In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinborough, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some
2,000 years prior:
"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 that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for
the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over 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, these nations
always progressed through the following sequence:
From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage."
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Born 1776, Died ?
Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul , Minnesota , points out some interesting facts concerning the last Presidential election:
Number of States won by:
Obama: 19 McCain: 29
Square miles of land won by:
Obama: 580,000 McCain: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by:
Obama: 127 million McCain: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:
Obama: 13.2 McCain: 2.1
Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory McCain won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country.
Obama territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in low income 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 illegal's - and they vote - then we can say goodbye to the US of A in fewer than five years.
Apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.
This is truly scary! Of course we are not a democracy, we are a Constitutional Republic . Someone should point this out to Mr. Obama. Of
course we know he and too many others pay little attention to The Constitution. There couldn't be more at stake this coming Nov 2012.
The same entitled folks that voted Mr. Obama in as President are now blaming Republicans for conservative
fiscal responsibility which in turn removes excess social programs & tax funding. Entitleds will NOT vote for that! How could any fence sitting conservative with any sense EVER vote for "CHANGE" knowing government bureaucracy is rife with tax abuse & senseless paper certification funding? Enough
did in the last election to get this Communist Imposter elected! I've never been so disappointed in Democrats & fence sitting Republicans blindly
voting change to the entirely new "me first" American standards. 2012 will be interesting in many ways. It's doubtful Republicans will replace catatonic Big Government giveaways. It'll sure take more than common sense! Republicans need a fresh face ready for the challenge. Allen West may fit the bill or others. Someone dynamic with common sense values & the ability to convey that unto the population so all Americans can understand how tax dollars work both pro & con. b
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