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We are in desperate need of oversight in this country. Make sure your Dem pals and moderate Republicans send a message to DC. We will no longer stand for the lies and down right lack of concern for the middle class.

2006-11-06 19:03:05 · 7 answers · asked by 2ndst 1 in Politics & Government Elections

Angie - before you cut and paste your answers check them out. Not all the facts in your answer seem to be correct. Par for the course it seem . Please review this link http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/tyler.asp

2006-11-06 19:31:31 · update #1

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Campaign aggressively for your candidates even when it is the last night before the election.

2006-11-06 19:19:26 · answer #1 · answered by FRAGINAL, JTM 7 · 1 0

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:
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 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.

If the Senate grants Amnesty and citizenship to 20 million criminal invaders called illegals and they vote, then goodbye USA in less than 5 years.

2006-11-06 19:19:46 · answer #2 · answered by Angie P. 6 · 1 1

angie is typical of the rest of the right-wing nuts out there...quoting crud some bozo e-mailed her without checking the source OR the facts...i get about a dozen of these internet myths sent to me every week...as a thinking american, i check it out before i go spouting off...conservatives just fall for and repeat anything their pals at faux 'news' make up for them...it's easier than thinking...

2006-11-06 22:10:01 · answer #3 · answered by spike missing debra m 7 · 0 1

Let the truth be known that the government is ruled by the people and not vice versa.

2006-11-06 19:07:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

I'm voting a straight Dem ticket.

2006-11-06 19:11:42 · answer #5 · answered by Red 4 · 2 1

As they used to say in Chicago---"Vote early and often."

2006-11-06 21:58:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

ur all a bunch of crazy liberals! im voting straight rep.

2006-11-06 19:13:01 · answer #7 · answered by angeleyez1655 1 · 1 3

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