Ben had a lot of good things to say on poverty, individual responsibility and economics!
But not one of the Founders would agree with the crap Obama and his socialist trash are pushing, not a one!
"[T]he government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government." - James Madison, 1794 — speech in the House of Representatives, Elliot's Debates
"I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. 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. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, 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." - Benjamin Franklin, 1766 — On the Price of Corn and Management of the Poor, Vindicating the Founders, West, 135
"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value." - Thomas Paine, 1776 — The American Crisis, No. 1, Paine, Collected Writings, Library of America p.91
"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition." - Thomas Jefferson, 781 — Notes on Virginia, Query 19, Writings, Peterson ed., Library of America (290-1)
