To: ProudFossil
Alexander Fraser Tytler
Perhaps what he had in mind was what Prof. Alexander Frazer Tytler has written, that a democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse out of the public treasury. From that moment on the majority, he said, always vote for the candidate promising the most benefits from the treasury with the result that democracy always collpases over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a dictatorship. Unfortunately, we can't argue with the professor because when he wrote that we were still colonials of Great Britain and he was explaining what had destroyed the Athenian Republic more than 2000 years before.
3 posted on
12/31/2012 3:37:46 PM PST by
Cheerio
(Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
To: Cheerio
Santa always wins. Santa doesn’t always bring presents though!
4 posted on
12/31/2012 3:41:03 PM PST by
rawcatslyentist
("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
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