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BLOG: Food for thought circa 1931

By John Fedele

Like it or not, the events happening in Wisconsin, and soon to spread to other states that face economic downfall, is the result of government’s attempt to make everyone equal and happy. As well as, save the planet and all therein, except man.

After the great depression, the nation entered into socialism via the New Deal and enactment of Social Security. In 2008 the Nation increased it’s socialist endeavors, with Health Care, stimulus spending, takeovers, banking reforms, etc. Sharing the wealth, or sharing the pain, seemed to be the battle cry. The result so far has been high unemployment and enormous debt.

I am not a smart or wise man. I have searched for a way to express what appears next, but I cannot improve on past history, so I close with this:

These are probably the five best sentences you’ll every read. Our educators should make a lesson plan on this one statement and beat these words into every head, in every class, in every state in these United States of America. And, every elected official should commit it to memory and repeat it out loud every day.

“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

Does this seem like today?

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