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Great economic saying
May 13^th, 2009 at 8:00am

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"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.
What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
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 my dear friend, is about the end of any nation.
You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."

A quote by the late Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931-2005

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Reply #1 - May 13^th, 2009 at 11:01am

That's why I would rather support taking children and sterilising single mothers, than allowing them to have dozen of children to different fathers to be permanently on single mother benefit.

I would force unemployed to fill all the vacant positions one way or the other before I would take single work visa migrant.

Obviously one day some measures will be taken to at least stem the flood of underprivileged, but sooner it is done the better.

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locutius Gold Member Offline You can't fight in here! It's the War Room Posts: 1817 Queensland Gender:	Re: Great economic saying Reply #2 - May 13^th, 2009 at 2:50pm Good start there Happy. I'm with you all the way. I also think make prisioners work. Build prisions around factories, or have chain gangs digging canals or farming.
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NorthOfNorth Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 17258 Gender:	Re: Great economic saying Reply #3 - May 13^th, 2009 at 2:57pm locutius wrote on May 13^th, 2009 at 2:50pm: Build prisions around factories, or have chain gangs digging canals or farming. Ah, yes... Democracy's answer to slavery.... (or is that illegal immigration?) So long as they're not working in pie factories.
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Reply #4 - May 13^th, 2009 at 3:11pm

locutius wrote on May 13^th, 2009 at 2:50pm:

Build prisions around factories, or have chain gangs digging canals or farming.

I would be happy to do that too.

With ever increasing population in jail, at least it would give them some taste for what can be done the legal way and if jails could be self-funding or even made profitable we could pay our national debt sooner and have money to make more worthy investments.

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Re: Great economic saying
Reply #5 - May 13^th, 2009 at 3:50pm

Happy wrote on May 13^th, 2009 at 3:11pm:

With ever increasing population in jail, at least it would give them some taste for what can be done the legal way and if jails could be self-funding or even made profitable we could pay our national debt sooner and have money to make more worthy investments.

And turn prison wardens into massas and screws into foremen.

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Reply #6 - May 13^th, 2009 at 4:17pm

NorthOfNorth wrote on May 13^th, 2009 at 3:50pm:

Happy wrote on May 13^th, 2009 at 3:11pm:

With ever increasing population in jail, at least it would give them some taste for what can be done the legal way and if jails could be self-funding or even made profitable we could pay our national debt sooner and have money to make more worthy investments.

And turn prison wardens into massas and screws into foremen.

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Reply #7 - May 13^th, 2009 at 10:17pm

One of the best economic saying was:
"Fifteen men on the dead's man chest yo ho ho and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!"

One of the best economic saying is:
"Give every person a gun yo ho ho and plenty of ammo
Shoot and Evolution will do for the rest yo ho ho and plenty of ammo"

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Amadd Gold Member Offline Mo Posts: 6217	Re: Great economic saying Reply #8 - May 13^th, 2009 at 11:20pm Quote: And turn prison wardens into massas and screws into foremen. That might just be a bit more puductive --oops sorry, productive. Let the pain of ordinary citizens be magnified.
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Reply #9 - Jun 12^th, 2009 at 9:46am

Dealing with the Lowest Bidder

"It is unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little.
When you pay too much, you lose a little money -that is all.
When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the things it was bought to do.
The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot - it can't be done.
If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better."

... John Ruskin

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