How Long Do We Have?

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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 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.
 
I HATE IT WHEN THAT HAPPENS!!!!!! We should all vote for Constitution party candidates and get this potentially great country headed back in the right direction.
 
Well I have long held the belief that if you do not own realestate in this great country you should not be able to vote. If you are not born here you should not be able to vote no matter how much realestate you own.

I do not agree with his doom and gloom outcome T.
 
LAST EDITED ON May-09-07 AT 06:34AM (MST)[p]I think having a modicum of education (Spelling, grammar etc.) should be required before a person is allowed to vote.

bEaNmAn
 
>LAST EDITED ON May-09-07
>AT 06:34?AM (MST)

>
>I think having a modicum of
>education (Spelling, grammar etc.) should
>be required before a person
>is allowed to vote.
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>bEaNmAn

Well if that were the case, 202 and Tfinal would not be able to vote at all. Those two are a couple of the worst spellers ever! lol

It's H-y-p-o-c-r-i-s-y, 202. That's how it's spelled.

;-) Just razzin' ya, boys. I know what you mean even when it's misspelled.
 
Trips, you said:

"Those two are a couple of the worst spellers ever!"

I think youre wrong, I AM the worst speller ever!
 
We have a lot longer than you think.

But I totally disagree with you 202 on your view that only property owners should be able to vote. That's an oligarchy, not a democracy.

UTROY
Proverbs 21:19 (why I hunt!)
 
LMAO Well TripK I will have to agree. But I spell way worser than Tfinal. I am a search and destroy two finger typer. I have to look down at the keys so I never actually read anything I type until after I post it. Proof reading takes to long, besides I feel comfortable with the fact that I am not alone on this board. LMAO...........I love MM like you guys have no idea how much.

There needs to be a MM'er party somewhere so we can all meet up and put back a few cold ones over a real camp fire. :)
 
Amen 02. why dont you buy a big ranch here in montana and invite all your friends over . . .
 

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