This is a republic not a democracy. As my quote for today courtesy of Harry S Truman states, "Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship." Or as a professor in England stated about 1787, when we were writing our Constitution, "A Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can exist only 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 every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.

The average age of the world's greate...

This is a republic not a democracy. As my quote for today courtesy of Harry S Truman states, "Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship." Or as a professor in England stated about 1787, when we were writing our Constitution, "A Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can exist only 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 every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.

The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been about 200 years. These nations always progressed through this sequence:

from BONDAGE to SPIRITUAL FAITH; from spiritual faith 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 DEPENDENCY; from dependency back into BONDAGE." Professor Alexander Tytler (Lord Woodhouselee)

This is why willhelm's clip on Why Everyone Should Be in Favor of Reducing Taxes on the Rich is so timely. When Lyndon Johnson got enacted the preliminary laws in "The War on Poverty," we started down this slippery slope.

Perhaps the phrase " afraid of their people" is a bit strong, however, in Germany the Chancellor A. Merkel and even Sarcozy in France are very much "afraid" or very, very nervous at least, not to raise hackles with the Unions and their opposition too much. Huge demonstrations with numbers that seem out of this world here in the US, for or against something, strikes that shut down a country, yes they are afraid of the will of their people. Democracy is not static, it is evolutionary, fluid in it's dynamic, or stagnant as the level of participation drops as it did in the US since the 70ties. Democratic notions from 17hundreds, the Greeks or other ideas along those lines, represent the level of...

Perhaps the phrase " afraid of their people" is a bit strong, however, in Germany the Chancellor A. Merkel and even Sarcozy in France are very much "afraid" or very, very nervous at least, not to raise hackles with the Unions and their opposition too much. Huge demonstrations with numbers that seem out of this world here in the US, for or against something, strikes that shut down a country, yes they are afraid of the will of their people. Democracy is not static, it is evolutionary, fluid in it's dynamic, or stagnant as the level of participation drops as it did in the US since the 70ties. Democratic notions from 17hundreds, the Greeks or other ideas along those lines, represent the level of a culture at a specific point in time. It will move forward or backward or not. Democracy without physical participation will not work very well. Like a garden, it needs tending at all times. We in America have been lulled, misled, diabolically misinformed and scared into submission. Not so the French Worker, the German Worker, the Italian Worker. Check the parliamentary System in Daenemark. Very interesting indeed. I could go on for hours and at great length, but perhaps no one will read anyway. Eyh?