Concerns over evolution of US government "ownership" of corporate America

I posted this a while ago with a bogus commentary at the bottom. I will post the relevant portion here because I believe it is germane to the topic.

HOW LONG DO WE HAVE?

About the time our original thirteen 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 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 discover
they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public
treasury.'

'From that moment on, the majority always vote 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 beg
inning of history, has been about 200 years'

'During those 200 years, those 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'

It is my belief we are between #6 & #7 on our way back to the beginning. We expect Uncle sugar to provide us with all we need while giving up our rights because we no longer really want to work; just slop at the trough of what others have earned. Sad really.

Well, when YOU send back your tax refund, SSI or stimulus checks, then you can gripe about freebies. Till then be happy you have the freedom to gripe ( till Communism or JD take over that is...)

-wyatt1sc

Tax refund? What the heck is that? I haven't received a refund in 20 years, they ask for extra on a quarterly basis LOL. Geeze SSI, not that old yet but that would be a fund I have in fact paid into since I was 14 so that money would be my investment into that fund. stimulus check, There was no provision for returning it so I'll get to add it to my income and pay taxes on it at the end of the year I bet. LOLOLOLOL

did that hypnotize anyone else besides me? that should be illegal.

"A very expensive equipment upgrade for the average holders of analog equipment"
Actually it's almost 18 bucks after you get a coupon, but you get more channels for free than before.

"6. >From complacency to apathy;
7. >From apathy to dependence;
8. >From dependence back into bondage'
It is my belief we are between #6 & #7 on our way back to the beginning. We expect Uncle sugar to provide us with all we need while giving up our rights because we no longer really want to work; just slop at the trough of what others have earned. Sad really."

I'm not buying it. If we are so apathetic, then why did we just have one of the largest voter turnouts in U.S. History (approx. 64 percent of the electorate)?

Geez, it is a time to finally be hopeful, and all of you are being so darn fatalistic.

"A very expensive equipment upgrade for the average holders of analog equipment"
Actually it's almost 18 bucks after you get a coupon, but you get more channels for free than before.

"6. >From complacency to apathy;
7. >From apathy to dependence;
8. >From dependence back into bondage'
It is my belief we are between #6 & #7 on our way back to the beginning. We expect Uncle sugar to provide us with all we need while giving up our rights because we no longer really want to work; just slop at the trough of what others have earned. Sad really."

I'm not buying it. If we are so apathetic, then why did we just have one of the largest voter turnouts in U.S. History (approx. 64 percent of the electorate)?

Geez, it is a time to finally be hopeful, and all of you are being so darn fatalistic.

-ibvirginia

Because we are adding on warm fluffy things like, redistribution of wealth, universal health care, inequitable taxation and more government programs. That moves the population further toward dependence. That and there was a very high protest vote which always happens when someone is perceived to have screwed up royally.

We have always redistributed a certain amount of wealth in this country. That is what taxation is, by definition. Inequitable taxation is what we have had for the last eight years.

Of course it was a protest vote, but it was still the largest voter turnout, and we have had many protest votes before.

I remember being very disappointed in 2000, but I sucked it up and gave W a chance. He failed miserably, but I gave him a chance. I wish the right would do the same with Obama. It's not like things are going great now for heaven's sake.