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A perspective on the 2000 election
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Nov 14 07:42 UTC 2003 |
" Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline
University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, wrote about the
2000 Presidential election between Al Gore and George Bush:
Population of counties won by Gore 127 million -- by Bush 143
million.
Square miles of country won by Gore 580,000 -- by Bush
2,427,000.
States won by Gore 19 -- by Bush 29.
Murder per 100,000 residents in counties won by Gore 13.2 -- by
Bush 2.1 (not a typo).
Professor Olson adds: "The map of the territory Bush won was
(mostly) the land owned by the people of this great country.
NOT the citizens living in cities in tenements owned by the
government and living off the government." "
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pvn
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response 1 of 101:
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Nov 14 07:46 UTC 2003 |
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It
can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote
themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment
on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the
most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a
democracy
always collapses over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always
followed by a dictatorship."
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