[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 37 (Monday, March 15, 2010)]
[House]
[Pages H1411-H1412]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          GOVERNMENT DOES TOO MUCH FOR US, AND TOO MUCH TO US

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Madam Speaker, Dr. Adrian Rogers of Bellevue 
Baptist Church, Memphis, Tennessee, gave some sage advice over 20 years 
ago about the role of government. It is as relevant today it was when 
he first said

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it. He said, ``You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. You cannot 
legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of 
prosperity. What one person receives without working for, another 
person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to 
anybody anything the government does not first take from somebody else. 
When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work 
because the other half is going to take care of them, then the other 
half gets the idea it does no good to work because somebody else is 
going to get what they work for. And that is the beginning of the end 
of any Nation.''
  Madam Speaker, we are in a time when the government does too much for 
us and too much to us in the name of taking care of all of us.
  And that's just the way it is.

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