How Long Do We Have?

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 o f 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 and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than
Five years.

If you are in favor of this then delete this message if you are not then Pass
This along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing that
Apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.
Thanks for reading.

Comments: 6

Casey Dennis Jan 31, 2008, 4:59pm EST

According to Stephen Hawking, we have until 2050. He predicts that by then we will be taken out (everybody, that is) by some sort of disaster, most likely biological and most likely by our own making.

And that's my happy thought for the day.