Sunday Commentary
Reference: Washington Times, 6-28-13, Victor Davis Hanson
by
Dave Harbour
This morning, we were reminded by a Washington Times column, also printed in the Anchorage Daily News today, of how in its latter days, Rome debased its previously purer coins with alloys, increased taxes on productive farms, offered free games and food to the masses and counted on its military to continue defending a crumbling culture.
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One evidence of North America’s crumbling culture is the frequency and ferocity of political attacks on the productive, job-producing and revenue-generating fossil fuel industries.
Another evidence of our cultural disintegration is unsustainable government spending at the provencial/state and national levels.
Another is a spiritual failure that prospers within our midst.
Most counsellors tell us that to break addictive, unsustainable behaviors we must first admit the addiction.
NGP readers will know that healing is on the horizon when Americans and Canadians admit to the causes of addictive and unsustainable public and private policies as a step toward reform.
We can only hope that the universal admission of failure comes soon enough to protect our hard-won freedoms, free enterprise, wealth and job generators, and spiritual foundations.
If that admission does not come soon enough, the unsustainable trends — as the writer says — "will lead us to follow Rome down the road to ruin."
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