Three Quotations that Epitomize America's Failings

"The business of America is business" (Calvin Coolidge).

"Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all" (Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield).

"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart and in time depraves all its good dispositions" (Thomas Jefferson).

In this manner America has become depraved, and Jefferson knew it would happen when he wrote, "Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains."

The corruption of the American political system by business interests, chiefly through its influence on the Republican Party, will go down in history as the cause of America's decline. Anyone who studies history critically knows that The East India Company was chiefly responsible for the decline of the British Empire, that the Bank of England continued to do business as usual with the axis powers during World War II, and that American companies today think nothing of transferring militarily useful technology and armaments to nations that do not have American interests at heart.

China, whose form of government we have opposed for the past six decades, has now, thanks to American offshoring, become our most powerful adversary. But it no longer needs to fight us on the battlefield; all it needs to do is sell its dollar holdings and stop buying U. S. Treasury Notes. The American economy will collapse the minute China decides to do those two things, because Uncle Sam will then not be able to service his debt. America will have become a third-world nation. (4/23/2006)

2006, John Kozy

 

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