[ContraryMary]

“We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us ... to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.”

—James Madison

Self-government and the ability to sustain ourselves, not have government sustain us.

[utcamper]

You wrote:
Self-government and the ability to sustain ourselves, not have government sustain us.

Words of wisdom ContraryMary, words of wisdom.

[Lady Heron]

Self-government and the ability to sustain ourselves, not have government sustain us.

In you world all old would be put to death once they could no longer sustain themselves. Think just a little. There are those who still have some semblance of a heart left who want to sustain her today. Even our founders did not kill those who needed others to suport them.