Thought from history.

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 Edinborough) had this to say about "The
Fall of The Athenian Republic" some 2,000 years prior.

"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:

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."

Does this sound familiar my friends? We need to look no further than Argentina to see this still holds true. Argentina 50 years ago was as productive and fruitful as the USA. Today, after a series of Socialist agendas by various elected officials the country and its citizens continued to vote for free government give a way programs and forgot that SOMEONE had to actually pay for them. Greece is the latest country to discover this truth also.
I pray to USA and our citizens wake up soon enough to learn from these mistakes before our country too becomes merely a memory of what we used to represent.