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Ah, the wisdom of our Founding Fathers

The further we get away from what they taught concerning limited government and personal liberty, the more pathetic we become as a nation....

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I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer.

Benjamin Franklin, On the Price of Corn and Management of the Poor, November 1766

Re: Ah, the wisdom of our Founding Fathers

Yep. It takes about a 2nd grade education to understand that. As some profess themselves to be wise, they become fools.