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Originally Posted by backdrifter
You can pay for those groceries. You already do actually! It's called "food stamps."  |
Yep... because if you keep people on the dole, they'll vote for whoever legislates to more easily keep them on the dole. Much better for politicians than when people take responsibility for themselves and subsequently discover that those politicians are robbing them to give to others, often better able to do for themselves than those who had to pay up.
"He who robs Peter to pay Paul is assured of Paul's vote."
"The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else." -- Adrian Rogers (1931)
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