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This is a very very rough draft on my obituary for the united states of america. I plan on doing alot more work to it, but this is just a place to save it for now.
I sit here on the early morning of the twenty third day of January two thousand nine . It has been three days since one of the most historic events in United States history. A black man has been elected president, but most importantly he is also the first socialist president, and hopefully last. The reason I am writing this is I forsee the downfall of the greatest nation. I hope that I am wrong, but just in case I am right there will be an obituary ready for the United States of America.
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. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been 200 years.
These nations have progressed through this 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 to bondage.
-- Alexander Fraser Tytler (1742-1813)
United States of America seventeen hundred seventy six- two thousand nine
At two hundred thirty two years young the United States of America has passed away. The cause of death was the countrymen.
On the eleventh day of June seventeen hundred seventy six Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston were appointed to a committee to draft a declaration of independence. This was the beginning of the birth of the United States of America. It started as only thirteen colonies, and grew to be fifty states along with nine territorries. from 1776 to 1789 the states were working on becoming an independent country, and even a revolutionary war. In 1789 The first president of the United States of America was elected. In the same year the Constituion was ratified, and two years later the Bill of Rights was also ratified. On the twenty second day of September 1862 announced the Emancipation proclomation, and was put into effect The first day of january 1863. Although slavery was abolished not everyone was considered equal yet. The eighteenth of august 1920 the 19th ammendment was ratified allowing stating that "
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.", although blacks still could not vote white women who had not been allowed to vote could now vote. Quite possibly the reason this is the greatest nation is what happend in ninteen and sixty four. In 1963 our thirty fifth president John F. Kennedy sent a bill to congress that was eventually passed with much controversy. in 1989 the Berlin wall came down which would be symbolized as the defeat of the commuist russia. September 11, 2001 was the first attack on american soil since december 7 1941 that led to worl war II. The attack on 9/11 led to the war on terror that has dismantled Iraq and took down their dictator who was tried and convicted of crimes agaisnt humanity and eventualy hanged to death. Now on this day January 23, 2009 I sit here 3 days after a socialist has been elected I am witnessing the beginning of the end.
I sit here on the early morning of the twenty third day of January two thousand nine . It has been three days since one of the most historic events in United States history. A black man has been elected president, but most importantly he is also the first socialist president, and hopefully last. The reason I am writing this is I forsee the downfall of the greatest nation. I hope that I am wrong, but just in case I am right there will be an obituary ready for the United States of America.
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. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been 200 years.
These nations have progressed through this 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 to bondage.
-- Alexander Fraser Tytler (1742-1813)
United States of America seventeen hundred seventy six- two thousand nine
At two hundred thirty two years young the United States of America has passed away. The cause of death was the countrymen.
On the eleventh day of June seventeen hundred seventy six Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston were appointed to a committee to draft a declaration of independence. This was the beginning of the birth of the United States of America. It started as only thirteen colonies, and grew to be fifty states along with nine territorries. from 1776 to 1789 the states were working on becoming an independent country, and even a revolutionary war. In 1789 The first president of the United States of America was elected. In the same year the Constituion was ratified, and two years later the Bill of Rights was also ratified. On the twenty second day of September 1862 announced the Emancipation proclomation, and was put into effect The first day of january 1863. Although slavery was abolished not everyone was considered equal yet. The eighteenth of august 1920 the 19th ammendment was ratified allowing stating that "
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.", although blacks still could not vote white women who had not been allowed to vote could now vote. Quite possibly the reason this is the greatest nation is what happend in ninteen and sixty four. In 1963 our thirty fifth president John F. Kennedy sent a bill to congress that was eventually passed with much controversy. in 1989 the Berlin wall came down which would be symbolized as the defeat of the commuist russia. September 11, 2001 was the first attack on american soil since december 7 1941 that led to worl war II. The attack on 9/11 led to the war on terror that has dismantled Iraq and took down their dictator who was tried and convicted of crimes agaisnt humanity and eventualy hanged to death. Now on this day January 23, 2009 I sit here 3 days after a socialist has been elected I am witnessing the beginning of the end.