"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
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Amen. I saw your dad at the Republican booth at the state fair. I'm rooting for him!
I'm living in Oklahoma now, and despite being in the middle of no where I've seen 2 things that assure me this is a great state. First was a big gas station sign that said, "No Ethanol Here!" And second was a big billboard that just said, "Government 'takes from the needy and gives to the greedy' - Ronald Reagan"
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