So President Obama's stimulus package has been passed, rushed without adequate debate, with no one getting the chance to read it (as admitted by New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg) until it was too late.

This package will be the death of a Republic that was on life support. It will spawn cross-generational warfare, with the older generations declaring that having fewer children reduces costs. Those who survive will leave the older generations in shock when they euthanize their grandparents and parents for the same exact reason.

The beneficiaries of this legislation – ACORN, the National Council of the Race (a.k.a. La Raza), Planned Parenthood, big corporations, just to name a few – are all cheering it, while many Americans dread the consequences of what will be the biggest expansion of the federal government and ponder, where did we go wrong as a nation? When did a nation with a brilliant Constitution that called for strict limits on the power of the federal government become a place where government was all-powerful?

One possible answer is that when government is of the people, by the people and for the people, it reflects the morals and values of the people, sometimes more perfectly than even they intend. When the people become immoral, government becomes that much more so. So the real question perhaps should be, where did we go wrong as a people?

When we decided we no longer needed God, we started playing god ourselves.

When we decided religion was no longer important, whatever we felt was important (money, food, entertainment, pleasure, sex, the newest celebrity, the next government handout) became our religion.

When we abandoned faith in favor of reason, we soon wound up with neither.

When we decided there were no absolute truths, absolutely anything was truly permissible.

When we decided to live however we wanted to, it became too inconvenient for others (the unborn, the elderly, the disabled) to live.

When we decreed we didn't have the right to tell others their actions were wrong, the greatest of wrongs became our right.

Many Americans decided that God wasn't “real” or “concrete” enough, yet at the same time, facts and statistics became irrelevant if they “didn't feel that way” about an issue. Sadly, those same Americans, your neighbors and mine, will be shocked when the nations and banks holding our ballooning national debt cut off our credit and call our loans. China, the Saudis, the Federal Reserve and the other international banks – none of them will care how we “feel” about them taking that action.