Trust Me, I'm A Professor

The worst thing about having a “professor” speak to the media is that it lends credence and credibility to inane commentary. Completely ridiculous statements…I don’t think the end of days will happen until at least 2012 (more when I can gather my thoughts into a coherent essay). And even then it’ll be the whole world going to shits, not just the Amerricuh.

But Barack does have his hands full.

First Wall Street, then the entire American automotive industry, now Ohio is the first state to ask for a bailout. A scant 5 billion. More will surely follow in tow. And as long as we're asking for handouts for debts we have no intention on paying, can I get some loot for my Stafford loans? My four years at Southwest Middle Louisiana State Technical College of Agriculture and Mechanics (SWMLSTCA&MU) were surprisingly expensive.

And then there's this random quote which may or may not have spewed from the mouth of another professor. Or statesman. Or a hobo.

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess 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, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, 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 dependence back again to bondage.

Deep.