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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Frank Griffin who wrote (6681)11/18/2000 11:48:57 PM
From: opalapril  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 10042
 
Frank is a very smart guy, trapped O'Reilly into admitting he had all the county numbers, made him read Orange county, and then O'Reilly had to concede Frank's point - even though O'Reilly controlled the mike! Can't say much more than O'Reilly is just a shallow media clown.

And no, I've heard nothing about a cabinet post for Frank. I tend to doubt he would be interested.



To: Frank Griffin who wrote (6681)11/18/2000 11:53:00 PM
From: TideGlider  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 10042
 
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until
the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the Public Treasury.
From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most
benefits from the Public Treasury with a result that a democracy always collapses over
loose fiscal policy always followed by dictatorship. The average age of the world's
greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have 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 Selfishness
From Selfishness to Complacency
From Complacency to Apathy
From Apathy to Dependency
From Dependency back into Bondage"

. . .Alexander Tytler "Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic"