As the psalmist declared: Righteousness exalteth a nation.The American government, in all forms, spends billion upon billions for the damages incurred by the moral breakdown in our society. It is not necessary here to list a litany of sins which have inflicted the soul of our nation. But beginning in the home, where influences have sway in the conduct and actions of our children, we witness a devastating collapse of values in our social behavior. The offences are multitudinous and translate severely in the cost impinged upon us through drugs, drunkeness, prostitution, adultery, criminal violations, corporate dis-honesty, violence, sexual molestations, rape, destruction of private property, general disobedience and disrespect, alternative life styles, sexual perversions, pornography, moral revisionism, lying and cheating, and a general acceptance of the secular approach to living as one pleases at the expense of shunning or abandoning all references to divine instructions. Senator Kerry cannot even give thought to allay-ing this burdensome problem with federal dollars. The disease is in the human heart and no funds of any lind can relieve the damage. It is only when we as a nation are repentant of our sins and humble ourselves before God and ask forgiveness and healing for our land, that a revival of healing will sweep across our broad plains, bringing showers of blessing and a renewal of the human spirit.

As the psalmist declared: Righteousness exalteth a nation.The American government, in all forms, spends billion upon billions for the damages incurred by the moral breakdown in our society. It is not necessary here to list a litany of sins which have inflicted the soul of our nation. But beginning in the home, where influences have sway in the conduct and actions of our children, we witness a devastating collapse of values in our social behavior. The offences are multitudinous and translate severely in the cost impinged upon us through drugs, drunkeness, prostitution, adultery, criminal violations, corporate dis-honesty, violence, sexual molestations, rape, destruction of private property, general disobedience and disrespect, alternative life styles, sexual perversions, pornography, moral revisionism, lying and cheating, and a general acceptance of the secular approach to living as one pleases at the expense of shunning or abandoning all references to divine instructions. Senator Kerry cannot even give thought to allay-ing this burdensome problem with federal dollars. The disease is in the human heart and no funds of any lind can relieve the damage. It is only when we as a nation are repentant of our sins and humble ourselves before God and ask forgiveness and healing for our land, that a revival of healing will sweep across our broad plains, bringing showers of blessing and a renewal of the human spirit.

Dear Mr. Auster: (Gut Shabbes)
Baruch hashem adonoi eloheynu! No, I’m am not of that Blessed race, the Covenant people of G-d. Just a simple house painter with barely an elementary education. But I do enjoy the exchange of dialogue through this generous medium. By introduction, let me sat that I am one of few in America who never had a childhood. My father, whom I love and who has since deoarted from this earth, separated when I was only seven years of age. My siblings, of which there are nine, were scattered all over the state in various homes for boys and girls. I never saw them again until the attained age of twenty-three. We never had a Christmas, toys, tree and tinsels, bycycle, or even the joy of going to a prom. But many years later when people would ask me if I hated my father, I replied that I loved him more because I missed him. Who are we to judge. The Fourth Commandment says that we must honor our fathers and mothers. There are no preconditions. Even if they are the worst of parents, we obey this admonition of the Lord with the hope that they will be brought to a state of conviction for righteousness sake. Today, I am the richest man in the world. When Bill Gates dies, they will inscribe on his stone: World’s wealthiest man. But when I pass on, people will remember a line or two that I wrote. That, my friend, is real wealth. Pasternak said that to live life to the end is not a childish task. If he had not written anything more than that, it would be a fitting memorial to his greatness as a writer. I enjoyed the fellowship of sorts with your posters and apology for any misgivings or unintended jibes. Your web page is the best thing ever to appear on the computer. And I will continually pray for its unending success. Good-bye to all as I sign off. Edwin Vogt.

Don’t these politicians even listen to themselves. Kerry decries the lack of parental involvement and in the next breath suggest more programs that would decrease parental involvement. If this wasn’t so sad, I would die laughing.

I will not be Vogting for Sen. Kerry.

“It doesn’t even enter the subconsciousness of today’s Democrats that a ‘lack of parental involvement’ in young black people’s lives has something to do with the fact that 70 percent of blacks are born to unmarried mothers.”

Mr. Auster overestimates their ethics and underestimates their brainpower. I hope this is merely his good manners speaking.

There is a darker possiblilty: it’s not in their subconscious because it’s all quite conscious. They read the Moynihan report not as a warning but as a blueprint.

Yes, they’re that evil.

Caesar (I hope he doesn’t mind my addressing him that way, as “Mr. Caesar” doesn’t sound right) states as a fact what is only a fascinating and disturbing possibililty. Could the Democrats really be that evil? Do they look at the world and consciously think, “We want _more_ illegitimacy, because it’s good for us electorally and helps us more toward a socialist society”?

On one hand, I guess that wouldn’t be shocking. Since unmarried mothers vote far more for Dems than married mothers, it would naturally be in their interest for the number of unmarried mothers to increase. I wish some reporter would ask leading Democrats exactly that question to see what they would say. But I find it hard to conclude with the same definiteness as Caasar that the Dems consciously wish such an outcome. I imagine that they maintain some structure of rationalization in their minds by which they avoid consciously embracing that thought.

What do other posters here think about this?

The Democrats should understand that the taxpayer’s are obligated to spend billions on reckless irresponsibility! There can be no vision for America until a change of heart takes place. This applies to all races and colors. The blue-print for our survival has been scrawled over by too many politicians who have sought to rebuild a house that never needed renovations. The structure they envisioned has forced many to vacate the premises! But what did we expect; remove God from our midst and replace Him with situation ethics and moral relativism. The block aint the same no more!

I would like to point out that it is not merely the Democrats that have wrongheadedly gone off in direction of some social issues, but many neocons as well according to what area they represent. At times also, I believe the implementation of social policy is often at fault…and not the policy itself.

In the case of unwed single mothers, what would you have the ones that exist do? Be shunned by society like in the past? It would be ideal that they weren’t on welfare or weren’t unwed mothers in the first place, but in the meantime, they still exist and as a matter of policy, they do deserve attention. Though I would also point out that the instance of unwed mothers is directly related to income levels and education. Also in what they have been taught about birth control or abstinence.