How Long Do We Have?
I wouldn't put this here for you to read if I didn't believe it's true. The jump to #3 below on the list is just what we'd like to see the Iraqi people make--at least those of us who want to see the Iraqis win this war so they can live and thrive in a civilized country before we come home. So far, the terrorist element in Iraq and its neighboring countries has held back its leap from spiritual faith to great courage and then on to liberty.
There are so many acts of courage every day that Iraqi citizens could absolutely make the decision to leap to liberty. It doesn't look like they will have as long as it could take them to make the jump, however. The narcissists in the USA are making the political pressure at home insurmountable. They've even preempted General Petraeus' September surge report by becoming loudly impatient--just when it looks like progress is inevitable--and just so the loss can be used as one of their election talking points. They NEED a loss for us in Iraq almost as much as Iran, al Qaeda, and the Wahhabis do. And THEY do not have much time for that.
As far as the United States goes, we have as long as we want to have. It all comes down to whether or not the majority of us want to be dependent on our government for basic needs, or whether we want to provide for ourselves. I'd like to see us back up a little from the complacency position on the list below to the step above: the abundance level.
We've been great in that phase--among the greatest the world has ever seen--and we really could stay there a whole lot longer if we collectively would want abundance more than to have our every need filled by our government. I welcome your thoughts.
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: 2,42 7, 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. Gores 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 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.
There are so many acts of courage every day that Iraqi citizens could absolutely make the decision to leap to liberty. It doesn't look like they will have as long as it could take them to make the jump, however. The narcissists in the USA are making the political pressure at home insurmountable. They've even preempted General Petraeus' September surge report by becoming loudly impatient--just when it looks like progress is inevitable--and just so the loss can be used as one of their election talking points. They NEED a loss for us in Iraq almost as much as Iran, al Qaeda, and the Wahhabis do. And THEY do not have much time for that.
As far as the United States goes, we have as long as we want to have. It all comes down to whether or not the majority of us want to be dependent on our government for basic needs, or whether we want to provide for ourselves. I'd like to see us back up a little from the complacency position on the list below to the step above: the abundance level.
We've been great in that phase--among the greatest the world has ever seen--and we really could stay there a whole lot longer if we collectively would want abundance more than to have our every need filled by our government. I welcome your thoughts.
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: 2,42 7, 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. Gores 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 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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