By Tom McLaughlin

Ben Franklin said that “God helps those who help themselves,” but government helps those who don’t. In his recent book “After America,” Mark Steyn points out how many Americans have become dependent on government: “ ... by 2004, 20 percent of U. S. households were getting about 75 percent of their income from the federal government [and] another fifth of households ... receive about 40 percent of their income from the feds ...” Is that the kind of republic Franklin had in mind when he worked at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia? No. I don’t think so.

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