2008 Soap Box Archives

The Point of No Return

There is much disagreement as to who said the words in the next few paragraphs. Many people attribute them to an eighteenth century Scotsman named Alexander Tytler, but regardless of the author, when taken literally and applied to today, they are chilling to say the least.

"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 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 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 those 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 into bondage"

I have long felt there is an element among the left wing of American politics whose interest is creating a formidable voting block, a herd of sheep if you will, which neither looks at issues or international politics but at which party and candidates are going to give them the most entitlements.

Case in point, welfare. Look at what happened in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit. The people in some districts of the city had become so dependent on the government they couldn't do anything for themselves. They just sat it out and waited for someone to come and get them.

While the people of the Mississippi South coast immediately started picking up the pieces and rebuilding their communities and the people of the Midwest were on the scene the day after the recent storms, salvaging what they could and making plans to get on with their lives, the unfortunate people of New Orleans were bussed to other cities where they immediately swelled the public relief rolls and the crime statistics.

Who do you think they vote for in an election?

Case in point, illegal immigration.

Fact 1: Somewhere between 11 to 22 million dollars are spent on welfare to illegal aliens by state governments every year.

Fact 2: Over 2 million dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs for illegals.

Fact 3: Two and a half billion dollars a year is spend on Medicaid for illegals

Fact 4: Twelve billion dollars a year is spent on the education of children who are here illegally and cannot speak English.

And the list goes on, but you get the idea.

Who do you think these people are going to vote for if, or I should probably say when they become eligible?

The massive health care proposals being put forth by Barack Hussein Obama are nothing more than Socialized medicine.

His tax rate-hiking proposals are nothing less than income redistribution.

If Barack Obama gets into office and is able to implement the Socialist programs he proposes, I don't know if he and his kind will ever be voted out of office again.

Because every day he is in office the number of those feeding at the public trough will grow and eventually approach critical mass until we reach the point of no return.

This bears repeating:

"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury."

What do you think?

Pray for our troops

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels

July 7, 2008