Modern American Results, By Roger Behra

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Modern American Results

By

Roger Behra

Once-upon-a-time (1890-1965) America was for the most part a model nation. The right people in the right places with the right thinking had most all the right ideas for a new and successful developing country. New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco were ideal growing cities for Americans to live and enjoy. Other smaller cities throughout America slowly and surely also developed into pleasant place to live. And then, after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, in the early 1960's America started to go bad. And it all started with America's new president.

Lyndon B. Johnson succeeded Kennedy as America's new president. He quickly became the wrong one to be America's leader. Because of his greatly flawed thinking and decisions both morally and politically, America began it's cultural and moral downhill slide. It started with the Vietnamese War which he got us involved in and which led to the infamous countercultural movement. During the past 45 years America has never recovered from all of that, and in turn, America has become a very Godless and wasteful nation. America has wasted so much precious natural resources and trillions of dollars on many useless wars and space projects.

No longer are there outstanding Americans like Henry E. Huntington, Thomas Alba Edison, Franklin Roosevelt, and Dwight Eisenhower to name a few who were outstanding and productive citizens. They were not wealthy but dedicated to lasting and very worthwhile cultural endeavors. It is simply not so anymore.

Modern America is mired in menaces thanks to Washington and politicians everywhere. The Big Creek Hydraulic Project, the Panama Canal, the Hoover Dam Project, and the San Francisco Bay and Golden Gate bridges, plus the fabulous interstate highway system could not be built today because of all the government interference and money that would be needed. And there would be all the unions in the mix on top of everything else. The great American involvement and production and successes Americans achieved during World War Two could not happen today.

Now, at a time of great importance, America has an inexperienced and greatly ineffective president (Obama), who seems to muddle through important decisions and make them too late, or wrong, or not at all. His failure to make a correct decision concerning Iran is going to be a big one. Waite until Iran has nuclear weapons to go with their long, range missiles. Obama's handling of America's economy and 9.2 unemployment has been dead wrong. America's schools are dysfunctional. The private sector is moribund. And the president spends millions of taxpayer dollars on his many travels around the world, while millions of Americans go to bed hungry or need government food stamps.

Only God can help and save America, and He is not part of over 65% of American families that do not practice Christian living. The remaining 35% who do can only hope and pray for God's immediate help. Time is quickly running out.

R. B.
7-31-11