Quote Originally Posted by ControlFreak1 View Post
“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that, my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.”

--Dr. Adrian Rogers
So basically you advocate the split of the union?

I agree that California, for example, would do far better if it could keep its federal tax dollars to spend as its citizens want instead of seeing them wasted in another part of the union. The other 14 positive contributor states would also probably fare better without the welfare states.