Since we are quoting Mencken today, I'll offer LightWizard's signature line:
Quote:If a politician found some of his constituents were cannibals, he'd promise them missionaries for lunch. - H. L. Mencken
But none of this is getting us any closer to getting Scrat to explain two things about the quote she considers one of her "favorites."
One: Name some fallen democracies where it can be conclusively shown that they became dictatorships as a result of people in the democracy voting themselves money from the public treasury.
Two: Whence cometh, "The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage."
If those two fundamental aspects of the initial presentation cannot be established -- the Tyler essay and this thread are nothing more than a straw man attempts to mock and disparage safety net programs.
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