America’s moral decline the cause and no its not the hippy 60′s. Rather its the growing divide between the rich and the poor.
As society gets richer and poorer the idle rich can afford to work even less and still have enough to money to do what they want to do in life and well have have sex ( I don’t think its a sin) eat what ever they want look at Newt Rush etc ( I think glutony is a bad idea not a sin) party drink do drug etc.
These acts again are not a sin but a bad idea if you do it all the time and if it stops you from doing the other things you want to do in life.
When rich people do these things they set an example to society that people aspire to and try and copy. If the rich work hard and try and be more rich then the poor work hard.
If the rich gamble on the stockmarket and stop caring about making actual products that have value to society then they must be doing something right because look they don’t even have to work anymore!
As far as the poor are concerned lack of money not cheating is the biggest factor in divorce. If responsible people wait to get married until they have enough cash to get married…. well its insane to think they will wait for sex until marriage when even Victorian England a time period the Conservatives love as an age of Morality had the age of consent at 12.
Incident to this campaign was another, to raise the age of consent from 12 to
13 in 1875, and then to 16 in 1885
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/...
Average age of Marriage in America now.
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So then back to the point more idle rich, more people with the cash to sin and the free time to sin 24/7 they don’t need to work and with that free time can do much more sinning. Eat, drink, drugs juggle multiple sex partners with a car you can drive to see many more dates a day than you could walking everywhere. With money you can afford many dates a day. Or if corruption is more your thing with a computer and the internet you can steal from banks across the world provided the government does not catch you so of course you as opposed to just ripping off your neighbors.
You can bribe politicians who also want to live your lifestyle to deregulate the banks the stockmarket worker protections so you can exploit your workers safety regulations that cost you money, the minimum wage which costs you money etc.
If you lose it all those same politicians can be counted on to bail you out.
Getting back to morals since cash was a factor in divorce more than cheating the newly divorced won’t want to make that mistake again and hope they can be the ONE to change a rich person. But if the rich person is inclined to cheat or if not married not be monogamous then a rich person who again does not have to work can cheat with more people than a person who does not have to work because they have the money and the free time. This spreads an example, a culture where the party lifestyle is more important than family.
More single people dating longer increases the odds they will run into a married person who cheats. This spreads an example, a culture where the party lifestyle is more important than family. Because the family is delayed and more people get exposed to this lifestyle rather than get married early if thats what they wanted there are some people who want that.
Thus the more wealth a society has enables those inclined to sin to have the time and cash to sin more and lets face it cash buys protection from the law so you can keep sinning. John Mclain’s wife never went to jail for having enough pills to get my entire high school high. Rush Limbaugh never went to jail for oxy, he never went to jail for illegal viagra and lets face it given his weight and past drug problem no doctor would give him a perscrition in America for that.
Rush kept his job preaching against 60’s morals among other things even though he went on vacation with viagra to the Dominican Republic a known sex vactation spot. A poor person could not keep a job preaching against teen sex, or as an anti drug crusader or educator if they were caught doing what Rush did.
This spreads a an example, a culture where the rules do not apply to the rich. Since we are all exposed to and feel the pressure to have the party lifestyle of the idle rich we realize that to get that life style we must be careful not to get caught until we are rich enough to ignore the law.
Thats why America has Moral Problems its not that we made divorce easier keeping unhappy people together was wrong. Its cause is that we made people poorer and thus created tensions that break up more marriages.
Its to relieve that tension that people pursue the idle rich who not having to work and can indulge any pleasure they want all the time. America consumes more drugs than Columbia for a reason we have enough people with enough money to want that lifestyle. Never mind that lifestyle often leads to poverty if your not Paris Hilton.
Because we want families and we see the only way to get enough cash for a family is to break the law like the rich people do many of us break the law.
The Mcdonald’s manger who hires illegal immigrants does so to reduce wages at his store and move up the ladder and make more money.
The landscaper who cuts Mitt Romney’s lawn hires illegals to keep his prices low and compete against everyone else hiring illegals.
The farmer spraying toxic chemicals that kills the worms, and bugs in his soil so well that even a ripe tomato on the ground won’t be eaten for a week by the bugs or chipmunks does not care if his worker legal or illegal ( I know this from experience) get exposed to those chemicals touching those tomatoes never mind the consumer who eats them.
Why he has to make ends meet and thats the only way he can. We are all beggars to our base desires.
The Rich getting Richer is the Cause of America’s moral decline not the hippy 60′s Sin is manageable if you know you have to work every day to keep on sinning. Getting toasted on the weekends, putting on a few pounds even cheating is restricted held in check by the reality you have to work.
Sin is UNmanageable if you don’t have to work. Corruption unchecked by government laws and regulation is UNmanageable if both the rich are above the law and everyone wants to be rich because they can’t make ends meet obeying the law.
If you eat at Mcdonald’s, shop at Wallmart etc you are contributing to America’s immoral culture a system where you can’t get by if you try and be your brothers keeper.
A system that rewards Psychopathic Me First! Greed is good behavior.
Greed is not the only factor for innovation a desire for change is if people have a problem they invent things to fix the problem. Innovation is driven by reward. Today we don’t reward the inventor of a high fuel efficiency car we ignore him until the Japanese steal away our customers.
We reward big oil instead. We reward breaking the law whether its war crimes for oil wars or just exploiting workers by buying products where the workers don’t get a living, not a minimum wage.
I am as guilty as anyone. I am a sinner…but I want to change.
St. Augustine is rumored to have prayed God grant me Chastity just not yet!
I ask God for help to change America so I can live without exploiting people.