How long do we have left?

TruWrecks

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*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: Democrats: 19 Republicans: 29*

*Square miles of land won by: Democrats: 580,000 Republicans: 2,427,000*

*Population of counties won by: Democrats: 127 million Republicans: 143 million*

*Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Democrats: 13.2 Republicans: 2.1*

*Professor Olson adds: 'In aggregate, the map of the territory Republican won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great country. Democrat 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.*[/quote]

Kind of scary when you know where where the hand-basket is headed.
 
You Know..........AH NEVERMIND !!!!!!!!!!  

The Middle Class is Getting Erased !!!

Either Your Rich or Poor, Honest or a Dishonest, Taker or a Contributor, Sinner or a Saint..... Just My 2 Cents !!!
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I really don't care if the source is true.  I know the direction of our country is on that path.
Your perception is that you know the direction our country is headed.

Dont get me wrong, a lot of the information in the article sounds reasonable, however I have issues with the disemination of inacurate or false information. And it seems like quotes and referances in this article are inaccurate and misleading.

I think it is a combination of how our countries news media has gotten out of control and it has gotten to the point that the integrity of the news is questionable to the point that you cant really trust anything being said in the news media.

Couple that with the fact that I work in the computer security field and information integrity is important and near and dear to my heart. Disinformation has allways been used in warfare and in the technology age it is easy to pass inacurate information in order to manuipulate situations for the benafit of an individual or a country.

Then if you couple the initial release of inacuarte information with the fact that humans tend to change stories they here anyway, information can be easily transformed into something totally inacurate.


So please dont take it personal when I do a snopes check, or I bring attention to something that is in accacurate, i do it to everyone, on this board, at home, at work.

If my wife sends me forwards I snope it and if it snopes out false I let her know it is not true and recomend to her she doesnt forward it to anyone else. She is now even snoping out things that are sent to her.

And being an admin on this board, and since my life pretty much revolves around data and message inegrity, I feel it is sort of my responsability to ensure information is either accurate or point out it might not be accurate when I run across information in question.

So please dont take it personal, it is just my nature.
 
I am not saying I believe any of it one way or another. But I just read the Snopes article and what I found interesting is that they posted their response of its truth and untruth based upon information sent to them from someone else through an email. And, they admitted they didn't check it out either. So, who's to say if it is right or if it isn't. Apparently, we don't know that for sure as it is all hearsay!
 
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