The Daily Skunk

I didn’t write this, but I find it very interesting.

William

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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 fr om 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 g reat 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: 580,000; Bush: 2,42 7,000
>> > 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, wit h 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.