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Words of Wisdom
On 8/6/2009 8:41 AM, Another John wrote:
On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:20:38 -0400, wrote: On 8/6/2009 8:17 AM, Lu Powell wrote: 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. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."* * Adrian Rogers, 1931-2005 Who said anything about *multiplying* wealth, just divide it. Before long the shares get pretty small. -- John H All decisions, even those made by liberals, are the result of binary thinking. Really? 8) |
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