Abe Lincoln
Feb 12th, 2012 by The Outsider
Article by my friend Clyde.
“ You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by encouraging class hatred.
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away man’s initiative and independence.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.”
– Abraham Lincoln–
Since these simple truths were recognized and written more than 150 years ago ask yourself ….just how many stupid pills did our current, self indulgent politicians and imaginary leaders have to take to bring us to this:
1. Discourage thrift by consistently borrowing to spend.
2. Weaken the strong by encouraging government dependency, not individual self reliance.
3. Pull down the wage payer by regulation, taxation, and litigation.
4. Encourage class hatred by affirmative action, quota’s, and discrimination.
5. Destroy the rich by demonizing those that have been successful and claiming they cheated, stole and lied to get ahead.
6. Spend more than you earn by living on plastic and minimum payments.
7. Take away initiative and independence by 99 weeks of unemployment; and more laws, rules, and regulations that they do not understand, and that we the people do not want or need.
8. You cannot permanently help people by disability payments to those who are not disabled, just parasites . Or by welfare to those who could work but won’t get out of bed. Or by calling alchoholism and drug addiction a sickness instead of a choice, when even the Possum, George Jones, knows the difference.
9. You cannot truly help anyone until they want to help themselves.
10. Hunger motivates.
Clyde