Back in early 2004, my husband gave me an article that I feel is very important for everyone to read as it greatly concerns our freedoms and what is in store for us in the near future.
"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; *this is where we're at today* - about 2 years ago, according to John Stossel of 20/20, 52.6% of Americans are dependent on our govt for assistance (welfare, social security, etc.)
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:
Number of states won by: Gore: 19; Bush: 29
Square miles of land won by: Gore: 580,000; Bush: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by: Gore: 127 million; Bush: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Gore: 13.2; Bush: 2.1
Professor Olsen 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 governement-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..."
Olsen 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. (Note we're now at #7-from apathy to dependence phase)
If Congress grants anmesty an citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegal aliens and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years".
We're almost there - Sharon
1|1|Everyone is welcome to an opinion even if it's inflammatory|glennie58|glenn_scott@alumni.ksg.harvard.edu|12:27:53|10/30/2008|
and presented as fact... 2|1|I totally agree Sharon.. & what's sad is there is no 'new' world to go to|Kristy|mi3zons1@yahoo.com|12:42:47|10/30/2008|
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