The Framers get little credit for their understanding of human nature and history. Widespread ignorance of their wisdom is a self-inflicted, and horrible wound.
We don’t feed animals in the wild for the same reason we shouldn’t give food, shelter, money, healthcare, insurance and Obamaphones to the chronically poor. They will become dependent. In Yellowstone National Park, dependency is a bad thing. For Democrats, its their only chance for political survival.
Contrast the American system that he describes, with the Socialist abomination we have today, post FDR, JFK, LBJ & those Republicans, since, who unlike Reagan have not had the guts to even challenge it.
William Flax
You can’t “lead or drive them out of” poverty, when you’ve off-shored all their jobs to the Chinese who are willing to work for $2 a day.
Free traders are enabling big government, big budget deficits and big government debt, even as they destroy America’s industries.
We need to restore the import tariffs and bring industries back to the U.S. Then we take Franklin’s advice to lead and drive them out of poverty.
bkmk