Lifespan of a Republic

 This article was e-mailed to me and is on the Internet. I added commentary.

Lifespan of a Republic:

About the time our original 13 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 prior:

"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 that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes 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 worlds greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:

From bondage to spiritual faith;

From spiritual faith to great courage;

From courage to liberty;

From liberty to abundance;

From abundance to complacency;

From complacency to apathy;

From apathy to dependence;

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:

Population of counties won by: Gore: 127 million; Bush: 143 million;

Square miles of land won by: Gore: 580,000; Bush: 2,427,000

States won by: Gore: 19 Bush: 29

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 tax-paying citizens of this great country. Gore's territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off 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 40 percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.

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Reply to Margot

Hi Margot,

I'm replying to you through my blogsite because of its length.

Jack

Your concerns are well taken and mirror the worries I've had if impeachment was to come about. The sentiment for that is not strong enough at this time. But with the bent that Obama is on to bring about full blown Socialism or - perish the thought - Communism and despotism, that sentiment might grow with the electorate and the press.  Hopefully, they'll wake up before it's too late. 


While the video the below link brings up showing Obama telling an audience (before he knew what he shouldn't be saying) that he was born in Kenya would not likely to be useful in a court of law, it is powerful about convincing the court of public opinion. Sometimes that court has strong influence on the legal system. Keep in mind when you watch this video that it would not be an issue if he was born into a U. S. military family when he was born in Kenya.

We presently seem to be studying what our choice of poisons should be: to simply sweat out what a foreign agent is going to be doing to this country till 2012 or to work to send him back to Chicago to do community service and risk the chaos that would be brought about by his adoring disciples.

It's not only Obamacare and what it will do to the private health care system, but the formula he's following to destroy the economy and create the impression that only government can solve our problems. One of the largest skimmers in the world was still moored in Norfolk harbor as late as 6/28, over two months after the gulf oil spill as the oil washed onto the shores of Louisiana and Mississippi. And that's not because Obama is stupid. It's because he has an agenda. Rahm Emanuel's comment from the Karl Marx playbook that, "You never want a crisis to go to waste," was appropriately made use of on that occasion - milk the crisis for all it's worth.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwhKuunp8D8&feature=player_embedded

Obama born in Kenya

Obama says he was born in Kenya:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwhKuunp8D8&feature=player_embedded

This is something I wrote in March but never did post in my blogsite.  The national debt the pundits were forecasting at the time has already exceeded their expectations. 

3/28/10 3:40 PM


A thought:

The people who stand behind Obama in worshipping adulation, clapping, cheering and laughing as he wends his glib tongue, talking to a carefully selected audience, will one day find their cheers turning to jeers. Wait till they get the bill for the "Christmas gifts" they thought they got for nothing.

They were bought cheap - but not the nation. It's on track to go the way every other Republic has gone.......And right on schedule. A program on the History Channel a year or so ago indicated that no Republic in history has lasted much more than two hundred years. And they never did catch up with their indebtedness. The national debt for the United States will soon be twelve trillion dollars and by 2020 we're hearing that it is expected to be twenty trillion.

Who's responsible?

9/14/10

Another reminder - try this on for size and see, right from the "horses mouth," who did and who didn't want Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac regulated -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMnSp4qEXNM

Economy no inheritance

This is a note I sent to Megyn Kelly:

Here he goes again. I scoffed at the idea that Obama inherited this economy the first time he made the claim and I never stopped being irritated with his charge with every speech he ever makes. And he said it again today.


This was no inheritance. Election day of 2006 gave the Democrats a filibuster proof "House" and with the help of a RINO from Vermont, full control of the Senate.

Doesn't anyone ever think about the effect the economic war the oil producing countries waged on us throughout 2008 when they gradually raised the price of their oil to the peak of $147.00 a barrel? Nothing ever had a greater impact on the economy than that - not only here but worldwide. Their target may have been the U. S. but it hurt everyone else as well.  And, aside from Glenn Beck who did make some cursory mention of it on at least two occasions, I'm not aware of any of the political commentators mentioning it. The fault for us not being energy independent has to be laid right at the door of the Democrats.

The Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 gave us 46 months of economic growth and an unemployment rate for most his term five percent or lower. As late as November of 2008 after the dampener the cost of energy products put on households and industry the unemployment rate was 6.5%.

Collective Salvation

 
George Washington:


"If once people become inattentive to public affairs, you and I and congress and assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.”

Thomas Jefferson:

“I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats, and FROTHY ELOQUENCE neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have to show me.”

These quotes are sidebars to an article on the Internet. The article and the statements by Washington and Jefferson can be seen by Googling, POPE BENEDICT XVI - COLLECTIVE SALVATION.

Pope Benedict begins by saying, “Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but demonic.”