*This will make you think !!!!!!!!!!!!!*
*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
is interesting to see it in print. God help us, not
that we deserve it.** *
*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;** ** ** *
*8. **
f rom dependence back into bondage'** ** ** *
*Professor Joseph Olson of **Hemline** University **
School of Law, St. Paul , Minnesota *
*points out some interesting facts concerning the 2008 Presidential
election:** ** ** ***
*Number **of States won by:* *Democrats: 19* *Republicans: **29*
*Square miles of land won by:* *Democrats: 580,000 *
*Republicans: 2,427,000** ** ** ***
*Population **
of counties won by:* *Democrats: 127 million *
*Republicans: 143 million** ** ** ***
*Murder **
rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: *
*Democrats: 13.2** **Republicans: 2.1** ** ** ***
*Professor **
Olson adds: 'In aggregate, the map of the territory
Republican won was mostly the land owned by the
taxpaying citizens of this great country. Democrat
territory mostly encompassed those citizens living
in government-owned tenements and living off various
forms of government welfare..' Olson believes the
United States
is 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.** ** ** *
*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.** ** ** *
*If **
you are in favor of this, then by all means, delete
this message. If you are not, then pass this along
to help everyone realize just how much is at stake,
knowing that apathy is the greatest dang er to our freedom.** ** ** *
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