This  page contains just verifiable facts. Reflect on the information as you wish, make of it what you will.

1. In the 2000 presidential election:
       the population of counties won by: Gore: 127 million; Bush: 143 million;
       the square miles of land won by: Gore: 580,000; Bush: 2,427,000;
       the states won by: Gore: 19; Bush: 29;
       the murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Gore: 13.2; Bush: 2.1

2. About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian  Republic some 2,000 years earlier:

    "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 they can vote themselves  generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always vote 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 world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200  years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:

   1.  From bondage to spiritual faith;

   2.  From spiritual faith to great courage;

   3.  From courage to liberty;

   4. From liberty to abundance;

   5. From abundance to complacency;

   6. From complacency to apathy;

   7. From apathy to dependence;

   8. From dependence back into bondage"

   In 2007 the United States of America will be 220 years old. In my opinion it has entered well into step six and has started its transition to step seven.