Proud American
Joined: 19 Jun 2006 Posts: 42 Location: Arizona
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Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 12:48 am Post subject: Will This Be Us? |
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I hope you read all of this but whatever you do don't miss the last three paragraphs.
Our country as we know it may be closer to going down the drain than most of us realize. "5 years" ???
Interested in statistics? How about these:
How Long Do We Have?
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:
"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:
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.
If the Senate grants Amnesty and citizenship to 20 million
criminal invaders called illegals and they vote, then goodbye
USA in less than 5 years. |
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