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05/23/15 Weekend Grif.Net – Memorial Day Obituary

05/23/15 Weekend Grif.Net – Memorial Day Obituary

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.”

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; Romney=31
Square miles of land won by: Obama=580,000; Romney=2,427,000
Population of counties won by: Obama=127 million; Romney=143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Obama=13.2; Romney=2.1

Professor Olson adds: “In aggregate, the map of the territory Romney 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
40% 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”, as if a title of honor), and they vote, the US
Republic as we know it will be gone in fewer than five years.

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Dr Bob Griffin
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