Richard Vail

Democracy Vs Benefits



Posted: Thursday, October 01, 2009

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Chisel & Plane

This is something I've been thinking about for quite some time. Ever since I read the quote below a number of years ago. Democracy is a very fragile thing. It will only last as long as we can keep our greedy fingers out of the cookie jar. Unfortunately, we've just elected a Congress you have shoved both hands into the jar and are greedily trying to gobble down everything in sight. Two hundred years ago, a British professor named Alexander Fraser Tyler wrote:
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can exist only until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess (defined as a liberal gift) out of the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a dictatorship

What this means is that democracy isn't permanent in nature. It cannot exist as a form of government permanently. A democracy will exist until the time that voters realize they can give themselves generous gifts from the public fisc. Literally, from that moment, the majority will always vote and elect those candidates who promise to give to the electorate the most benefits from the public treasury. The end result is that every democracy will finally collapse due to corrupt fiscal policy. This is always followed by a dictatorship. That's what has occur ed in Venezuela, and it is in it's opening stages here. Throughout history, the average age of the world's best civilizations from the beginning of recorded history has been roughly 200-250 years. During those years, these civilisations have always progressed through this 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 back into bondage.

We are now in the realm of abundance to complacency...we have elected a group of legislators who are literally robbing our grand/great grand children's pockets in order to give "bread and circuses" now. They have chosen to be completely irresponsible, spending money we don't have, as a way to avoid raising taxes to pay for all they goodies they think we need to have. Unfortunately, when they wipe out our ability to borrow, the crash will come...

I used to think that the "crash" was 20 years off...but now, I believe that it is only a few years off. The Democratically led Congress seems hell-bound to wreck our economy this year. Between seizing control of the financial sector last fall, the automobile industry (which they then turned over to UAW-their labour union cronies), and now their blatant attempt to gather in the health insurance/health care industry (1/6th of our economy). Once "Cap & Trade" is enacted in the next few weeks (your electric bills will gain more than $1,700.00 per household), they will have turned a deep recession into an all out depression.

This depression will then rapidly spread to the rest of the world. Once we (the most productive country in the world) stop producing, much less buying the products of the rest of the world...things will come to a halt. Unfortunately, this coming economic train wreck will be far worse than the "Great Depression" of the 1930's and 1940's. But I strongly suspect, that this is what the far-left desires.
Rich, a veteran of the USMC, grew up in NW Florida (aka LA-lower Alabama), has lived all over the eastern US...before finally in Maryland in 2004.  Rich writes and edits www.thevailspot.blogspot.com. Take a look at his blog for more articles.
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» left by efoghorjos
from Bonny Island, Nigeria 2 years 1 day ago.
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Great work of long time of research. It's good policy makers in a democracy should make policies that would not be cashed upon to loot the national treasury. Everyone should benefit mutually.
» left by Richard Vail 2 years 1 day ago.
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Welcome to searchwarp sir. Yes, everyone should benefit mutually, but when you take too much from one group, then give too much to another that route is disasterous.
 
A good example is Zimbabwe...that country used to be the bread basket of southern Africa. But through irresponsible policies, for instance, seizing the large plantation farms, the literally giving them to Robert Mugabe's urban supporters, who didn't know the first thing about farming, they stopped producing not just enough food for export, but for the country itself. While there are a number of other issues involved there, that one alone has caused the greatest mischief.
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