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To: expat_panama
“I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.” ― Benjamin Franklin, 1766

When it's easy to survive without working, why bother?

263 posted on 10/07/2016 6:13:56 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: JimRed

>>When it’s easy to survive without working, why bother?

Why bother with the challenge of climbing mountains, reaching out to explore new worlds, and engineering the ability to do those things?

Multiple generations of FAIL have forgotten why - but not everyone.


267 posted on 10/08/2016 6:05:15 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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