HOW LONG DO WE HAVE?
This is the most interesting thing I've read in a long time. This was written several years ago, but comming on fast now in 2009. 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. 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 the 12-20 million criminal invaders called illegals and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years. We have become the garbage can where other countries deposit their waste; uneducated un-American vagabonds residing illegally and supported by hard working, over-taxed, fiscally abused legal residents of a country with long standing laws that were supposed to protect those legal residents from the criminal actions of the current "complacency and apathy" of our Administration and Congress.

Our own elected representatives have refused to support our nations "legal rights", failed to use "our" public treasury responsibly and failed to uphold the laws that were created to protect "us".

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. Doing nothing simply allows the "liberal" thinkers like Al Gore and most of the Democrats to continue to press for foolish, handout social programs that bind the masses, making them even more dependant upon our government.