Posted on 07/11/2011 6:20:53 PM PDT by econjack
These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read:
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealth out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do nothave to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does
Thanks for posting this. This well sums it up. Was there more to no. 5?
# 6: Barak Hussein Obama is an effing idiot
It can all be summarized thusly:
Sharing of the wealth means that, in each successive round of sharing, there will be less to share, until there is eventually nothing left to share.
6. Barrack Hussein Obama is not President of the United States any more.
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5. 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 the beginning of the end of any nation.
5. 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 the beginning of the end of any nation.
Bflr
Four and a half.
Not enough money left to finish #5.
bttt
My Bad...yes there was and one other reader caught it, but I'll repost it here:
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do nothave 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 the beginning of the end of any nation.
Masterful.
What is the difference between this, and a zero sum game?
5. (corollary): When politicians find they can buy votes with public funded programs, and voting blocs realize a politician will reward their support with ‘entitlements’, then the public trust has been effectively auctioned off.
When 50% of voters don’t pay Federal Income Tax and 10% of the voters who do pay taxes, feel guilty about their prosperity, the remaining 40% better be well armed!
6. The only thing more disappointing than the extent to which politicians depend on voters being lazy fools with short memories, is the degree to which they are right.
Where does “He’s dead, Jim.” fit in?
Spot on.
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