An Obituary for a Country

In  1887 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 over 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, 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."
The Obituary  follows:

Born 1776, Died  2012
It doesn't  hurt to read this several times.

Professor Joseph  Olson of Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul ,
Minnesota, points out some  interesting facts concerning the last Presidential
election:

Number of States won  by: Obama: 19 McCain: 29
Square miles of land  won by: Obama: 580,000 McCain: 2,427,000
Population of  counties won by: Obama: 127 million McCain: 143 million
Murder rate per  100,000 residents in counties won by: Obama: 13.2 McCain:
2.1

Professor Olson  adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory McCain won
was mostly the land  owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country.
Obama territory  mostly encompassed those citizens living in low income
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.