Sense and Common Sense

Published: July 21, 2011, 1:37 pm

These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read:

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. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.

5. 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 is the beginning of the end of any nation.

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rcbbuckeye - Jul 21, 2011, 1:43 pm

Not only common sense Emily, but real wisdom. Thanks for sharing.

sully16 - Jul 21, 2011, 4:41 pm

Emily , Not just words of wisdom, I live this everyday , What I see not only angers, but saddens me to no end. We literally have a generation growing up thinking they don't have to work, and this is crossing all the human boundries you can imagine, Rich kids, poor kids , Black or white, it doesn't matter.
Someday we are going to depend on this generation to take care of us as a nation, we are doomed.
Who will fix the roads ? Who will build the buildings? Who will be the Doctors, Lawyers, engineers?
Where will we be if over half the population can't read or write.?
They throw food at people instead of Hope, Pride and Dignity.
It is no secret here how I feel about welfare, but it goes deeper than just taxes, I am now seeing 20 year olds with no children collecting welfare, I am constantly being called into work because kids half my age are calling in, they have more important things to do, you know cedar point, the beach, school will start soon and they will cry that they are broke. You can't get it through their heads that they need to work.
Like I said, whose going to take care of us, The food fairy?

emilyg - Jul 21, 2011, 5:29 pm

rcbbuckeye - thanks. Sully 16 - I'm going to mail your comment to the person that send me the email. Excellent comment.

Todd - Jul 21, 2011, 6:28 pm

Excellent post Emily!

emilyg - Jul 21, 2011, 7:10 pm

Thanks Todd.

Bluegrass - Jul 21, 2011, 11:20 pm

Very good Granny !! Thanks !
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