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To: SilentZ who wrote (215795)	1/23/2005 5:27:06 PM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1573540

your'e right Z, liberalism is taking us down that path... Message 20622291 A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.

To: SilentZ who wrote (215795)	1/23/2005 7:34:50 PM
From: RetiredNow	Respond to of 1573540

The U.K. is still around. Their empire is diminished, but they seem to be doing pretty well. The Japanese have been around for millenia. The Chinese have been aroudn for millenia as well. Governments change, but the people endure. The U.S. isn't going to lose its wealth in a generation or two, unless there was a nuclear war. I can imagine a scenario where immigration slows to a trickle and our population ages considerably until we are in a slow decline. But that doesn't seem likely considering that everyone projects immigration will accelerate over the next few decades. John accuses me of a little paranoia, but I think he's overdone it a bit himself with the "End of the American Empire" scenario.