[billyboy]

How Long Do We Have?



This is interesting. 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.



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 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 illegals and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA

in fewer than five years.