[Grovenet] The Former USA???

[AumaMarie at aol.com]

Another topic for  discussion.  


 
 
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 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 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 illegal's and  they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in 
fewer  than five years. 
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






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