government give and take

What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that 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, 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 my dear friend, is about the end of any nation.
-- Dr. Adrian Rogers

problem solvers?

"Never expect the people who caused a problem to solve it."
-- Albert Einstein

paper money

"Under a paper-money system, a determined government can always generate higher spending and hence positive inflation."
-- Ben Bernanke