i thought this quote was appropriate given how things are going nowadays...
05-31-2007 | 01:10 PM
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i thought this quote was appropriate given how things are going nowadays...
In 1787 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh has this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some two thousand years earlier:
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 can discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on the majority always vote for the candidates who promise them the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy which is always followed by a dictatorship.
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 can discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on the majority always vote for the candidates who promise them the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy which is always followed by a dictatorship.
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05-31-2007 | 01:56 PM
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you realize that most chinese make jack squat
the chinese government controls every aspect of the economy
they also keep the yuan grossly undervalued so as to have the upper hand
china is a terrible example you tard
