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 Hamline 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: 80,000;
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.
Pass this along to help everyone realize just how
much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the
greatest danger to our freedom.
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 Hamline 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: 80,000;
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.
Pass this along to help everyone realize just how
much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the
greatest danger to our freedom.
