How long do we have?

[dewman]

How Long Do We Have?

This is the most interesting thing I've read in a long time. The sad thing about it, you can see it coming.

I have always heard about this democracy countdown. It’s interesting to see it in print.

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 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 will always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result being 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.

8. From dependence back into bondage.”

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 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 40 percent of the nation's population already having reached the 'governmental dependency' phase.

If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to 20 million criminal invaders called illegals and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.

If you are in favor of this message, pass it along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.

Thanks for reading.

Dewman

[knife7knut]

As the wise man once said to the people:" The two greatest factors in the downfall of man is,"APATHY" and,"IGNORANCE" ".whereupon the people were heard to say," GEE;I NEVER KNEW THAT, BUT THEN AGAIN I REALLY DON'T CARE!"

My wife's standard reply,"BUY MORE BULLETS!"

[Gr8Scout]

Snopes:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/tyler.asp

I don't have access to the data or the time to do it, but perhaps I could find in researching that there are just as many people getting government assistance of one sort or another in BushLand as there is in GoreWorld. Are the phrases 'Living off Government Welfare' or 'Government Dependency' dirty words? Ask a veteran drawing combat related disibility pay. Ask yourself if you get a federal tax deduction on your home mortgage payments.

[dewman]

Yikes! It would appear as if I've been had....and I'm guilty of passing along an e-mail that was very untrue. Perhaps I'd do well to investigate such things much more closely before passing them along. Much like gossip, eh?

My apologies.

Dewey