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    Out of Kilter (Societal Programs Gone Awry)
    Out of Kilter (Societal Programs Gone Awry)
    Out of Kilter (Societal Programs Gone Awry)
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    Out of Kilter (Societal Programs Gone Awry)

    By William Parker Archibald

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    Either a Clinton or a Bush has been in the White House for nearly half, or twenty years, of our precipitous decline. Both seek the office again. This book offers an alternative, a fresh approach to the same land Lincoln referred to when he passionately argued for "our last, best hope".

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilliam Parker Archibald
    Release dateJul 13, 2015
    ISBN9781311811257
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      Out of Kilter (Societal Programs Gone Awry) - William Parker Archibald

      OUT OF KILTER

      Societal Programs Gone Awry

      They Promised Us the Moon

      Volume III

      by

      William Parker Archibald

      ~~~

      Smashwords Edition

      OUT OF KILTER

      Societal Programs Gone Awry

      They Promised Us the Moon – Volume III

      Copyright © 2015 by William Parker Archibald

      All rights reserved

      Textual Advisement: Elaine Bush

      Technical Support: Digital Depot (Maurice Tift)

      Editing: Kit Duncan

      Book Layout: Nat Mara

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      A writer should struggle with the words

      so the reader won’t have to.

      – the author

      When I was a youngster,

      My father’s favorite joke was about the farmer who had a pig with a wooden leg. When asked about it, the farmer went on for days about the virtues of the pig and how attached the family had become to it.

      Acknowledging all of that, the visitor asked yet again why the animal had a wooden leg. To which the farmer responded, Well, if you had a pig like that, would you eat it all at once?

      This, in a real way, is the story of America. I’m not questioning our love for it. That is well established. Rather, I’m questioning why, after centuries of toil and sacrifice, we’ve all of a sudden turned on it and are now devouring it with the reckless abandon of fools who sat down to feast on the goose that laid the golden egg.

      Dedication

      This book, indeed this whole endeavor to preserve, protect and defend that which has been given to us at such enormous cost, is dedicated to all of the patriots, both living and dead and to my good friend and mentor,

      Millard Fuller,

      founder of Habitat for Humanity International and the Fuller Center for Housing.

      Table of Contents

      Out of Kilter

      List of Headings

      Out of Kilter

      The War on Poverty

      Won’t Be Over Until

      People Are Autonomous,

      Self Directed

      And Most Importantly

      Self Sufficient.

      Continuing Forward!

      Thanks to the bravery and life work of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Junior, blacks are finally in the house. That’s great! Wonderful! Yet, the work is far from over.

      It won’t so much as begin to near completion until we stop enabling,

      allow for the assumption of responsibility and begin to transition people from the kiddie table into the real, adult world of self-reliance.

      They obviously can do it. We just have to step aside a bit and let them cut their own meat and make their own decisions while we actively cheer them on.

      It’ll require a collective effort, but that’s O.K. We’re all in this together. After all, we truly are part of the Human Family.

      Dangerously Out Of Kilter

      The first, very first, thing God did was work an honest week. It’s true! Dedication to the task became pride of accomplishment, which was then followed by Sabbath rest. Wanting to share the joy, God immediately sent man to tend a garden that we, too, might reap the same benefits. Most of us get it. Most of us understand that the best feeling in the world is receiving good pay for a job done well.

      Regrettably, however, there are those who don’t. They skip over the part about working and want to go directly to rest. They want to enjoy the fruits of labor, just long as it’s not their labor. So, they pile on and take a free ride on those who pull their weight through the sweat of their brow. Accordingly, honest wage earners

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