My sister sent this to me.
What a profound short little paragraph that says it all!!!
"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the
wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."
My own side note:
That's pretty much the definition of socialism (communism). Exactly the place that President Obama and the Democratic majority in Congress are dragging us.
Edie
"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the
wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."
My own side note:
That's pretty much the definition of socialism (communism). Exactly the place that President Obama and the Democratic majority in Congress are dragging us.
Edie
