PERHAPS A NOT SO HAPPY 4TH

This post is a reprint of an e-mail my brother sent me. Based on the following, I would not rush to make plans for the 4th of July, 2013.

This sends chills up my spine...

How Long Do We Have?

About the time our original 13 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 votes 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: 580,000; Bush: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by: Gore: 127,000,000 Bush: 143,000,000
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" phases of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some
40 percent of the nation's population already having reached the
"governmental dependency" phase. (I would add that 50% of the population pays 97% of Federal personal income taxes. If after the 2008 elections Democrats control all three branches of government, then soon after a minority of the people will pay 100% of the taxes and the majority will never vote to lower those taxes since they do not pay them.)

If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to 20,000,000 criminal invaders
called illegals and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer
than five years.

Thanks for reading.

For an insightful post about truly understanding Independence Day, I invite my readers to visit Karl's Blog www.leaningstraightup.com and his post "Do we really understand Independence Day. If the link doesn't work you can get to his site from the BlogRoll to the right. It is definitely worth the read.