“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.”

–Benjamin Franklin, On the Price of Corn and Management of the Poor, 1766

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In other words, don’t allow the generosity of the taxpayers become a teat from which no one will want to be weaned.

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Hmmmm …

“The instability of our laws is really an immense evil. I think it would be well to provide in our constitutions that there shall always be a twelve-month between the ingross-ing a bill & passing it: that it should then be offered to its passage without changing a word: and that if circum-stances should be thought to require a speedier passage, it should take two thirds of both houses instead of a bare majority.”

–Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, 1787

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Betcha the “Affordable” Care Act wouldn’t have passed under this scenario …

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“A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.”

–Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791

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Question: What do you call a government which, when confronted by the illegality of their actions according to the constitution that they swore to uphold, continue to act in the same way AND try to make up new laws that will allow their actions?

Answer: The reason for the Second American Revolution.

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“There is not in the whole science of politics a more solid or a more important maxim than this — that of all governments, those are the best, which, by the natural effect of their constitutions, are frequently renewed or drawn back to their first principles.”

–James Wilson, Lectures on Law, 1791

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It may be time to draw this government back to our first principles.

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I like the middle of the week. Halfway to the weekend, and I get to take a break and spend time in fellowship with my church family. Can’t beat that, really.

Hope your Wednesday is going well, also. I’l leave you with this:

“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. Do not be too severe upon their errors, but reclaim them by enlightening them. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress, and Assemblies, Judges, and Governors, shall all become wolves.”

–Thomas Jefferson, letter to Edward Carrington, 1787

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Lots of howling from the Hill anymore …

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