In a South African context; these are universal truths that have been proved to be true over and over again. Where does South Africa stand in all this.
We have become the biggest welfare state in the world; how long is this sustainable? How much longer will it take before the working class decide it’s just simply not worth it anymore; considering NHI, E-tolls, fuel costs, high taxation etc etc...
Is any sentence below not 100% true?
These are possibly the 5 most important sentences you’ll ever read; unfortunately, most voters don’t know this.
1) You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
2) What one person receives without working for, another parson must work for without receiving.
3) The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4) You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
5) When half the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them; and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.
Winston Churchill: “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is equal sharing of misery...”
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