REPUBLIC: It's going, going…

Wake up America! We are about to lose our Republic and we must fight to save it. Alexis de Tocqueville in his 19th century observation of America said, “The American Republic will endure until the Congress discovers that it can bribe the people with the people’s money.” We are there.

History shows that the average age of a democracy is about 200 years, during which it goes through the following sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith, to great courage, to liberty, to abundance, to complacency, to apathy, to dependence, back to bondage.

With nearly 50 percent of our people depending upon government for their livelihood and not paying taxes, we are clearly moving into dependence. Too many people are in the wagon, and too few are pulling. It may be too late to save our country, but we must try. We must fight to save the greatest nation on Earth from self-destruction.

DEAN HAAGENSON

Hayden Lake