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Court Case Could Cost Montana Workers' Comp System $200M
West News • February 10, 2006
A looming workers' compensation court case could cost Montana taxpayers $100 million and force a roughly $160 million rate hike for business buying insurance from the Montana State Fund, the ...
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| RE: From Alexander Tyler, historian. | MUD | Feb 13, 2006, 10:00 am |
| From Alexander Tyler, historian. | Hal | Feb 13, 2006, 9:52 am |
| Workers Compensation Benefits for Injured Workers in America | Bill PIke | Feb 11, 2006, 4:33 pm |
| Give me, Give me!! | MUD | Feb 10, 2006, 12:51 pm |
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Subject: From Alexander Tyler, historian.
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have 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 selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage.
Alexander Tyler
(regarding the fall of the Athenian Republic) circa 1810