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99 pewtercoupe
11-12-2012, 2:55pm
"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."
Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931
Fasglas
11-13-2012, 7:18pm
"We've met the enemy... and he is us."

POGO - 1970
RedLS1GTO
11-13-2012, 7:39pm
Pretty much sums it up.

Too bad so many Americans are too damn dense to comprehend...
mrvette
11-13-2012, 7:53pm
"We've met the enemy... and he is us."

POGO - 1970

POGO out of the 50's I think....Walt Kelly, as I recall....
Fasglas
11-14-2012, 1:54am
Pogo first appeared in 1948.

Walt Kelly is correct.

Quote alluded to, 1970.
Craig
11-14-2012, 7:33am
"...You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."
Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931

That's a great quote. But the government isn't so much interested in other people's wealth, the government is interested in growing its own power.
Fasglas
11-14-2012, 12:17pm
That's a great quote. But the government isn't so much interested in other people's wealth, the government is OBSESSED in growing its own power.

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