I received this in an email today - something to think about.
HOW LONG DO WE HAVE?
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. 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: 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 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 illegal's and they vote, then we can say
goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years
HOW LONG DO WE HAVE?
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. 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: 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 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 illegal's and they vote, then we can say
goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years
