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To: t1b8zs

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.


19 posted on 05/17/2011 2:56:18 PM PDT by mgstarr ("Some of us drink because we're not poets." Arthur (1981))
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To: mgstarr

We just need to make sure that that dictator is a RIGHT WING dictator and then we’ll be good.


37 posted on 05/17/2011 3:33:11 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Hail Mary Full of Grace, The Lord Is With Thee...)
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