votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, 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; 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 dependence; from dependency back again into bondage." Pingback | 7.27.09 @ 2:05PM Featured Articles -- July 27, 2009 : The New Nixon: News and Commentary about the President, his Times, and his Legacy Subscribe to the Feed Exclusive Coverage Nixon In The News Top Picks The Soundtrack Of Our Lives By Frank Gannon More On The Ticket... Bless Ben | 7.27.09 @ 2:07PM Thank you for saying what so many are thinking, and have been thinking since this guy got on the national scene. Mark | 7.27.09 @ 2:08PM I love how right wingers say that private health insurers could never compete with the gov't. Just like FedEx and UPS can't compete with the US Post Office, right? Don't confuse keeping private insurers honest so they stop ripping off policy holders to make billions with an inability to compete. Only a moron like Ben would do that. Pingback | 7.27.09 @ 2:09PM ...of Comcast's services.  You remember him from "Ben Stein's Money" or "Ferris Bueller."  And