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How Long Does the USA Have?

by Power User Lueda Towery on July 17, 2011
  
  This is  the most interesting thing I've read in a long time. The sad thing about it, you  can see it coming. 

I have  always heard about this democracy countdown. It is interesting to see it in  print. God help us, not that we deserve it. 

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.'
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Power User Dennis Essman · Become a Fan

Amazing how history repeats itself so often because men do not learn from their mistakes.

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Power User Lueda Towery · Become a Fan

Correct.

4 months ago