Standard and Poor's unprecedented downgrade of the United States of America's vaunted AAA credit rating is yet more proof of what happens when partisans seek their own power, their own agenda, and the satisfaction of their own narrow wants instead of the greater good of America.
Because one faction would for the first time in history hold the nation hostage over a routine raising of the debt ceiling, something they themselves did SEVEN TIMES without so much as a hiccup during the Bush presidency, our great nation has suffered what was an entirely foreseeable consequence: a credit downgrade.
Make no mistake, it was their intransigence, their hypocrisy that was fully responsible for this now irreversible chink in the armor of American strength.
Of course, they will wear their stubbornness as a hallowed badge of honor, oblivious to the harm they caused thereby. In this view one man's loyalist is another man's traitor.
The truth, however, is borne out by acts of consistency and fairness. Since this was an artificially created crisis in their vain attempt to score political points and further hurt President Obama (the nation be damned in the process!), and most importantly since the obligation to pay debts that past Congresses have authorized continues regardless of whatever the debt ceiling is, the weight of this truth is 100% AGAINST their warped stand.
Therefore, since the one possibility, that their stand was one of loyalty and honor, is refuted by facts, history and logic, the other possibility--that they engaged in a treacherous betrayal of their duty to the nation's welfare--is the only one remaining. We must vote them out, and with them anybody, regardless of party, who puts anything ahead of our national welfare.
Our downward descent will not end without a fundamental improvement of our national attitude. We must somehow return to the solidarity that made WWII era Americans the “Greatest Generation.” Nothing less than this single-minded focus of unity will put America back on an upward trajectory. We must therefore emulate the Greatest Generation, their noble pursuit of our greater good and their embodiment of the high-minded qualities so essential for such a quest: self-sacrifice, empathy, compassion, truth, duty and honor.
Coincidentally, not only are these the teachings of all mainline religions, they are also qualities consistent with secular principles of Universal Morality—no difference at all. Unfortunately they are nearly entirely missing in our highest halls of office, and are all but forgotten in our everyday discourse, on our televisions and radios, and quite possibly in many of our homes.
Every American, every school, every civic club, every church, mosque, temple, synagogue and meeting hall must preach with a common voice this message of unity, and of returning to the values so synonymous with Greatest Generation. Our future absolutely depends upon it.
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