"You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
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 the beginning of the end of any nation.
I will stand by my "Pay to Play" statement of the past. You want roads and schools? Pay for them. You want Social Security at the end of the road, or Medicare? Then we have to pay for it. We can't keep cutting out the poor to ensure the rich get richer. Adam Smith, Father of modern economics "You cannot have unabashed Capitalism without a social conscience or your society is doomed to fail." And "No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable."
Some need to be forced to have a sense of social conscience.
"You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
ReplyDeleteWhat 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 the beginning of the end of any nation.
You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."
Adrian Rogers, 1931
I will stand by my "Pay to Play" statement of the past. You want roads and schools? Pay for them. You want Social Security at the end of the road, or Medicare? Then we have to pay for it. We can't keep cutting out the poor to ensure the rich get richer.
ReplyDeleteAdam Smith, Father of modern economics "You cannot have unabashed Capitalism without a social conscience or your society is doomed to fail." And "No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable."
Some need to be forced to have a sense of social conscience.