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Stimulus for your consideration

A couple of quick items brought to my attention in the past few days:

Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931-2005:

"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."?

(Thanks to Toby J., a good friend who happens to be a charter subscriber of SMI, for that quote.)

Milton Friedman on free enterprise, 1979:

(Thanks to friend Rob Y. for that timely clip.)

And finally, from our own "Keith" discussing Wesley's paradox on the SMI weblog Friday:

"May I suggest that capitalism succeeds when Biblical compassion in society balances its harshness? Without Biblical compassion, capitalism will destroy the culture which once flourished through its practice."

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