I want to say The Eisenhower administration.
The problem is twofold though. Universal suffrage gives deadbeats the right to vote on how money is spent and they don’t pay into the system. See Alexander Tyltler’s quote on People in democracy realizing they can vote to give themselves money. The other part of the equation is most of our debt comes from the government Ponzi scheme known as Social Security which most of the population has been duped into believing is an actual pension plan. Nobody wants to give that up and for us to fix our budgetary dilemma it will have to go away.
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse [generous gifts] 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.
The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through this sequence:
Bondage to Spiritual Faith —-> Spiritual Faith to Great Courage —-> Courage to Liberty —-> Liberty to Abundance —-> Abundance to Complacency —-> Complacency to Apathy —-> Apathy to Dependence —-> and Dependence back into Bondage.”
We all have heard the phrase "make the world safe for democracy"...truth is democracy is not safe.
It would be shocking to many to learn that our Founding Fathers despised democracy. That's why they established a representative form of government.
Nowhere in the Constitution nor in the state constitutions is "democratic government" mentioned.
Sadly "...to the Republic for which it stands..." seems to be heading toward .." to the Democracy for which it stands, one Nation, under no God...."
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