Thursday, March 29, 2007

How Much Time Do We Have??

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> Very interesting stuff....
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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 alwa ys 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:
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> 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"
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> Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline 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 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 &nb sp; 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.
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> If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to
> twenty
> million criminal invaders called illegal's and they
> vote, then we can
> 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.
> Thanks for reading.

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