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To: VRWCmember
"These are people who pay no income tax.”

“My job is not to worry about those people,” he said. “I’ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.”

40 posted on 09/18/2012 11:01:10 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: Colonel Kangaroo
“My job is not to worry about those people,” he said. “I’ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.”

Reagan never would have said that - he was relentlessly positive and believed in everyone ... which is why the "class warfare" charge never stuck to him.

42 posted on 09/18/2012 11:24:00 AM PDT by JustSayNoToNannies (A free society's default policy: it's none of government's business.)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo
“My job is not to worry about those people,” he said. “I’ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.”

Compare and contrast:

"Let us work to build a nation that is free of racism, full of opportunity, and determined to loosen the creative energies of every person of every race, of every station, to make a better life."
Ronald Reagan
Remarks in Denver, Colorado, at the Annual Convention of the NAACP, June 29, 1981

"How can we love our country and not love our countrymen; and loving them, reach out a hand when they fall, heal them when they’re sick, and provide opportunity to make them self-sufficient so they will be equal in fact and not just in theory?"
Ronald Reagan
Inaugural Address
West Front of the U.S. Capitol, January 20, 1981

47 posted on 09/18/2012 11:52:29 AM PDT by JustSayNoToNannies (A free society's default policy: it's none of government's business.)
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