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You have likely read all of the below, in one
form or another, but it's one of those things that bears
repeating. BTW, this is a non-partisan statement, inasmuch as
both political parties live to spend. If there is a difference,
it's that the tax-spend mentality is wired into the Democrat's
DNA, while Republicans are suffering from a virus from which recovery
is possible. This is something to E-mail generously (without my
comments).
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About the time
our original 13 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 prior:
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"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 due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed
by a dictatorship." |
"The average age of the worlds greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years.
During those 200 years, these 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:
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Population of counties won by: Gore: 127 million;? Bush: 143 million;
Square miles of land won by: Gore: 580,000; Bush: 2,427,000 States won
by: Gore: 19; Bush: 29 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
tax-paying citizens of this great country. Gore's territory mostly
encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and
living off 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 40 percent of the nation's population already
having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.
PS #9 If the Senate grants Amnesty and citizenship to 20 million
criminal invaders called illegal’s and they vote, then goodbye USA in
less than 5 years
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Mother Superior
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