Barack Obama & Benjamin Franklin

otisptoadwater wrote: “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.”

- Ben Franklin

Interesting to see looters more than 200 years ago.

archer wrote: yeah, well talking politics tends to bring out the extremes in all of us....in order to make our point we go to the far right or left just so we won't be accused of being too centrist or fraternizing with the enemy.

This quote definitely sets you apart from the flaming left Politics also brings out the hate and the blanket generalizations that will prevent us from ever finding common ground.

Heisenberg wrote: This quote definitely sets you apart from the flaming left Politics also brings out the hate and the blanket generalizations that will prevent us from ever finding common ground.

You noticed that too....