1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the
wealthy out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must
work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government
does not first take from somebody else.
4. 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.
5. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
H/T 45 Govt
Monday 12 July 2010
Five of the best sentences you'll ever read
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2 comments:
theo:
the sentences are, in fact, simple verity.
truth ignored by every government in the west, which is why the west faces financial collapse. (and, one may include japan in this group, as well.)
john jay
p.s. with your permission, i would like to link & excerpt this post.
If this was on the final exam of every secondary school economics course, history would be different (or going forward it would change).
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