The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following 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.
In America, the poor uneducated people are happy because they think everybody else is paying their way, and the rich people are happy because they know they aren't really paying nearly the real rates of taxation being born by lower and middle class people.
posted by Veritas at 13:43
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