Interesting email I received. I agree with most of it and it seems

[Booster]

we are right on target with what this guy says:




I can't verify this to be fact, you need to check that out!!!!! Interesting if true.



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."

"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 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 taxpaying citizens of this great country. Gore's territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare."

Olson be lieves 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 illegals and they vote, then goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.

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

[niyad]

1. I'm pretty sure this was debunked ages ago--at least as far as

gore/bush stats. will check to see if I still have it somewhere.

[FloridaPat]

2. Seems I remember someone pointing out that the blue states

pay the most taxes and the red states have the most welfare.

[rwheeler31]

3. wrong and ugly

nt

[BattyDem]

4. Some of the "facts" are not accurate

http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/tyler.asp

[mcscajun]

5. This kind of opening is disingenuous, and is a Red Flag to me:

"I can't verify this to be fact, you need to check that out!!!!! Interesting if true."

I have a habit of verifying things before I send them around the 'Net. Lies and distortions wing around the world twenty times faster than one verified fact, unfortunately. Lies and distortions are nearly impossible to correct out in the ether; it's like trying to decapitate a Hydra.