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freshwest

(53,661 posts)
1. Obama is right and Ryan is wrong. Always do the right thing.
Wed Mar 13, 2013, 12:02 AM
Mar 2013

Ryan and his ilk think they can muscle into being winners, but their cause is not just. Obama and Americans will win:

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

~
Franklin D. Roosevelt



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