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We have met the enemy, and it is us. Plato worried about a democratic political system where the people controlled the purse strings. The temptation to raid the states’ treasury is strong. Why pay for something when the state can provide it for you? To use an old saw, the people will kill the goose that lays the golden egg. This explains the mess that we are now facing. Too many people want something for nothing, and they demand that the government give it to them. Until the people of this nation stop depending upon the government to provide things that they can provide for themselves, the nation is lost.
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