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And like most things on the internet <span
> it is closer to BS than real… after doing a
little more searching
Sorry for the wasting of bandwidth.
Duke Jones, CMT
Longboat Global
Advisors, LLC
www.longboatglobal.com
www.sectorrotationfund.com
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>-----Original Message-----
From: Duke Jones, CMT
[mailto:Duke.Jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
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Month="3" Day="9" Year="2004">Tuesday, March 09, 2004<font
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To: realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [RT] Historical
Trends and Political fodder....
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>This has been circulating
around the internet and it may be a total BS but the dates and data are close
enough to suggest there might be some food for thought.
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<font size=3 color=black
face="Comic Sans MS">At about the time our original 13 states adopted
their new constitution, in the year 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 prior.<font
color=blue face="Comic Sans MS">
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>"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, (which is) always
followed by a dictatorship."
"The average age of the worlds greatest civilizations from the beginning
of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations
always progressed through the following sequence:
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>From Bondage to spiritual
faith;
>From spiritual faith to great courage;
>From courage to liberty;
>From liberty to abundance;
>From abundance to complacency;
>From complacency to apathy;
>From apathy to dependence;
>From dependence back into bondage."
Professor Joseph Olson of <font
color=blue face="Comic Sans MS">Hamline<font
color=blue face="Comic Sans MS"> <font
color=blue face="Comic Sans MS">University<font
color=blue face="Comic Sans MS"> <font
color=blue face="Comic Sans MS">School<font
color=blue face="Comic Sans MS"> of Law, <font
color=blue face="Comic Sans MS">St. Paul<font
color=blue face="Comic Sans MS">, <font
color=blue face="Comic Sans MS">Minnesota<font
color=blue face="Comic Sans MS">, points out some interesting facts concerning
the most recent Presidential election:
Population of counties won by:
Gore=127 million
Bush=143 million
Square miles of land won by:
Gore=580,000
Bush=22,427,000
States won by:
Gore=19;
Bush=29
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:
Gore=13.2
Bush=2.1
Professor 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 encompassed
those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off government
welfare..."
Olson believes the <font
color=blue face="Comic Sans MS">U.S.<font
color=blue face="Comic Sans MS"> is now somewhere between the "apathy"
and complacency" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy; with
some 40 percent of the nation's population already having reached the
"governmental dependency" phase.<span
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<font size=2 color=blue
face=Tahoma>Duke Jones, CMT
<font size=2 color=blue
face=Tahoma>Longboat Global Advisors, LLC
<font size=2 color=blue
face=Tahoma>www.longboatglobal.com
<font size=2 color=blue
face=Tahoma>www.sectorrotationfund.com
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