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They have no solutions only expansion of the current problems.
What was that quote from Ronald Reagan about the worst thing one could hear from the government?
We can start with Gerald Ford:
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have."
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have."
I always think of this quote when it comes to our own government.
Milton Friedman recalled traveling to an Asian country in the 1960s and visiting a worksite where a new canal was being built. He was shocked to see that, instead of modern tractors and earth movers, the workers had shovels. He asked why there were so few machines. The government bureaucrat explained: “You don’t understand. This is a jobs program.” To which Milton replied: “Oh, I thought you were trying to build a canal. If it’s jobs you want, then you should give these workers spoons, not shovels.”
I mean this is the reason government uses for everything when it actually has another hidden agenda when the left is in charge. Welfare is for helping the people when it really is for votes of the lower class and keep them under there control.
Milton Friedman recalled traveling to an Asian country in the 1960s and visiting a worksite where a new canal was being built. He was shocked to see that, instead of modern tractors and earth movers, the workers had shovels. He asked why there were so few machines. The government bureaucrat explained: “You don’t understand. This is a jobs program.” To which Milton replied: “Oh, I thought you were trying to build a canal. If it’s jobs you want, then you should give these workers spoons, not shovels.”
I mean this is the reason government uses for everything when it actually has another hidden agenda when the left is in charge. Welfare is for helping the people when it really is for votes of the lower class and keep them under there control.
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