HOW LONG DO WE HAVE?

From an email:

About the time our original thirteen states adopted the new
constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a history professor at the
University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian
Republic some 2,500 years earlier:

"A democracy is always temporary in nature. It simply cannot exist as
a permanent form of government.

"A democracy will exist only until the 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 oppression by the government 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 on the government; and
8. From dependence back to oppression."

Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul,
Minnesota, studied the 2000 Presidential election and came up with the
following statistics:

Number of States won by Gore: 20
Number of States won by Bush: 30

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

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

Professor Olson observed that the map showed that the counties won by
Bush were mostly the rural and smaller city land owned by hard working,
tax-paying citizens with few residents living on welfare.

Most of the counties won by Gore had big cities in which a
significant percentage, if not a majority, of the residents were living
in government-owned tenements and were dependent on various forms of
government welfare.

Olson believes the United States is now in the "complacency and
apathy" stage of Professor Tyler's description of democracy. By 2002,
some forty percent of the nation's population had already reached the
"dependence on the government" stage.

The government is now talking about granting amnesty and citizenship
to twenty million foreign invaders called "illegal immigrants". When they
start voting we can say goodbye to our American democracy.

Pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at
stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.
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