A friend (who is also retired from the military) passed the following to me. I haven’t checked out the facts (and don’t plan on doing so), so please don’t consider them to be accurate and “quote-worthy”. The reason I post this is because I have heard parts of this before and I have a rather strong opinion on illegal immigration.
My wife is not (yet) American. She had to go through the lengthy process of getting a green card so that she could legally enter and live in the United States. The process is in place for people from other countries to enter and live in our country, and if people want to do so, they should follow that process, regardless of how cumbersome, expensive, and time-consuming it might be.
When I read what my friend had to say in his email, it made me stop and think. Bring in enough illegal immigrants, give them the right to vote — and pretty soon everything we’ve worked hard to build for over 200 years will be gone. The “illegals made legal” will be able to decide for themselves what America will become, and I’m pretty sure that the institutions and values we’ve worked to establish will either be gone or will be a shadow of their former selves.
And with so many people already dependent on the government for their very existence (which, in many cases, destroys initiative and prevents people from finding ways to solve their own problems and contribute to society), there’s no reason to think that the “new government” will do anything to stop the current trend towards redistribution of wealth.
Here’s a message, my fellow Americans: Keep on trying to raise taxes for the rich, keep making it almost impossible to borrow money because of ridiculous lending qualification requirements, and keep letting Congress and our president borrow money that we can’t ever afford to repay — and pretty soon the rich will leave and the middle class will say, “what’s the point?” — and join the ranks of the dependent.
What then?
As someone who put his life on the line to defend America for over 20 years, this “demand” that we open the gates wide for “anybody and everybody” disturbs me and is a smack in the face to our systems — not to mention those who have honored the immigration process (like my wife). This trend towards socialism and redistribution of wealth is also not going to work. Have we already forgotten the failure of communism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union?
So without further ado…
Something to think about!
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 beginning 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.
Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law, St.,Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election:
Number of States won by:
Gore: 19
Bush: 29.Square miles of land won by:
Gore: 580,000
Bush: 2,427,000.Population of counties won by:
Gore: 127 million
Bush: 143 million.Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:
Gore: 13.2
Bush: 2.1Professor Olson adds:
“In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great country. Gore’s territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare…” Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the ‘complacency and apathy’ phase of Professor Tyler’s definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation’s population already having reached the ‘governmental dependency’ phase.
If congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegal and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.
If you are in favor of this amnesty, then ignore this message. If you are not, then pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.
PS: Most of us grew up with the saying ‘history always repeats itself.” The American people really need to think seriously about WHO they will be voting for.
