I read this great quote over at Neal’s Nuze and wanted to share it with you. It’s one of the better summaries of the damage socialism has on a population:
“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. 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 is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.”
Isn’t that what we are seeing today in America?
How many Americans think it is morally imperative that we have programs to care for the poor? Any government program is based on the seizure of property from the producers in order to give to the looters.
Oh, I know that makes me a heartless capitalist, right? Those people need those government programs. What are they supposed to do, starve?
What’s wrong with charities? Food banks? Churches?
What’s wrong with allowing people to keep their property and then voluntarily surrendering it to a third party who gives it to those who need it? America is the most charitable nation in the world. We give money like no one else.
We need to get away from this mentality that only through taxation and redistribution can the needy be cared for before it destroys the republic.
