Monday, August 23, 2010

240 year old Quote...pretty eerie huh?

“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…”

Alexander Fraser Tytler, Scottish lawyer and writer, 1770


Amazing Mr. Tytler didn't even know about Nancy Pelosi's wardrobe or Rangle's hidden beach-house....as the late Johnny Carson used to say "Weird, Wild stuff!"

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