Some of my biggest questions get answered, flush with wisdom
by Shane McRae
As far as violence in the streets goes, that perhaps depends on who wins. I am a huge Ron Paul supporter but he is probably the one most likely to cause blood in the streets if he wins because he wants to do away with so much of the government aid that people have come to depend on, in many cases for a number of generations. When their subsidies, welfare, etc. are taken away either because of a rational, sensible decision or because there just isn't any more money that is when revolution is highly likely to occur.
Millions of people in many western countries don't know how to live any more without government help. Here in Bali we see the other extreme. If people don't have the money to buy food they go hungry. Somewhere in the middle there would be a humane point at which people are educated, have decent health care, and are supported only when they are truly needy. But that point is difficult to find and never holds for long. Politicians in any democracy very soon learn that they can find ways to buy votes through welfare.
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."
Born 1776, Died 2012
There couldn't be more at stake than on November 6, 2012.
* my appreciation to Jack Boylston for this post
Usury doesn't have to be part of the human condition. But humour does. Thank you Joey.
it is with sadness yet no resignation that I report the status of fox news misinformation
We had fun joining the ranks of political tubers. we'll peep twit it until the next family project presents. Enjoy! Share :-)
Where morals are present laws are unnecessary. Where morals are absent, laws are unenforceable.
