[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3404]
[From the U.S. 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 as it was 
when he first said 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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