07-26-2007, 08:28 AM
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Still Figuring It Out.
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 10,858
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Originally Posted by BoredOutOfMyMind
This is a great story of how America was once the greatest country in the world.
NOT a bunch of people expecting FEMA to come bail them out. Oh, and your nice government wasted millions that could have helped others like your sister.
It is not only the Democrats that are in a mess.
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And.. it has been said... and it is true....
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A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.
Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage.
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