 years of age, and most all are runaways. There are between 14,000 and 17,000 people coming into this country each year in the sex trade. How are we doing in America? It doesn’t look to me very well.
Children born into unmarried homes are more at risk in society. Children born into fatherless homes are far more likely to die in infancy, to be poor, to show aggressive behavior, to abuse drugs, to have behavioral problems in school and to spend time in jail or prison. So what is the cost to the nation, meaning us? In 2011, federal and state governments spent $330 billion on assistance to low-income single parent families with children, to say nothing about prison and court costs.
For four consecutive years the federal government has amassed a trillion-dollar deficit. It took the United States 200 years to accumulate its first trillion dollars in debt. Now it takes about 10 months. Many American cities are broke, as well as many states, and America’s citizens are suffering the consequences. Do you remember when God said centuries ago “the borrower is servant to the lender” (Proverbs 22:7)? America is now the most indebted nation in world.
Among the American children who are born, one in six has some kind of developmental disability. Children born of drug using mothers have extremely high medical cost and suffer many disabilities, which we as taxpayers pay the bill. These children are born to parents with poor life skills and have no way to support their children financially, emotionally, mentally or spiritually. So again America working citizens suffers the payback in crime, murder and prison.
The president says he is bringing back factories and jobs, but will there be enough willing workers who want to work? If our “free-loading” citizens are “working the system” and to get “free money” from our government, why would they want to work? If they are robbing and stealing from us, the hard worker, to by drugs and cigarettes, why would they want to work? Now days, very few young people can pass a drug test.
What about our food source? Today as a nation, we import more food for our citizens than we export, and much of the time these foods are of a lower quality than the foods grown by our great food producers in this nation. If you like antibiotics, added water and who knows what else injected into the meats you eat, more power to you. We should not have to pay higher prices for “organic” foods, which most are no more organic than the “label” its printed.
How about our military? I am not sure we have enough willpower and desire to fight a major war. The military has been gutted to such an extreme it will take years to rebuild, to say nothing about the “drug pool” we would have to draw from. For a few decades now, we have generations who know nothing about the sacrifices our brave men made in past wars. With the loss in manpower due to drug use, gang violence and general poor health among our citizens, our military may never be what it needs to be.
Before we make America great again, maybe we need stop and really look around us and within us and realize what it took for us to be here, what others did that allows us live in this once truly great and free nation. Would it be asking too much to once more love our neighbor as the Almighty God loves us? Would it be asking too much to realize God made each one of us in His image, made us for His Glory and wants the very best in our lives, which includes making the best choices for a healthy and productive life.
Abraham Lincoln said, “At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up among us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher.”
Bonefish
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