I feel it is time to update Tytler's prediction regarding the life cycles of Democracies. The election on November 4, 2008 shows voters continuing to move toward politicians who promise to give them the most benefits, benefits which lead down the road to bankruptcy. Our country is virtually
bankrupt. At this time, the worst in our financial history, the United States is a nation of citizens who depend on the government for things that should be their own responsibility. We are now in the next to last phase of Tytler's predictions, DEPENDENCY! We are becoming a nation of citizens who cannot or will not function on their own. How many more years before this once great country collapses? What a shame. This is not what our founding fathers had in mind.