The Federalist: Daily Quote 11/5/04

"Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old commandments long treated as out of date, will again be looked upon as a respectable precept; industry will increase, and with it plenty among the lower people; their circumstances will mend, and more will be done for their happiness by inuring them to provide for themselves, than could be done by dividing all your estates among them." --Benjamin Franklin

Such wise men. The only thing I would like to know...did we used to have a welfare system that long ago? What happened to it? How did we get rid of it? Ideas, man, ideas!