From RH Jones and Eloise Neeley: A quick view of where we are today

From RH Jones, September 10, 2006

Subject: Re: THIS IS INTERESTING YOU CAN SEE IN A HURRY WHERE WE ARE.

Eloise,

I read this article before. But thanks for sending it anyway. Things can go to far when capitalism goes out-of-control like it did in the great depression -- that I remember well. Before the depression there were 2 classes, the rich and the poor. The rich were not taxed much either. Most of us were poor. Teachers were paid very little. We mostly lived on farms. Government was small.The election of FDR brought us out of it, and a huge middle class came about. And then war years were forced onto us by the Axis powers. Jobs and prosperity came about both because of Roosevelt's back to work policies before the war and the war itself brought many jobs, especially for newly employed women and blacks.

For today's times, in my view, requires some regulation of capitalism. For that matter, no extremes right or left. We can not have the highs 1920's and the lows of the 1930's. Public tax support of education, police/fire/military, care of the infirm and the helpless, and an infrastructure that all has to be part of our civilization. The checks and balances are there now; people just have to get out and vote.

I am of the feeling that the America of our times is unique among nations, and will survive. Our Amended Constitution offers freedom to everyone. The Golden Age of Greece and early America was supported by slavery. The Civil War came and we were able to throw off slavery. Greece did not make everyone citizens and their government failed. We have checks and balances now that will allow us to prosper in freedom for al -- if we do not let racism get in our way.

In the next election, we will throw out those who think they are a privileged class; those who think they are entitled to rule over all the rest of us and to use our religion to gain votes, but then fail to follow through with hearts. No more GOP (Greedy Old Politicians) for me, I am going back to the party of the people.

RHJones

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From Eloise Neeley, September 8, 2006

Subject: THIS IS INTERESTING YOU CAN SEE IN A HURRY WHERE WE ARE.

INTERESTING!

About the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution, in 1787, 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 due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship."

"The average age of the worlds greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:

1. From bondage to spiritual faith;

2. From spiritual faith to great courage;

3. From courage to liberty;

4. From liberty to abundance;

5. From abundance to complacency;

6. From complacency to apathy;

7. From apathy to dependence;

8. From dependence back into bondage "

9. On its way:

Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election:

Population of counties won by: Gore: 127 million; Bush: 143 million; Square miles of land won by: Gore: 580,0 00; Bush: 2,427,000

States won by: Gore: 19; Bush: 29

Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Gore: 13.2; Bush: 2.1

Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush won was mostly the land owned by the tax-paying citizens of this great country. Gore's territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off government welfare..."

Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some
40 percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.

Pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.

PS . #9 If the Senate grants Amnesty and citizenship to 20 million criminal invaders called illegals and they vote, then goodbye USA. in less than 5 years.