Political Quotes

“You know, what you are talking about makes all common sense economically. One other thing, and I have heard people talk about this, you can take a look and see that we are not learning from history. You can see that socialized medicine didn't work well in England because you look at the cancer rates there. You take a look at Canada, their socialized medicine system costs them a fortune. When you get sick in Canada, you come down to America to get medical care. And you can see examples. You can see examples of it not working in Massachusetts, not working in Tennessee. And yet we refuse to learn from it. It didn't work in the Soviet Union. We refuse to learn. And to some degree, you can say logically we should be smarter than to do all this socialistic stuff. But there is another argument why it's not a good idea which I have not heard as often. Maybe it's a more emotional argument, but it is true nonetheless. And that is that it's stealing. It's stealing. When the government takes money that it's not authorized constitutionally to take, that it has no moral logical reason why the government should take money and redistribute money, it goes back to the argument between the President and Joe the plumber. And the President made it very clear. He said we think it's the job of government to take money from one person and give it to someone else. Now, when and where does the government have the authority to steal money from one person and give it to someone else?”