On Saturday 09 Jan 2010, Dale J. Chatham wrote: > “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.” > > – Ben Franklin
Yeah sure Ben, except where are you leading, or rather driving them to? Towards a degree of exploitation little better than slavery. > "When the people fear the government you have tyranny. When the > government fears the people you have liberty." > > Thomas Jefferson A true thing, except TJ's statement depends upon the rarest sense of all; that of common sense. LeeE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
