Snip ~ "Stage 1 -- a sense of "legal" entitlement -- that is endemic to the population ...
And Snip ~ The 18th-century British lawyer referenced above was Alexander Tytler. He observed: "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 world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years."
May 22, 2012
What 'Three Little Pigs' tells us about America's future
The author argues that the United States is on a path of decline due to its reliance on entitlement programs and the refusal to change that dependence.
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