Post by Mary on Jan 7, 2008 19:45:40 GMT -7
To All;
This is the most interesting thing I've read in a long time. I received this in an e-mail, so I can't verify it's origin. I didn't post this for a controversy, just an interesting read.
I have always heard about this democracy countdown. It is
interesting to see it in print.
God help us,
Mary
> 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. 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 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 illegals and they vote, then we can say
> goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.
>
>
>
Apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.
This is the most interesting thing I've read in a long time. I received this in an e-mail, so I can't verify it's origin. I didn't post this for a controversy, just an interesting read.
I have always heard about this democracy countdown. It is
interesting to see it in print.
God help us,
Mary
> 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. 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 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 illegals and they vote, then we can say
> goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.
>
>
>
Apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.