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Thursday, April 10, 2008

Perky ?!?

I woke up this morning remembering those who have influenced my life. Friends. Not the typical and always remembered ones. Like parents, Coaches, classmates. But others who shared common interests or knowledge. One of those. Perky, Eldon Perkins. Perky was a lot older than I was. He went to church with us. He was a jack of all trades, carpenter, sheep sheerer, taxidermist. A wise man that tried to always do the right thing. Perky never had a lot. But always freely shared what he had. He gave me my first coyote traps and showed me how to out smart the sly dogs. He helped me mount my first 4 point mule deer. He let me borrow scaffold and tools. Perky was the giver in our relationship and I was the receiver and blessed for it. Perky moved away and passed on. I never got to say thank you Perk. But he knew it. So he didn't care that it wasn't said. We need more Perky's. Kind of like Grandpa's on loan. We can do that can't we.
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Cycle of Democracy

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury. "From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising them the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.

"The average age of the world's greatest 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 apathy;
from apathy to dependence;
from dependency back again into bondage."

Dr. Alexander Tytler, a Scot professor, wrote a scholarly tome, from which this concept comes, called "The Athenian Republic" which was published shortly before the thirteen American colonies gained independence from Britain. "Google" him to learn more.
In publishing a handout on the "Cycle" in 1994 I noted that the national debt had reached a staggering $4.5 trillion dollars. Today (Oct. 1, '07) it is $9.06 trillion! Our forebears thought of debt as slavery. They would be shocked at what their descendants have done. - - John Wrisley.