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The average American today has a standard of living that includes things that only the upper crust could have afforded in times past -- and some things that even the rich didn't have in past generations, like personal computers.

But are the people who made that possible even mentioned, much less publicized and praised?

There is not an inventor, scientist, medical researcher, or industrialist who is as well known as loudmouths like Rosie O'Donnell or Jesse Jackson.

Any bimbo who exposes her body can get more attention than someone who finds ways to reduce the cost of housing for millions of people.

In California, the bimbo can get favorable attention while the developer is condemned.

In short, the problem is not that particular people do particular things to get attention. The problem is that the society at large no longer has standards by which to deny or rebuke attention-seekers who have nothing to contribute to society.

Do not expect sound judgments in a society where being "non-judgmental" is an exalted value. As someone has said, if you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything.

— Thomas Sowell; Dismantling America view

Our national motto, "E Pluribus Unum" — from many, one — has been turned upside down as educators, activists and politicians strive to fragment the American population into separate racial, social, linguistic and ideological blocs.

— Thomas Sowell; Dismantling America view

There is nothing automatic about the way of life achieved in this country. It is very unusual among the nations of the world today and rarer than four-leaf clovers in the long view of history.

It didn't just happen. People made it happen — and they and those who came after them paid a price in blood and treasure to create and preserve this nation that we now take for granted.

— Thomas Sowell; Dismantling America view

Ironically, the United States is moving in the direction of the kind of economy that China has been forced to move away from. China once had complete government control of medical care, but eventually gave it up as the disaster that it was.

— Thomas Sowell; Dismantling America view

It has been estimated that a thousand years passed before the standard of living in Europe rose again to the level it had achieved in Roman times. The collapse of civilization is not just the replacement of rulers or institutions with new rulers and new institutions. It is the destruction of a whole way of life and the painful, and sometimes pathetic, attempts to begin rebuilding amid the ruins.

Is that where America is headed? I believe it is. Our only saving grace is that we are not there yet—and that nothing is inevitable until it happens.

— Thomas Sowell; Dismantling America view

One of the reasons for the growth and prosperity of the United States has been the fact that we have enjoyed one money throughout the large area of the country. We have had a gold or at least a single dollar standard within the entire country, and did not have to suffer the chaos of each city and county issuing its own money which would then fluctuate with respect to the moneys of all the other cities and counties.

— Murray Rothbard; What Has Government Done to Our Money? view

With more than 50 percent of our government debt currently sold to foreign governments, who will pick up the slack when they stop buying? With very little domestic savings to tap into, Americans alone won't be able to do it.

When that day comes, we will have two choices: default or inflation. Both options will violently force American living standards downward through lost purchasing power and higher interest rates.

— Peter Schiff; How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes view

In the early days after the War of Independence, in exchange for the establishment of a national government, which many Americans did not want, the U.S. Constitution was conceived as a masterfully designed cage that would prevent the "beast" of government from running amok. The Constitution not only protected people from government, but it also protected minorities from the tyrannies of majorities.

The Constitution deliberately sought to segment powers in the different branches of the federal government to decentralize authority into the many states, and most importantly to prevent the federal government from taking any power it decided to take.

The result was a nation where individuals could be secure in their personal liberty and possessions, and who were not prevented from disposing of their assets in any way they saw fit. The fact that these rights, unfortunately, did not apply to all inhabitants of the new country, does not diminish the audacity of the idea, which had never previously been codified in any other country.

— Peter Schiff; How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes view

It's a shame how few modern Americans really understand how our country was founded on a radical experiment in strictly limited government. Steeped in the transformative philosophies of freedom, reason, and science that flourished in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Founding Fathers sought to create a completely new relationship between people and government, whereby sovereignty rested with the individual, whose rights where inviolable.

— Peter Schiff; How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes view

A revolution is taking place in the United States instituted by the controllers, whose agents have learned their materialist, immoral philosophies at the knee of monsters like Cameron and Delgado. They are putting in place mind control technologies, advanced surveillance, computerization, indoctrination, prisons and other people-control technologies, that will render freedom meaningless and obsolete, syllables fallen from the lips of a mind-controlled moron. They are launching new assaults on people's lives every minute.

— Jim Keith; Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness view

All through the history of the United States it can be seen that every time government wanted to do something wrong it created a "villian," a "monster" or a "madman" or both, to justify its own illegal actions against the targeted country.

— Dr. John Coleman; The Committee of 300 view

[...] the United States now has a monarch with more powers than those possessed by King George III.

— Dr. John Coleman; The Committee of 300 view

The United States (all 50 of them) have gone downhill so fast since the "Aquarian Conspiracy," (the partial title of the book, a make-over of Willis Harmon's technical report) was written, that today, divorce carries no stigma, suicide is at an all time high and raises few eyebrows, social deviations from the norm and sexual aberrations, once unmentionable in decent circles, are now commonplace discussion pieces and excite no special protest.

— Dr. John Coleman; The Committee of 300 view

Statistics produced by the Institute for Higher Learning show that the reading and writing capabilities of high school children in the United States <em>is lower than it was among high school children in 1786</em>.

— Dr. John Coleman; The Committee of 300 view

With the U.S. spiritually and morally bankrupted, its industrial base destroyed, throwing 40 million people out of work, its big cities ghastly cesspools of every imaginable crime; with a murder rate almost three times higher than any other country and with the highest prison population in the world; with 4 million homeless and corruption in government reaching endemic proportions, who will gainsay that the United States is ready to collapse from within, into the waiting arms of the New Dark Ages of a One World Government?

— Dr. John Coleman; The Committee of 300 view

This underscores how Britain has controlled the United States, beginning from soon after the War of 1812, and has continued to exercise control over this country through the policies of the Committee of 300.

— Dr. John Coleman; The Committee of 300 view

Our ancestors came over to this continent to find freedom of worship, not freedom from worship.

— Manly P Hall; The Bible, the Story of a Book view

When once-proud and independent Americans are standing in soup lines, they will be ready to accept the carefully arranged "rescue" by the world bank.

— G. Edward Griffin; The Creature From Jekyll Island view

In 1999, the average personal savings rate finally became a <em>negative</em> one percent, which means that the facade of prosperity is now being paid for with borrowed money.

— G. Edward Griffin; The Creature From Jekyll Island view

It took 198 years for the government to borrow the first trillion dollars. Then, in just twelve years - mostly under the Reagan Administration - it borrowed another <em>three</em> trillion. [...] By 2007, it had risen to $59.1 trillion when all government liabilities are included.

— G. Edward Griffin; The Creature From Jekyll Island view

It is one of the least understood realities of modern history that many of America's most prominent political and financial figures - then as now - have been willing to sacrifice the best interests of the United States in order to further their goal of creating a one-world government.

— G. Edward Griffin; The Creature From Jekyll Island view

This, of course, is a classic example of the failure of liberal economics. When evaluating a policy, it focuses only on <em>one</em> beneficial consequence for <em>one</em> group of people and ignores the <em>multitude</em> of harmful effects which befall <em>all other groups</em>. Yes, if we established new business, the fractional-reserve system looks pretty good. But, if we add in to the equation all the financial losses to all of the people who were victimized by the system - what Galbraith calls "an involuntary contribution" and what Greider lightly dismisses as "froth" - then the product is zero at best and, in terms of morality, is deeply in the negative. [...] Had these destructive convulsions been absent, as most of them would have been under a less chaotic system, there likely would have been fewer business starts, but a greater number would have <em>finished</em>, and it is entirely possible that the West would have been won even faster than it was.

— G. Edward Griffin; The Creature From Jekyll Island view

Louis Hacker describes the period [1790s - 1800s] as one "of unexampled business expansion, one of the greatest, in fact, the United States has had.... The exports of the country mounted from $19 millions in 1791 to $93 millions in 1801." Furthermore, the federal deficit, which amounted to twenty-eight per cent of expenditures in 1792, dropped to twenty-one per cent in 1795. By 1802, the deficit had disappeared altogether and had been replaced by a surplus that was almost as large as the government's total spending.

— G. Edward Griffin; The Creature From Jekyll Island view

Under free coinage, any citizen may take raw silver or gold to the mint and, for a nominal fee, have it converted into coins for personal use. [...] Free coinage was to become an important part of the American success story, and it lasted until the Gold Reserve Act of 1934 which, not only terminated it, but even made it illegal for citizens to <em>possess</em> gold.

— G. Edward Griffin; The Creature From Jekyll Island view

The Coinage Act of 1792 accordingly set the relative value of gold-to-silver at fifteen-to-one. It then authorized the federal government to mint coins called Eagles, and it specified that their value was ten dollars. [...] What Congress <em>did</em> do was authorize the minting of a gold coin and arbitrarily fix the value of the gold in that coin at fifteen times the value of the dollar. [...] Oh yes, another thing. It set the death penalty for anyone who debases the nation's coinage; a law which, if enforced today, would wipe out the House of Representatives, the Senate, the managerial level of the Treasury Department, and the Presidency as well.

— G. Edward Griffin; The Creature From Jekyll Island view

Interestingly, the American colonies did not adopt the dollar from England, but from Spain. [...] the coins quickly achieved predominance in financial markets of the New World because of Spain's then-important commercial and political position.

— Edwin Vieira Jr.; as quoted by G. Edward Griffin in The Creature From Jekyll Island view

It is generally recognized that the early settlers who immigrated to the American continent did so with the purpose of escaping strong central government.

— Dr. John Coleman; What You Should Know About the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights view

Our people [Americans] have been poisoned by "democracy;" by "tolerance;" by "brotherly love;" by "internationalism;" by "compromise;" all of which doctrines are straight out of the Communist Manifesto of 1848.

— Dr. John Coleman; What You Should Know About the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights view

America, who God intended to lead the world into the path of righteousness, now is called "the Great White Satan" [...] if we persist in doing the Satanic work of the Canaanites - America will become - NOTHING.

— Eustace Mullins; The Curse of Canaan view

The principal cause of the United States' precipitous drop in world rankings is the continuous looting and raping of the nation by the Masonic Canaanite conspirators. For instance, of a defense budget of $248 billion in our peacetime economy, some $140 billion is paid directly to the NATO nations of Europe, our "allies" in the struggle against world Communism. The United States dispenses some additional $200 billion annually in "aid" to other countries such as the State of Israel, of which some $50 billion is channeled tot he Soviet Union and her satellites through food subsidies and monetary manipulations.

— Eustace Mullins; The Curse of Canaan view

In 1794, Genet was busily organizing an army to invade Florida and Louisiana and to seize these territories from Spain. This was a key element of the Masonic plot to set up a separate republic on the borders of the thirteen colonies, and possibly later, to invade and reconquer the United States for England.

— Eustace Mullins; The Curse of Canaan view

The British plan for setting up a separate western nation in competition with the United States received a fatal setback when Napoleon sold the Louisiana Territory to the United States.

— Eustace Mullins; The Curse of Canaan view

In the financial channels of American life it may be difficult to lay a hand upon the identical Joe the Whipper, the money scourge of our late '20s; nevertheless it is the writer's conviction that he was there and amply paid for his services.

Each American Citizen was literally scourging himself in the expectancy of becoming a high priest of the money Moloch. He must keep up with the Joneses or be forever damned and in 1929 came the year of the great flagellation.

— Henry Binkley Stein; The Axe Was God view

In chronicling the Reigns of Terror of the French Revolution, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Spanish Revolution, Americans are not being offered another television drama; they are being given a preview of their own future.

— Eustace Mullins; The Curse of Canaan view

America is left with two choices:

1. Right Wing "Vatican/Nazi NWO / Republicans"
2. Left Wing "Soviet Communism NWO / Democrats"

— Jordan Maxwell; The Dawn of a New Day Presentation view

The powers that be are keeping us docile with endless diversions -movies, television, entertainments like mindless Nintendo and computer games, drugs, alcohol, they hand out condoms in some schools. And when you get kids while they're young, they develop bad learning habits and short attention spans. A ton of information has also surfaced connecting certain intelligence agencies with the drug trade into America. And who does drugs? Mostly young people. There's no doubt about an intentional dumbing down, you can't possibly get around that. And when these people grow up, as a generation, nobody will be smart enough to know what to stand up for. Just think about the "Little House on the Prairie" days, back in the 1800's and early 1900's, when the schoolrooms were one little schoolroom out in the middle of the prairie with all the different grades sitting together. And out of these meager beginnings, out of these schoolhouses, came the great captains and kings of industry, the great poets, the great mathematicians, the greatest minds that built America and made it the strongest and most profoundly important country in the world. And today, we have the greatest schools, with air conditioning and all the computers and, collectively, they can't find their way home. They are the most ignorant and ill-informed generation this country has ever produced. It's been said that 50 per cent of high school graduates can't find America on an unlabeled world map. Now that's frightening.

— Jordan Maxwell; Matrix of Power view

Government was set up in this country to do one thing that is, to do for the people, generally, that which they can't do for themselves. This means, more specifically, to provide for our protection as a nation, to provide for an orderly distribution of goods, and for law and order. That's all.

— Jordan Maxwell; Matrix of Power view

I am saying that the most heinous criminals that have ever existed in this world, from what I can tell by a study of history, are here today, in America. Leading this country, as politicians on a state level, and especially on the federal level, are the most heinous criminals the world has ever known. These men are not politicians and leaders, they are misleaders, they are criminals. They have caused this country to be sold out to its enemies, they have bled us dry, our finances, they have stolen from us, and we are now in the same footsteps the Roman empire was in the early fourth century, just before the total collapse of the empire.

— Jordan Maxwell; Matrix of Power view

The problem with America is that 99% of everything that we know isn't true.

— Jordan Maxwell; Signs of Destiny II Lecture view

In response to a letter sent to George Washington in 1798, warning him about a Masonic movement operating in America, and this particular Masonic movement referred to as the Illuminati, George Washington responded in a letter to the person saying:

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It was not my intention to doubt that the doctrines of the Illuminati, the principles of Jacobinism, had not spread into the United States. On the contrary, no one is more truly satisfied of that fact than I am. The idea that I meant to convey was that I did not believe that the lodges of Freemasonry in this country, as societies, have endeavored to promulgate the diabolical tenets of the pernicious principles of the latter, if they are susceptible to separation, but, that individuals of them may have done it, or that the founder, or instrument founded, or the instrument employed to found the democratic societies in the United States may have had these objects in mind, and actually had the separation of the people from their government in view, is too evident to question.
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What George Washington was saying was the mere fact that someone had charged that the Illuminati was operating in America. George Washington said, "On the contrary, no one is more satisfied with that fact, than I am." And then he proceeded to say that he did not believe that all Freemasons were involved in this plot, but that the founders of the democratic society in America, the Democratic Party, as we call it today in America, had the object in mind of the Illuminati's projects. "And the Democratic Party," George Washington said, "had the separation of the people from their government in view. It is too evident to be questioned."

— Jordan Maxwell; Matrix of Power view

At least 33 of the first 42 presidents of the United States have been related to England’s King Alfred the Great (849-899) and Charlemagne (742-814), the famous monarch of France, and 19 Presidents are related to England’s King Edward 111(1312-1377), who has a thousand blood connections to Prince Charles.

— David Icke; The Biggest Secret view

Most Americans believe the Constitution was compiled to ensure freedom, but it was carefully worded to create loopholes through which the Brotherhood Agenda could be ridden.

— David Icke; The Biggest Secret view

...Manly P. Hall, who also points out that of the 56 signatories of the American Declaration of Independence, almost 50 were known Freemasons and only one was definitely known not to be. On September 3rd 1783, the colonies were recognized as an independent republic, the United States, in the appropriately named, Treaty of Paris.

— David Icke; The Biggest Secret view

It wasn’t that the colonies won the war, it was that the British chose to lose it.

— David Icke; The Biggest Secret view

The Brotherhood had known about the Americas for thousands of years and Christopher Columbus was used to make the official discovery so that the occupation of the Americas could begin.

— David Icke; The Biggest Secret view

The Phoenicians, Norse, Irish, Welsh, Bretons, Basques and Portuguese, all sailed to America before him [Christopher Columbus] and so did Prince Henry Sinclair of Rosslyn, as documented in a rare book by Frederick I. Pohl called Prince Henry Sinclair’s Voyage To The New World 1398.

— David Icke; The Biggest Secret view

But the United States has always been controlled from London and still is. America has never been the land of the free and it’s time it was.

— David Icke; The Biggest Secret view

No, I ought not, for I should contradict all the histories of the great events of the Revolution, and show by my account of men, motives, and measures, that we are wholly indebted to the agency of Providence for its successful issue. Let the world admire the supposed wisdom and valor of our great men. Perhaps they may adopt the qualities that have been ascribed to them, and thus good may be done. I shall not undeceive future generations.

— Charles Thomson; when asked to write the insider's history of the American Revolution view

Of the 2,500,000 enumerated inhabitants in 1787 America, the Roman Catholic population consisted of no more than 16,000 in Maryland, 7,000 in Pennsylvania, 1,500 in New York, and 200 in Virginia. Once the Constitution was in place, a steady influx of European immigrants transformed Roman Catholicism from America’s smallest to largest religious denomination. By 1850 the higher powers at Rome could view the United States as a viable tributary, if not another papal state.

— Tupper Saussy; Rulers of Evil view

The Bishop of Rome was a foreign ruler who, as a matter of public policy, regarded the British king and his Protestant Church as heretics to be destroyed. From the American colonists' standpoint, to allow Catholics to vote or hold office was tantamount to surrendering their colonies to a foreign conqueror. A crucial part of maintaining personal liberty in Protestant colonial America was keeping Roman Catholics out of government. But then came the Revolution. The colonial citizenry fought for and won their independence from Great Britain. They established a Constitution that amounted to ... surrendering their country to a foreign conqueror. Consider the legalities. Before the Constitution was ratified, American Catholics had few civil rights; after ratification, they had them all. Article VI, section 3, provides that "no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office of public trust under the authority of the United States," while the First Amendment denies Congress the power "to make any law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." With Article VI Section 3 and the First Amendment, the Constitution welcomed agents of Pontifex Maximus, the world's chief enemy of Protestantism, into the ranks of government.

— Tupper Saussy; Rulers of Evil view