Posted: 1/4/2007 1:20:25 PM EDT
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How Long Do We Have? About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier: "A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government."; "A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury."; "From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship." "The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years." "During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence: 1. From bondage to spiritual faith; 2. From spiritual faith to great courage; 3. From courage to liberty; 4. From liberty to abundance; 5. From abundance to complacency; 6. From complacency to apathy; 7. From apathy to dependence; 8. From dependence back into bondage" Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election: 1. Number of States won by: Gore: 19; Bush: 29 2. Square miles of land won by: Gore: 580,000; Bush: 2,427,000 3. Population of counties won by: Gore: 127 million; Bush: 143 million 4. Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Gore: 13.2; Bush: 2.1 Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great country. Gore's territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..." Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase. If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegals and they vote, then we may say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years. Pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom!!!!! I have agree with most of this. 1 or 2 pts could have be taken as a policitial spin. |
Ahh dang... You have a knack for making me look dumb  ... or maybe I have a knack... who knows.I guess I dont spend enough time on the internet to know when the bull shit comes arround. 
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Actually I found it in another forum and people were dicussing it. oh well. BEHOLD THE POWER OF THE INTERNET!!! |
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I saw one empire fall apart around me. Now, I feel like I am moving back to USSR in the hurry just this time I am not actually moving. Whole country is moving around me, moving straight into unsustainable socialism. I think we have, at the most 10 years. there are events I see in the news that make me think even less than 10 years, much less. |