Sense and Common Sense

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Bluegrass — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 03:20:05 GMT

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emilyg — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 23:10:27 GMT

Thanks Todd.

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Todd — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 22:28:03 GMT

Excellent post Emily!

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emilyg — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:29:00 GMT

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

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sully16 — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:41:35 GMT

Someday we are going to depend on this generation to take care of us as a nation, we are doomed.<br />Who will fix the roads ? Who will build the buildings? Who will be the Doctors, Lawyers, engineers?<br />Where will we be if over half the population can't read or write.?<br />They throw food at people instead of Hope, Pride and Dignity.<br />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... [ More ]

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rcbbuckeye — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:43:56 GMT

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

Original Blog Entry: Sense and Common Sense

emilyg — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:37:16 GMT

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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