Potent Quotables (updated periodically)

  • "If you like sausages and laws, you should never watch either one of them being made." -- Otto von Bismarck
  • "God who gave us life, gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever." -- Thomas Jefferson
  • "The best way to prove a stick is crooked is to lay a straight one beside it" -- FW Boreham
  • "There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who walk into a room and say, 'There you are' and those who say, 'Here I am'" -- Abigail Van Buren
  • "It was not political rhetoric, mass rallies or poses of moral indignation that gave the people a better life. It was capitalism." -- Thomas Sowell

Monday, November 30, 2009

On Welfare

Ever seen this man in an American welfare line?

Me neither.  Maybe we were doing okay with capitalism the way it was.  I wonder if helping people on welfare who have big screen tv's in their living rooms is like spitting in the face of the man shown above and making a mockery of the freedom and the strength with which God has blessed our nation.  How long will we have these gifts to waste?  Obviously there are people who need help in the world (yes, even in the US), but apparently not all our priorities are sorted correctly. 

You'll have a hard time convincing me that every American deserves to own their own home when that philosophy has almost certainly led to the foreclosures we are experiencing now.  Plus there is such a thing as renting.  Plus there is this man seen above who deserves a meal, a shirt, and pants before you deserve to get help financing a home you can't afford. 

A reworded highschool speech dug out of a box in the attic might be enough for America's "poor" to cast their votes for the Left, but it will take more than empty promises of hope and change to help the man above.
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