At the risk of offending all my Libertarian friends (aka Ron Paul supporters), the real reason we’re on the brink of losing our Republic is not because we’re engaged in “illegal” foreign wars. It’s not because we haven’t legalized drugs – or any other libertine activity you wish to promote. Very simply, America is in decline because we’ve thrown away our moral compass.
“Doesn’t anybody get the connection between the social issues and economics issues?” asks Chuck Colson.
Some do… but probably not enough of us.
He continues:
Rick Santorum had the courage to link the two in a recent Iowa town hall meeting. (And before I go on, please, folks, I’m not endorsing him or anyone. I never do.) Here’s what Senator Santorum said: ‘Yes, [the election is] about growth and the economy, [but] it’s also about what is at the core of our country … faith and family. You can’t have a strong economy, you can’t have limited government if the family is breaking down and we don’t live good, moral, and decent lives.‘ Precisely right. … If the nation’s current economic crisis has taught us anything, it’s that a healthy economy cannot thrive in the midst of moral breakdown. Ethical failures on Wall Street, Main Street, and Capitol Hill put us into this mess we’re in today, as I’ve said many times before. … Do you think that crime rates, incarceration, low educational achievement, out of wedlock births, affect the economy and government spending? Of course they do, and the statistics prove this! If you want a healthy, thriving economy you’ve got to have a strong moral societal foundation.”
~ Chuck Colson via Patriot Post ~
Our founding fathers all knew the truth… why don’t Libertarians, who claim to embrace the Constitution and our founding principles, get it?
“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
~ John Adams ~ Address to the Military ~ 1798
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Related:
Eve was a Libertarian
Morality and the Economy – No Separating the Two ~ Read Chuck Colson’s entire article, at Breakpoint.
