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sgt8089
06-15-07, 10:18 AM
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 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.

sparkie
06-28-07, 04:38 PM
I have a theory.. Put 2 mice in a cage, male and female. Feed them, let them breed and become overcrowded, Just before the point where they start to go insane and kill each other... they will vote democ.rat

F4Winger
06-29-07, 10:07 AM
Urban legand:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/tyler.asp

jetdawgg
06-29-07, 10:15 AM
I have a theory.. Put 2 mice in a cage, male and female. Feed them, let them breed and become overcrowded, Just before the point where they start to go insane and kill each other... they will vote democ.rat

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u17/jetdawgg/sheeple.gif

sparkie
06-29-07, 10:20 AM
Demo.graphics

jetdawgg
06-29-07, 10:22 AM
Demo.graphics

:D

sparkie
04-11-09, 07:05 AM
Bump,,,,,,,,AHH,,The good old days,,,,,,,

mcvet57103
04-11-09, 09:10 AM
Bump,,,,,,,,AHH,,The good old days,,,,,,,Amazing how that original thread was almost 2 years ago, and rings more true today than it did then. SF

OLE SARG
04-11-09, 12:03 PM
I have a theory.. Put 2 mice in a cage, male and female. Feed them, let them breed and become overcrowded, Just before the point where they start to go insane and kill each other... they will vote democ.rat

Damn sparkie, you made me spew my coffee all over my monitor!!!!!!!!!!! Oh well, it needed cleaning anyway!!!!

SEMPER FI BROTHER, :D

Sgt Leprechaun
04-11-09, 08:55 PM
I remember it and it was funny then as well.

But now more than ever, sadly true.

sparkie
04-11-09, 09:09 PM
I remember Leviticus {sp], Nothing new under the sun.]Tomorrow is the celebration of my Lord rising from the grave,,,,,,And I'll probly be too hung over to attend the least of the revelry,,,,, Am I more sad? Or are you? Excuse my spirit, Brothers,,,,, I long for the First Love,,,,,,,,,of this I cry. Remember Bros??????? It don't mean nuthin. Let the country burn. Doc Greek,Fist, Help me the fuk out.

DocGreek
04-11-09, 10:55 PM
KEN....we're ALL right beside you to give you the support you need. The life WE have lived...most people would have quit...long ago. That's NOT B.S.!! Dealing with our everyday problems, is much more difficult, and WE'RE NOT QUITTERS!!! If I was there, with you, we'd lite up a bowl, and kick back....sharing our memories...good, and bad. Do NOT have any regrets!! Can't change our past, so we should give our best....TODAY! I'm with you, Bro!......DOC