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Originally Posted by Guest
I think Ben Franklin said it best:
“I am for doing good to the poor, but...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. I observed...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.”
― Benjamin Franklin
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I love that quote, thanks for sharing. It aptly illustrates the fundamental problem with our liberal progressive friends. When the civil rights movement first started, their mantra was level the playing field and create equal opportunity. Im all for that. Over the last decade this has evolved to equal outcome. Our society has progressed from a merit based system to one based on social justice where the poor are told they are poor because you are "wealthy" and privileged and not due to any lack of effort on their part. In the name of social justice, it has become the obligation of the privileged to give stuff to the less privileged so they can have the same outcome. Today we call Ben's sage advice "The soft bigotry of low expectations." We should be giving "hand ups, not hand outs" JMHO