Today I read through my friend George Allen’s newsletter “The Allen Letter” – it’s for those in the manufactured home industry – and he printed something I’d like to share with you.
from One Man’s Vision, “The Life of Automobile Pioneer RALPH R. TEETOR”, by Marjorie Teetor Meyer, quoting “Horse Sense: The war on private enterprise (the American way of business) shaping up in Washington…is purely socialistic in origin and has nothing to do with our war (WWII) effort, and is aptly described in the Land o’ Lakes News, a dairy trade publication:
1. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift
2. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong
3. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men
4. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich
5. You cannot lift the wage -earner by pulling the wage payer down
6. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income
7. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred
8. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money
9. You cannot build character and courage by taking away initiative and independence
10. You cannot help men by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves
Since this is circa early 1940s, hard on the heals of The New Deal, one might rightly observe, U.S. history appears to be repeating itself big time -again!
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