{"id":8119,"date":"2026-08-30T18:04:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T23:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=8119"},"modified":"2026-08-30T18:04:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T23:04:36","slug":"throwaway-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=8119","title":{"rendered":"THROWAWAY NATION"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We have enormous man-made mountains outside our cities.<br>Impressive monuments&#8212;<br>to what ?&#8212;<br>to whom ?&#8212;<br>created wth what ?&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>OUR TRASH !<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have become so accustomed to throwing away a dozen pieces of trash from a fast-food meal . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have become so accustomed to throwing away food that hungry people would appreciate . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have become so accustomed to throwing away what older folks have to offer, learned from a lifetime of experiencing reality . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>All that&#8212;&#8220;becoming so accustomed to throwing away&#8221;&#8212;now we are ready and willing to throw away everything else, hanging in the balance, plus or minus:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>or &#8212;  our economy, based on capitalism<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>or &#8212;  our history, based on the Declaration and the Constitution<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>or &#8212;  our Godly heritage, from founders that openly stated dependence on &#8220;Divine Providence&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>or &#8212;  our family values, passed on to generations, essential to the strength of this nation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>or &#8212;  our very families, literally, and the emphasis to keep families intact at all cost<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>or &#8212;  our children&#8212;our future as in every generation since our beginning, now thrown away to the demonic dogs of abortion and gay and transgender ideology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>And,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>or &#8212;  just about everything that made this country great, by the blessing of God<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>AND NOW,<br>We have become so accustomed to throwing away . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are ready to<br>THROW AWAY AMERICA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>The more stuff, and people, we throw away, the less valuable everything becomes, and the more likely to see the trash can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have enormous man-made mountains outside our cities.Impressive monuments&#8212;to what ?&#8212;to whom ?&#8212;created wth what ?&#8212; OUR TRASH ! We have become so accustomed to throwing away a dozen pieces of trash from a fast-food meal . . . We have become so accustomed to throwing away food that hungry people would appreciate . . [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3,14,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-family","category-health","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8119"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8120,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8119\/revisions\/8120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}